Overview

A Game Framework is an integral Unigine component written in UnigineScript, that supports building and running of various Unigine-based applications. It provides fast and handy interaction between 3 fundamental game logic concepts: Game, Level and Entity.

Technically, framework executes the following operations:

• Associates Unigine nodes with Entities
• Associates Unigine worlds with Levels
• Initialize the Entity parameters with the Property file
• Manages the objects for Entities
• Provides Global Game context across all Levels
• Executes the periodic call of the function and its automatic time spreading over several frames (required for logic optimization)
• Provides an event handling system
• Updates Entities in the most optimal way

Game Framework also includes a Game Framework Editor plugin, which can be helpful to:

• Manage Game, Levels, Entities
• Attach Entities to Unigine nodes and place them in the world (by a simple drag&drop operation)
• Build the inheritance hierarchy for Entities
• Generate Property files for Entities
• Launch the Game quickly

Before starting to work with Game Framework, make sure that you are aware of the following Unigine engine sections:

• UnigineScript basics and principles of object-oriented programming
• System, World and Editor scripts
• Structure of the world and corresponding *.world and *.cpp files
• Nodes and their hierarchy
• Node references
• Unigine Properties and their inheritance principles