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Beginning C++ Game Programming - Second Edition

By : John Horton
Book Image

Beginning C++ Game Programming - Second Edition

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

The second edition of Beginning C++ Game Programming is updated and improved to include the latest features of Visual Studio 2019, SFML, and modern C++ programming techniques. With this book, you’ll get a fun introduction to game programming by building five fully playable games of increasing complexity. You’ll learn to build clones of popular games such as Timberman, Pong, a Zombie survival shooter, a coop puzzle platformer and Space Invaders. The book starts by covering the basics of programming. You’ll study key C++ topics, such as object-oriented programming (OOP) and C++ pointers, and get acquainted with the Standard Template Library (STL). The book helps you learn about collision detection techniques and game physics by building a Pong game. As you build games, you’ll also learn exciting game programming concepts such as particle effects, directional sound (spatialization), OpenGL programmable shaders, spawning objects, and much more. Finally, you’ll explore game design patterns to enhance your C++ game programming skills. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to build your own games with exciting features from scratch
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Chapter 23: Before You Go...

Coding the loadLevel function

To be clear, this function is part of the Engine class, although it will delegate much of its work to other functions, including those of the LevelManager class that we just built.

First, let's add the declaration for the new function, along with some other new pieces of code, to the Engine.h file. Open the Engine.h file and add the highlighted lines of code shown in the abbreviated snapshot of the Engine.h file, as follows:

#pragma once
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
#include "TextureHolder.h"
#include "Thomas.h"
#include "Bob.h"
#include "LevelManager.h"
using namespace sf;
class Engine
{
private:
    // The texture holder
    TextureHolder th;
    // Thomas and his friend, Bob
    Thomas m_Thomas;
    Bob m_Bob;
    // A class to manage all the levels
    LevelManager...