Cannot access two ISharedComponent in Entities.Foreach(ISharedComponentA,ISharedComponentB)

As I described in the title, I cannot use Foreach to access two ISharedComponent.

I've looked the file EntityQueryBuilder which Foreach is declared, and it seems Foreach was made by tons of generic functions. But there was no matching generic function that supports two ISharedComponent.

Is there any alternative to Foreach?

 

You get SCDs by index, so the best way to access them is by their chunk:

https://gametorrahod.com/everything-about-isharedcomponentdata/

 

If you can tell us what data you have in the 2 SharedComponent we can help further.

I asked the same question once and the answer is, chunks only have one SharedComponent unless it can be shared and are equal. Design with more than 1 SharedComponentData is usually against ECS unless you have a very specific use-case, I can't think of any that can't be brought into a single SharedComponent.

SCDs are a weird one and easily abused, I know I did with my first ECS project. Monobehaviours can be accessed without the use of SCDs and for everything that's a collection, DynamicBuffers should be used.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@0.0/manual/shared_component_data.html

 

Yes. I'm using hybrid ecs approach, so I have some reference to Monobehaviour objects in SharedComponent.

When I add sharedComponent PrefabAssetComponent(which holds prefab) to entity, system creates prefab instances and create PrefabInstanceComponent(ISystemSharedComponent) to hold that instance.

And when I add BehaviourTreeAssetComponent to entity, system does follows.

Code (CSharp):

1. Entities.WithAll<PrefabInstanceComponent,BehaviourTreeAssetComponent>().Foreach((Entity e,PrefabInstanceComponent instData, BehaviourTreeAssetComponent btAsset)=>{
2.   var btOwner = instData.gameObject.AddComponent<BTOwner>();
3.   btOwner.tree = btAsset.treeAsset;
4.   PostUpdateCommand.AddSharedComponent(e,new BTOwner
5. {
6.   owner = btOwner
7. });
8. });

BTOwner is just MonoBehaviour and I need system to be add component when both PrefabInstanceComponent and BehaviourTreeAssetComponent are attached.

I know in pure ECS it's not a good way to do this stuff, but I had to use animations or other AI plugins, so I had no choice.

 

I'd say you have overcomplicated the problem and I don't think you really need these data transformations. Take a look at my hybrid ECS animation system. It's barebones and works on hybrid and serves as a bridge with minimal setup.

It builds a cached version of entities and Animators and the Animators can be used like you know them from basic Unity with an AnimationEvent comp that has data what should happen.
If you don't find it useful, the method to get the monobehaviour in a system should still be interesting to you.

 

Whoa I didn't know GetComponentObject can get the reference type component from entity. And it's good idea to match id with animationName string.

Thanks! I'll give it a try