BaseObject

Description

In Orxonox, there are some classes refered to be "objects". In this context an object is not an instance of a class, but a class beeing relevant for the game-logic. Examples of objects are: A ship (but not the model), a particle effect (but not the particles themselfes), a trigger (which might be totally abstract like "finish the game after 20 minutes"), a HUD (but not the graphpics). Examples of classes not beeing objects are: Interfaces (but objects might inherit from them), graphical components (meshes, textures, sprites, billboards, …), helper classes (Timer, …), classes in external libraries (network, autio, core, …).

To differ objects from other classes, they derive from BaseObject. They might have other parents like interfaces or listener, but BaseObject must be one of the parents. The other way round you can cast every object to BaseObject, even if the only thing you know is it's a derivative of an interface like Tickable or Synchronisable?.