Actor

Represents an entity in the scene that can have components and interact with the world. The Actor class manages its own state, transform, components, and can be attached to a Scene. To create a new Actor you just have to create a class that hinerits from Actor. If you want you can use the EmptyActor class.

Useful functions

Actor(Vector3D position = 0, Vector3D size = 1, Quaternion rotation = Quaternion(0, 0));

• Contructor of an Actor.

virtual void Start();

• This function is called when the map is load or reload.

virtual void Update();

• This function is called each tick.

virtual void Destroy();

• This function is called when the actor is destroyed.

void AttachScene(Scene& scene);

• This function can be used to change the attached scene of an actor.

void AddComponent(Component* component);

• This function can be used if you want to add a component to an actor.

• When you create a new component this function will automatically be called.

void RemoveComponent(Component* component);

• This function can be used to remove a component from an actor.

void SetActive(ActorState state);

• This function can be used to change the actor state.

• There is 3 states : Active, Paused, Dead.

void SetPosition(Vector3D pPosition);

• This function can be used to change the world location of the actor.

void SetSize(Vector3D pSize);

• This function can be used to change the world scale of the actor.

void RotateX(float pAnle);

• This function can be used to rotate the actor around the X axis.

void RotateY(float pAngle);

• This function can be used to rotate the actor around the Y axis.

void RotateZ(float pAngle);

• This function can be used to rotate the actor around the Z axis.

std::vector<Component*> GetComponents() const;

• Returns all the components attached to this actor

ActorState GetState();

• Returns the state of the actor.

Scene& GetScene();

• Returns the scene bind to this actor.

TransformComponent& GetTransformComponent();

• Returns the transform component of the actor.

inline RigidbodyComponent* GetRigidBody()

• Returns the rigidbody (if there is one) attached to this actor.

void SetTag(std::string pTag);

• Set the tag of the actor.

inline std::string GetTag()

• Returns the tag of the actor.

bool HasTag(std::string tag);

• Returns if an actor has a specified tag.

template<typename  C>

C* GetComponentOfType() const

• Returns a component of a specified type.