I have a game with few different object classes which are all derived from a base class name Gameobject like so:
class Gameobject{...}
class Block : public Gameobject{...}
class Wall : public Gameobject{...}
class Raw : public Gameobject{...}
Inside the logic of the game I'm managing some part with actual Blocks and Walls but as Gameobject like:
Gameobject* wall = new Wall();
Gameobject* block = new Block();
And the problem is that I would like to be able to call a copy constructor to copy an object but in the in a way that if I call
Gameobject* newObj = new Gameobject(ObjToCopy);
it will recognize if the object to copy is a wall/block/somethingelse and copy the data in the wall/block/somethingelse class and create an actual wall/block/somethingelse object.
If that helps I have a variable inside the Gameobject class that tells me what class that object is exactly like:
if (genericObject.category=="block"){
/* cast is like a block and use it like that */
}else{
/* do other checks */
}
