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Render Components

Source file: client/include/components/RenderComponent.hpp

Purpose: Enumerate the SFML render components: sprites, shaders, animated sprites, text, and particles.

Drawable​

  • Sprite path spritePath (prefixed with assets/images/), layering z_index, opacity, rotation, and tint color.
  • Owns SFML resources (texture, sprite) with isLoaded to avoid redundant loads.
  • Non-copyable; move operations rebind the sprite to the moved texture to keep visuals intact.

Shader​

  • Fragment shader description: shaderPath (prefixed assets/shaders/), shared pointer shader, uniforms_float, and isLoaded flag.
  • InitializeShaderSystem binds texture to sf::Shader::CurrentTexture and uploads provided uniforms.

AnimatedSprite​

  • Animation map (animations name → Animation), current animation key currentAnimation, optional animationQueue for temporary overrides.
  • Playback state: animated, elapsedTime.
  • Animation holds spritesheet path (prefixed), frame dimensions, totalFrames, current_frame, frameDuration, loop, first_frame_position, offset, plus SFML texture / sprite and isLoaded.
  • Main API: AddAnimation, SetCurrentAnimation, GetCurrentAnimation (const and non-const) used by animation/render systems.

Text​

  • Text content content, font path fontPath (prefixed assets/fonts/), characterSize, color, opacity, z_index, local offset.
  • SFML resources: sf::Text text, sf::Font font, is_loaded guard. Non-copyable; move rebinds the text to the moved font to avoid dangling pointers.

ParticleEmitter / Particle​

  • Particle: position, velocity, remaining lifetime and maxLifetime snapshot.
  • ParticleEmitter: emission toggles (active, emitting), optional duration, container particles (capped by maxParticles), emissionRate and accumulator, color gradient (startColor, endColor), spawn offset, physical params (lifetime, speed, base direction, spreadAngle, gravity, emissionRadius), size interpolation (start_size, end_size), render z_index, and vertices (point list) for drawing.
  • Intended to be consumed by a particle system to spawn, update, and render GPU-friendly points.