Our game went through a bit of a redesign in the last couple of weeks. This change altered how enemies and players were created and controlled. Thus, since my projectile system is based on the interactions between the two, I had to redesign the projectile manager a bit.
First, our new system is designed around adding components to a base character class. Therefore, what defines a player or an enemy is what components are attached. Therefore, I made my ProjectileManager class a component to be attached to either a player or enemy. Porting my code into this format wasn't too difficult.
The next step was for the ProjectileManager to spawn arrow projectiles for enemy guards to fire. Unfortunately, the way objects were drawn was altered in the redesign, so I had some trouble porting my code. However, one of our team members, Ron, had made a handy little class that handled the drawing of a model with our new system.
After all that, the logic still worked like a charm, and adding the new component to characters is rather easy now. Thus, I'm glad with how this worked out, and am excited to expand upon my ProjectileManager to handle different types of projectiles.
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