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Graphics / [SOLVED] Are SFML shapes suitable for collision detection?

« on: July 22, 2013, 07:30:12 pm »

Hello,

I want to use SFML shapes for collision detection to save me some work and for this purpose I won't be using them for rendering (except for maybe debugging). Since I don't know much about OpenGL or the underlying code I am just wondering if they are lightweight enough for this purpose.

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System / Resource and ResourcePtr

« on: August 03, 2009, 06:05:36 pm »

Hello I'm new to SFML and C++ and I'm trying to make my own resource manager to get some experience and decided to use the built-in Resource and ResourcePtr classes.

After struggling a bit I realized that whenever you try to access the resource of a pointer it will always return a constant of that resource. Now, const correctness is something I usually don't bother with so I am a little lost.

How can you use resource pointers if it always returns a constant? Are mutators impossible in this situation?

It seems like a really useful feature but a little contrained. I guess if I have to I'll do my own reference counting with raw pointers or use another library, but I'd really like to use the built-in features if I could.