Game Character Custom Class?

[mikelowe]

Hi Everyone,

I am wondering how to create a custom class for a game character. Do I use an NSObject? I'm really confused about custom classes.

I want to have a character that I can spawn multiple times on the screen, and have them all behave in the same way.

Right now I am using UIImageViews in my games, but i need to be able to keep track of each character and destroy them individually as necessary.

Please help me

-Michael

[mobidangel]

Originally Posted by mikelowe

Hi Everyone,

I am wondering how to create a custom class for a game character. Do I use an NSObject? I'm really confused about custom classes.

I want to have a character that I can spawn multiple times on the screen, and have them all behave in the same way.

Right now I am using UIImageViews in my games, but i need to be able to keep track of each character and destroy them individually as necessary.

Please help me

-Michael

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[Zanzibar7]

Originally Posted by mikelowe

I want to have a character that I can spawn multiple times on the screen, and have them all behave in the same way.

Right now I am using UIImageViews in my games, but i need to be able to keep track of each character and destroy them individually as necessary.

I'm doing the same type of thing in my game. You need to make a UIImageView for each character you put on the screen, then put them all into an array, then use a for loop to go through the array and do your actions for each character. Then when you want to destroy one, you just remove it from the array and the view. If you want example code for this, I made a post titled "need help looping through an array". Does this help?

[Naughty_Ottsel]

From what I gather you could subclass a UIImageView which instantly gives you all of the methods and properties in a UIImageView anyway plus your own.

[mikelowe]

Thanks everyone! this is exactly the kinds of things I need. I will try subclassing a UIImageView. I think thats more of what I'm going for. I think I will give the array method a try as well.

-michael

[jdunehew]

Originally Posted by mikelowe

Thanks everyone! this is exactly the kinds of things I need. I will try subclassing a UIImageView. I think thats more of what I'm going for. I think I will give the array method a try as well.

-michael

no don't do that. Add a new file to your project and just make it a class. You don't need a view for a class you want to make.

This is exactly what you need right here: Objective-C creating objects, methods and variables

Teaches you how to create the class and create new objects of the class.