Objects::GameObject

GameObject in Unified Engine

The GameObject class represents individual entities within the Unified Engine. It acts as the primary way to manage in-game items, characters, or other interactive entities. Every GameObject in the engine can have a visual representation defined by its Mesh, and it also can have various behaviors defined by components.

Class Components

Protected Members:

• VAO, VBO, EBO: Buffers used for storing vertex data for rendering the GameObject.

• mesh: Represents the shape and layout of the object.

• ModelMatrix: Represents the object's position, rotation, and scale in 3D space.

• GenerateVAOBuffers(): Function to initialize and bind vertex data to GPU buffers.

• NoShader: A flag to check if the object has an associated shader.

• transformOld: Stores the previous state of the GameObject's transformation.

Public Members:

• transform: Represents the current position, rotation, and scale of the GameObject.

• Name: A name for the GameObject.

• Tag: A tag for additional categorization or identification.

• shader: Points to the ShaderObject that the GameObject uses for rendering.

Constructors & Destructor:

• GameObject(Mesh _mesh, ShaderObject* _shader): Constructs a GameObject with a specified Mesh and ShaderObject.

• GameObject(GameObject* _parent, Mesh _mesh, ShaderObject* _shader): Constructs a GameObject with a parent, a specified Mesh, and a ShaderObject.

• ~GameObject(): Destructor for the GameObject object.

Methods:

• Update(): Method to update the GameObject's state each frame.

• Render(): Method to render the GameObject to the screen.