ResourceFile Class

[bensch]

FILE

The ResourceManager is really nice, but the entire interface could use some update…

IDEA

The best thing to handle static loaded data to interface it with a file: A File is a Resource loaded from a Disk (or any other medium) and reference it within the Game whenever a new file is loaded, it is first checked, if the File has already been loaded (what the ResourceManager does). Why to implement this, is that the ResourceManager must not anymore have many special cases within itself, but that it can outsource special behaviour into the many different formats that can be loaded.

Also to Make a Copy of a Resource, and change ONLY the copy is impossible with the ResourceManager, one could not even load a file a second time….

Implementation

• these will become a File (isA File)
  • SoundBuffer
  • ObjModel
  • MD2Model
  • Music
  • Textures …

• Resources will become Files
• The ResourceManager will search through File and not through internal lists.

[patrick]

You can also name it a Resource, what probably comes a little closer to the real beheviour. But this isn't actualy important.

[bensch]

Reimplemented over the Resource/ResourceManager approach

Texture example:

Texture → ResourceTexture ← Resource

Texture, what to load Resource where to find it, and Storage of the Object

[bensch]

Fixed, and back in the trunk

[bknecht]

Milestone Features deleted