Bench Upgrade
This wiki will outline the design decisions involved with the grid layout and bench upgrades.
We started off by creating this tile to simply test if we would be able to string multiple of them together to create a bench. This is a 2x2.
The initial plan was to create a grid in order to place the benches. The idea was to create something similar to the tiles being created in the TerrainFactory. So we tried creating a new type of tile called Bench and implementing it by adding into the layer being created the same way I created the Customer Tiles when we implemented the blue area for customers. A function was added called create_bench_grid. However, after spending a few hours doing this, we realised the inefficiency of the idea. It would created issues when having to deal with collisions and we also realised that the benches should not be created the same way floor tiles are. This is because Benches are objects/obstacles and hence should not be part of the terrain. It would be more suitable to create them on top of that terrain being created. The initial commits on the team7-bench branch are attempts of this implementation.
We decided to switch into adding the bench tiles into ForestGameArea. Multiple bench designs had to be created to create a layout similar to what we had in the first sprint. Here are a few examples:
These were all created using photoshop by our team (similarly to the new player sprite that we created).
The Bench.java class was completely rewritten by removing most of what was written since they were no longer needed. All that is being done in this class is mostly creating components like PhysicsComponent and ColliderComponent. The benches were spawned by adding multiple tiles next to each other (setting the coordinates was pretty simple due to the size of a bench tile fitting a floor tile). Once this was done we were able to create whole benches.
