Items
The items are one of the most fundamental part to most videos games. Within our game, these items will be used to display ingredient and used to make meals and give them to customers. These items are built through the entity-component system using an entity with multiple components which allows the functionality that we need.
All of the spawning of the items should occur in ItemFactory where all items including meals and ingredients are spawned individually. Everything starts with a template Item creator which will add the component shown in the image to the empty entity
If you want to create an item, you would create a method (example: createFish()) where you will need to call that template item creator function and add a texture render to load the image and Ingredient Component to give it some functionality.
If you want to add some items together to make a meal which will be servable to the customer, you will do the same thing as an item however use a meal component to give the functionality a meal requires. To get more info on how meal and ingredient component differ, refer to the UML diagram furthur below in the document
The item you want to create will either be a meal or ingredient for the meal.
The item components is a template class which has very basic functionality and is utilized by meal and ingredients for it's simplicity. It consist of a randomly generated ID, a name, weight and type. There are getter for all these however no setter as these function should not be changed after initialized.
The IngredientComponent is a child of the ItemComponent which will be used for all individual food items which will be used within the game. It can be defined to be chopped and/or/neither cooked and can be altered through the many methods available. Refer to UML for full list
The MealComponent is also a child of the ItemComponent which will be used to combine all individual IngredientComponent to make a central dish which can be served to customer. This allows meals to have ingredients added and taken away at a basic level and have a set price. The quality will be calculated through a calculateQuality() function which will access each individual item's state to determine how each items quality is and the total quality at the end.