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[Colm]

Hey, I was wondering what other people do for managing assets in their games.

At the moment I just have a ContentManager class with a getImage() function that loads images from a specified path and makes sure you don't take up extra memory by having more than one copy of an image loaded at once. This certainly isn't the greatest method, because if I rename a directory, then I have to change every getImage() call that references something from that directory to use the new names.

Any better ideas? What do you personally use in your games?

[ferreiradaselva]

Why not detect the directory the program started from and store that string during the program life-time. Then, when you use any loading function, you just call by the relative directory:

getImage(context, "/texture.png"). The function will append that argument string to the directory string that you had saved.

Any better ideas? What do you personally use in your games?

I personally stopped loading content from external files. Now, I just convert the content into C headers (char array) and load from there. No need to redistribute files other than the executable itself + I don't need to worry about error checking if the program doesn't find the assets files, bc it's already in memory.