How should I go about doing this?

[StarJ3M]

I’m making different classes of weapons for my game, one of the ones I’ve already created are Bombs. All of these bombs have different qualities, qualities include:

• Damage
• Cooldowns
• Bomb-Exclusives

An example of Bomb-Exclusives is the Cluster Bomb, as opposed to the Classic Bomb, after the cluster bomb explodes it leaves a volley of smaller bombs that explode.

The current system has all of the code for each bomb inside of each script, so even though the system for each bomb script follows mostly the same structure, they all vary in terms of what they do.

I’m wondering how to implement this into OOP form, because every time I fix an error in one bomb that has the same written structure as the other bombs, I have to go through every single bomb just to fix the code. Instead of this, I want to just have one module manage every bomb while keeping each bomb’s exclusive parts.

An example of this would be:

Classic Bomb: Player Activated Bomb → Server Event → OOP Bomb Module → Explodes → Deals Damage → Starts Cooldown → ⟲

Cluster Bomb: Player Activated Bomb → Server Event → OOP Bomb Module → Explodes → Deals Damage → ||(THE SECTION SPECIFIC TO THE CLUSTER BOMB) Starts Cooldown → Spawns Mini Bombs → Explodes → Deals Damage || → ⟲

So how should I go about doing this?

[MrOnlyKemal]

• You can achieve this by creating inherited classes, you can create a base bomb class and other bomb types as different classes that inherit from the base class. That way the base class can handle the basic explosion and the other class types can have different customizations.

Note: I’m not that good at OOP so this might not be the best method to do this

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You can check these links:

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Advanced Inheritance

First, Im not english native, and my english couldnt be 100% correct Over the time I learnt and used OOP classes in roblox using metatables, it was always a pain in the head to create some kind of superclasses that would work almost like roblox superclasses, and also were easy to set it up. It was relatively easy to inherit methods, but for properties that wasnt the case, I was copy-pasting the properties because I was lazy. that would work if you dont have that many classes, but if you have 5…

How do methods work in an inherited class?

yeah what @JarodOfOrbiter said, you can have a boss:Attack() and use Enemy:Attack() in it. [Side Note]: Inheritance can cause you many problems and is generally hated and avoided in favor of composition, you can do a youtube search of “inheritance vs composition” to learn more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=inheritance+vs+composition

[StarJ3M]

@MrOnlyKemal

You can achieve this by creating inherited classes, you can create a base bomb class and other bomb types as different classes that inherit from the base class. That way the base class can handle the basic explosion and the other class types can have different customizations.

So do you think it would be optimal for me to structure it like this?

local bomb = {}
bomb.bombType = nil

function bombType2()

end

bomb.Explode = function(tickTime, damage)
     -- boom!!!

     if bomb.Type == "Type2" then bombType2()
end

return bomb

[StarJ3M]

still haven’t found a solution for this…