For two days now I've been wracking my brain trying to remember a technical programming term for an autonomous video game object, broadly analogous to object-oriented in business programs.
Help!
(NB not relevant to current WIP, but to do with a story idea I have rattling around in the vast emptiness of my skull.)
AJ
Mob? (Generally refers to monsters and the like; short for "mobile". It's become a general gamer term, but I first encountered it in MUD programming back in 19*mumblemumble*.)
I always thought it was "monster or beast" but that could have been a backronym in play.
I could also go for it having been a Mobile OBject rather than just MOBile being invoked.
Also worth mentioning: Doodads
autonomous video game object
I'm not sure what you mean by autonomus, but that ussaly refer to NPC, the guidance would be done by some IA called a bot.
Movement for non autonomous object would rely solely on the physics engine.
Othere possible terminology:
-component
-display object
-rig (Mesh + bones + bones hierarchy + constraints)
But each game engine framework has it's own vocabulary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines
I think the term mots closely resembling the one I'm looking for is 'bot', although I suspect you're right in that the exact term is probably specific to a particular video game engine.
By coincidence, the answer to one of today's paper's quick crossword clues was 'sprite'.
AJ
By coincidence, the answer to one of today's paper's quick crossword clues was 'sprite'.
Was it looking for a computer sprite, a mythological sprite, or the soda brand?
Was it looking for a computer sprite, a mythological sprite, or the soda brand?
I think it was the one that led him into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike ...
Well, since someone else got all your base and it now belong to them, I want all your treble.
But it is all about that bass, no treble ...
A group of small balls of fur playing alto saxophones...
Treble with tribbles
A group of small balls of fur playing alto saxophones...
Treble with tribbles
Just transport them to the Klingon engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all ...
Sprite? (Maybe outdated.)
Thanks.
That's a term I haven't heard for a while. I think you may be right about it being outdated, but it's definitely a forerunner of the technology I'm thinking of.
AJ
Sprite gets my vote. I think it was one of the early Atari machines that had some dedicated sprite handling hardware.
Sprite gets my vote. I think it was one of the early Atari machines that had some dedicated sprite handling hardware.
My somewhat addled memory says my Atari 800 had sprite handling software and the key was to move things during the vertical retrace...but that was a LONG time ago. :-)
My somewhat addled memory says my Atari 800 had sprite handling software and the key was to move things during the vertical retrace...but that was a LONG time ago. :-)
Other "home computers" of the time (late 1970's early 1980's) including Commodore's C64 and Texas Instruments TI99/4A also had what were called "sprites".
Way back when images were in fixed locations set on either the screen or the background while an image that moved around the screen to any position (with the exception of the cursor) were called sprites, and most often found in games.
