Game Client Architecture

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• Register user defined callback functions.• Create a window.• Attach a swap chain to the window.• Run users OnCreateDevice() callback function.• Main message loop for translating and

dispatching mouse and keyboard events. When there are no messages to process, call the users OnFrameRender() callback function.

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• Create an object for the display adapter. Current support is for a D3D10Device.

• Create a render target and bind it to the swap chain of the window created by the System Core.

• Create a depth stencil buffer.

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• Create a scene graph for objects that are instanced multiple times. monsters, trees, etc.– INode class: Basic component for the scene graph.• Public virtual destructor: Allows derived classes to

specify cleanup operations appropriate for their object.• Private std::vector<INode*> m_children: Creates a list

of child nodes for the current node.

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• Create an asset class for all objects that are created only once. meshes, textures, etc.– IAsset class: Basic component for the asset class.

• Public virtual destructor: Allows derived classes to specify cleanup operations appropriate for their object.

• Private std::vector<INode*> m_children: Creates a list of child nodes for the current node.

• Derived classes from IAsset can be used in the game client without recompiling the game core and are dynamically resolved at runtime.

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