SFML Game Development

Composing our world

Up to now, we have taken a look at entities and the scene graph, we know how to render and update objects in the world, and we have seen how views and scrolling work. We have a concrete knowledge about many building blocks, now it is time to assemble them to shape a model of our fictional world.

Completely unforeseen, we create a new class called World. On one side, our World class must contain all the data related to rendering:

• A reference to the render window
• The world's current view
• A texture holder with all the textures needed inside the world
• The scene graph
• Some pointers to access the scene graph's layer nodes

On the other hand, we store some logical data:

• The bounding rectangle of the world, storing its dimensions
• The position ...