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| proton_entity [2010/10/26 14:16] – seth | proton_entity [2011/01/11 23:59] – seth |
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| If you take a look at Entity.h you'll see some functions but nothing about thinking/updating or drawing. So what can an entity do? | If you take a look at Entity.h you'll see some functions but nothing about thinking/updating or drawing. So what can an entity do? |
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| Well, not much, alone. It's fairly lightweight at about 200 bytes. | Well, not much, alone. It's fairly lightweight at about a 200 byte memory footprint. |
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| The power comes from Components. Components can (but don't have to) render, think, and process input. | The power comes from Components. Components can (but don't have to) render, think, and process input. |
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| Well, we see the logo there. If you looked inside of CreateOverlayEntity, you'd see it creates an Entity, and adds a RenderOverlay component to it and sets some properties. (All of which are storied in either entity's VariantDB (like pos2d, color, scale2d, etc) or the components VariantDB if it is specific to the component. (properties like fileName, and framex, framey) | Well, we see the logo there. If you looked inside of CreateOverlayEntity, you'd see it creates an Entity, and adds a RenderOverlay component to it and sets some properties. (All of which are stored in either entity's VariantDB (like pos2d, color, scale2d, etc) or the component's VariantDB if it is specific to the component. (properties like fileName, and framex, framey) |
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