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Increasing flexibility of a data passing system in a component based entity system

I'm creating a Component orientated system for a small game I'm developing. The basic structure is as follows: Every object in the game is composed of a "GameEntity"; a container holding a vector of ...
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C++ formatted serialization [closed]

I've decided it's time to implement serialization in my simple engine but this has caused me many headaches for the past couple of days/weeks. My engine uses an entity/component based approach similar ...
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Game-components and memory management

I'm stitching together the workings of a component based game engine, and as such have been deeply reading into many aspects of both game engine architecture and a fair amount of opinionated theory of ...
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Component-based object, traversal?

I'm working on a small C++ component based game engine, as such... Object Foo might extend GameObject and x number of component interfaces, like Renderable and/or Physical. So let's assume that Foo ...
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Compile-time checking for component-based, data-driven games

This is not a specific question, but rather someone who is looking for opinions about a typical design problem. In a component based data-driven games, I've often seen something similar to the ...
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SceneManagers as systems in entity system or as a core class used by a system?

It seems entity systems are really popular here. Links posted by other users convinced me of the power of such system and I decided to try it. (Well, that and my original code getting messy) In my ...
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Handling game logic events by behavior components

My question continues on topic discussed here I have tried implementing attribute/behavior design and here is a quick example demonstrating the issue. class HealthAttribute : public ActorAttribute { ...
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Component based design, but components rely on each other

I've begun stabbing at a "Component Based" game system. Basically, each entity holds a list of components to update (and render) I inherit the "Component" class and break each game system into it. ...
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Component-based design: handling objects interaction

I'm not sure how exactly objects do things to other objects in a component based design. Say I have an Obj class. I do: Obj obj; obj.add(new Position()); obj.add(new Physics()); How could I then ...
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Component Based Design DLL

I'm undecided on a design decision. Now for my game I was thinking on splitting components into separate dlls. This would allow for a more modular approach, especially when in need of updates. On ...
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GameObject and Components

I am creating a relatively simple game engine in C++ and Qt. I am using Irrlicht for graphics, and as of now, I will not be using any physics or audio libraries. For time's sake, I am using ...
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What are the disadvantages of using multiple inheritance to implement components?

I've been doing research on component-based game engines and would like to use that model for future game projects. From what I gather, objects in a component-based system are just collections of ...
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Designing generic render/graphics component in C++?

I'm trying to learn more about Component Entity systems. So I decided to write a Tetris clone. I'm using the "style" of component-entity system where the Entity is just a bag of Components, the ...
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C++ entity component system framework [closed]

I have found several entity system frameworks for other languages besides C++, like Ash and Rush for ActionScript and Artemis for Java and C#. My question is whether there exists a framework like one ...
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Open source component-based game engines? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Are there existing FOSS component-based frameworks? What open source game engines with component-based design of game objects do you know? And which best of them? I mean ...
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Suitable in memory storage library to store components for entity systems

I am studying entity indexed components and came up with a naive C++ implementation which just iterates over all entity "hash tables" and applies update/delete/insert functions in place. I'm having ...
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Entity components interaction

I have two components I'd like to connect them to each other. 1. PhysicalComponent - containing rigid body(position, rotation, velocity) and is holding body from physics engine. 2. GraphicsComponent - ...
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Am I on the right track with this component architecture?

I've recently decided to revamp my game architecture to get rid of deep class hierarchies and replace them with configurable components. The first hierarchy I'm replacing is the Item hierarchy and I ...
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Is an entity/component system appropriate for this geometry handling system?

I'm working on a Component/Entity-System based game engine atm. And I have this little dilemma. I have simple geometrical structures which might be downloaded or created in game at some point. These ...
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Entity/Component Systems in C++, How do I discover types and construct components?

I'm working on an entity component system in C++ that I hope to follow the style of Artemis (http://piemaster.net/2011/07/entity-component-artemis/) in that components are mostly data bags and it's ...
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Searching a map fewer times

... or better yet, removing the need to search the map altogether. I'm either looking for suggestions on how to optimize my code, or a change in design. In my component-based entity system, the ...
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Component entity system - Updates and call orders

In order to get components to be able to update every frame (and leave this functionality out of components that don't need to) I got the idea to make an UpdateComponent component. Other components ...
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Component based entity system API naming problems

My engine uses a component-based entity system internally, and I want to bind it to Lua for scripting. Now, I want to save people who write scripts for it typing work. In C++, to set the position of ...
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Designing a component based game

I'm writing a shooter (like 1942, classic 2D graphics) and I'd like to use a component based approch. So far I thought about the following design: Each game element (airship, projectile, powerup, ...
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Entity system in Lua, communication with C++ and level editor. Need advice

I have a 2D basic editor written in Qt, and I'm in the process of adding entities. I want the editor to be able to receive RTTI information from entities to change properties, create some logic being ...
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Register Game Object Components in Game Subsystems? (Component-based Game Object design)

I'm creating a component-based game object system. Some tips: GameObject is simply a list of Components. There are GameSubsystems. For example, rendering, physics etc. Each GameSubsystem contains ...