Chapter 2. Keeping Track of Your Textures – Resource Management
In the previous chapter, you have learned how to load a texture, and display a sprite that uses the texture. During the process of game development, you encounter such situations again and again: you need to load data from the hard disk, be it images, fonts, or sounds. This chapter intends to give you a broader understanding of the following points:
- What is the motivation behind external resources
- Which classes for resource handling and manipulation does Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) provide
- What might a typical use case in a game look like
- How do we cope with the constantly recurring need to manage resources in a simple way
Defining resources
In game development, the term ...
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