[xoreos-devel] Proposal of a new class design for KotOR games

[Robert Hall]

I've been thinking that games like NWN/NWN2 will need a party management
class to handle formations, group conversations, and leadership. That would
need to be stored at the module level so it can handle area transitions.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 7:06 PM Vsevolod Kremianskii <vkremianskii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm currently evaluating how party members and areas work in KotOR games,
> and this is what it looks like:
>
> Area – basically, a container of creatures. Creates, destroys and manages
> interactions with them.
> Module – owns the area, but also owns the party members and controls the
> player character.
> Creature – represents both the physical object within an area and it's
> characteristics (stats, equipment, etc).
> CharacterGenerationInfo – a structure describing RP and visual attributes
> of the player character. Interestingly, it is buried in the GUI folder
> and knows how to create both the player creature and the player model.
>
> Here is the problem I'm having with this design: party members need to be
> managed separately. Currently, they are not interactable and cannot execute
> actions. Also, we have an unnecessary circural dependency between the
> Creature class and CharacterGenerationInfo.
>
> What I propose instead is the following:
>
> Creature class should only represent the physical object within an area.
> All stats and equipment information should be moved to a separate structure
> (CreatureInfo?).
>
> All creatures should be owned by an area. Module should only own the info
> of the party members and recreate their characters on every area change.
>
> Management of the party leader should probably be moved to a separate
> class (PlayerController?).
>
> CharacterGenerationInfo should be moved outside the GUI folder and should
> not have responsibility of creating a character or a model.
>
> Any thoughts on this, DrMcCoy?
>
>
>
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  Bob

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