Data management

[THe Floating Brain]

I have a question as to how I should manage data in a abstract form(sending collision data from one object to the next, passing object ID's around etc.). Originally in my game engine I planned to carry out the entire process using only the std::vector class. But after rethinking this I realized A: That so much data would be processed every frame it would be ridiculous and B: It is hard to manage the data in a abstract form you would have to have a std::vector that can contain any kind of std::vector and then store your objects in those. The other option for this would be to not have it be abstract at all and have very messy code. You would have to run functions over and over just to iterate through each std::vector and you would have to process the std::vector for example:

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//Lets imagine that we had multiple std::vectors containing different kinds of objects.
int A = 0;
while(A < MyObjVetc)
{
     MyObjVetc[A].Refresh<AnotherObj>(AnotherObjVetc);
     MyObjVetc[A].Refresh<YetAnotherObj>(AnotherObjVetcAgain);
     //This can go on and on for every type of Object you have.//
     A += 1;
}

The solution I came up with was to still store the objects in std::vectors but having objects access them through means of file I/O.
The file system I came up with is the following

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File A: (This file would contain the following information on every object in the game.)
	int ObjTypeID bool Collidable string DiretcoryLvl1
		File B: (This file would contain all the information on every instance of a object.)
		int ObjTypeID int ID float X float Y float Z string DiretcoryLvl2
			File C: (This file would contain standard information on a particular 			instance of a object.)
			std::vector<float> Collision-Box float X float Y float Z string DiretcoryLvl3
				File D: (This file would contain customised information on a 				particular instance of a object.)
				custom (what ever custom variables that object has.)

(Sorry I had some formatting issues with the copy/paste.)
I was wondering if this was the best approach for my data management?
Thanks for reading :-D
P.s I know I sometimes have a hard time getting my point across so if any clarification is needed please ask
P.s.s Language = C++.

[Falco Girgis]

I think that my design recommendations that I discussed here: http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... =singleton will prove to be invaluable to you.

You are approaching it faaaar too abstract for a video game. A game engine is a heavily intertwined series of classes with direct dependencies on one another. It's unrealistic from both a design and performance standpoint to be treating every object as a modular, standalone entity with nothing to do with any other object.

You clearly need to implement some form of a data "bank" that multiple classes/subsystems can access/manipulate to do their jobs.

[THe Floating Brain]

I think that my design recommendations that I discussed here: http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... =singleton will prove to be invaluable to you.

You are approaching it faaaar too abstract for a video game. A game engine is a heavily intertwined series of classes with direct dependencies on one another. It's unrealistic from both a design and performance standpoint to be treating every object as a modular, standalone entity with nothing to do with any other object.

You clearly need to implement some form of a data "bank" that multiple classes/subsystems can access/manipulate to do their jobs.

Thank you! :-D Very elegant/lightweight solution