[Geesu]

Well basically I have written a module for amxx that would help the next version of war3ng I release.

In theory I wanted to create it so that I could "plug-in" the sourcemod includes + files and everything would be fine and dandy.

Of course that is not at all what happened, and I'm pretty far along with the module.

So I wanted to take a step back and think a little more in depth about it. I realize I need the following classes:

PlayerManager
- contains Player

RaceManager - manages the races that are registered/assigned
- contains Race (Represents a Race object, should only be 8 of these)
- contains Skill (Skill represents a single skill)

EventManager/MODHandler ?
- In theory I wanted this to be like the common base class that all mods would need to use. Then each mod would have their own class with mod-specific things. Like cstrike2 would hook into the metamod:s api etc.... While cstrike and dod would hook into the amxx api. This sounds good in my theory, but I actually don't know how to implement this, any ideas?
- this should also contain like MOTDHandler, MenuHandler, which will handle menus and motds etc... (of course this will only be different from 1.6 and source)

Timer
- used for executing functions later in time.

I'm attaching a UML Diagram I made in visio, which I now feel is completely wrong.

If anyone has any insights as to how I should go about designing this please give me advice, I do not want to create this and it be crap, I'd like it to be a "model" or something clean + good to look at which will help others.

Thanks!
Josh

[BAILOPAN]

UML is overcomplicated and confusing to read.

IRaceManager as a container for IRace
IEventManager as a container for IEvent
ITimer as a container for ITask

abstract the managers through IWarcraftAPI

The important thing is separating game logic from game specific logic. For example, if in the main handler you must give someone health, write a SetHealth function in one file, and keep the mod specific implementation in another file.

[Geesu]

Originally Posted by BAILOPAN The important thing is separating game logic from game specific logic. For example, if in the main handler you must give someone health, write a SetHealth function in one file, and keep the mod specific implementation in another file.

Ok with that being said, should I assume that I can make it so I only need ONE compile.

Then the appropriate "file" would be used if that game was the one that was running? i.e. DOD or CS