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    How to turn Strategy Pattern into ECS?

    ECS is a paradigm shift from OOP to Data Driven. Trying to convert existing code will make that shift harder. Instead, look at the problem you...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Jun 6, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Job is struct, no pointers allowed, so how does a job return a value?

    All of the jobs that I have done so far are just to move processing into another thread. However, it seems like you would just use the same...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    HELP! How do I even run this thing?

    It seems it was a last minute thing. Here is hoping it is one time only and B13 will have the ECS stuff in it.
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    HELP! How do I even run this thing?

    There are two beta 12 builds. One works with ECS and the other does not. You must use the one linked in the Welcome thread of this forum. Here...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Reasons for float2, float3, etc. ?

    This is an early preview so it is far from feature complete. The conversions are temporary and we are just waiting on the new APIs which are...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Job is struct, no pointers allowed, so how does a job return a value?

    It is working as documented. I.E. only NativeArray and friends are returned from a Job, not a raw int variable. @UnLogick wanted to return just...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Reasons for float2, float3, etc. ?

    Vector3 if you are using GameObjects and float3 if you are using ECS/Jobs. Both if you use both. It is more painful right now since it is not...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Reasons for float2, float3, etc. ?

    I was thinking there was a 4th field, but it is actually a const, so you are right, they are both the same size. Changing something from being...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Job is struct, no pointers allowed, so how does a job return a value?

    Remember the two words fast and safe when you find a limitation or something that seems "excessive and wrong" in the Jobs or ECS systems....
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 24, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Reasons for float2, float3, etc. ?

    The reason is speed. The Unity.Mathematics structures are exactly what the graphic API want for input. A NativeArray of them are ready to go...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 23, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Alternative to using string

    According to MSDN, System.Char is non-blittable. Unicode characters are 1-4 bytes long so this causes problems. Also, arrays are not blittable...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 23, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Entity Debugger feedback

    Naming things is the hardest part of programming. I like the idea of editor-only components. Ideally, for naming, the developer would write a...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 22, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Using the job system to... save images?

    Ok, this is a bit painful, but it works. In short, I use Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string) to convert to a byte array then use...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 22, 2018 in forum: C# Job System
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    Overhead on starting jobs

    The overhead doesn't seem to be too much. Remember, ECS is based on the Job system and it is designed to handle large numbers of systems and...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Overhead on starting jobs

    It depends on your data and your needs. However, you can string jobs together as dependencies so when the first one finishes the next one starts....
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    ETA on C# job system and new ECS?

    Yes, but I also understand that this is a preview and is not feature complete. Some of the parts needed to make it 100% allocation free do not...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    NativeArray and Mesh

    :D "The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good." - Gordon Gekko in Wall Street I'm not sure there would...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Entity Debugger feedback

    ECS doesn't really care what the archetype is, it is just the starting list of components added to the entity. Having the editor track which...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    NativeArray and Mesh

    More then that, Mesh wants Vector3s and can only be used from the main thread. I do hope we get a way to create and manage meshes from inside the...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: Entity Component System
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    Using the job system to... save images?

    You can't use a char* either. NativeArray<char> might work but System.Char is not a blittable type so you may need to goto byte. Unless you are...
    Post by: RootCauseProductions, Mar 21, 2018 in forum: C# Job System
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