Resolved Combining ECS, Authoring/Bakers and Addressables

Hi

I'm trying to make a RTS game using the ECS system.

For each game, we need to implement Addressables for further update, but we can't Bake subscenes in runtime; so I thought referencing the Baked scenes with the entities to spawn (and a generic spawner) would be the way to go. I'll use some kind of flag or string to be able to send commands to them, through systems and a singleton.

So now I'm trying to add baked-in-addressables subscenes at runtime.
Since I can't seem to be able to set it on runtime (is that correct?) I think I'll have to instantiate prefabs that have setted subscenes in it. But then, I don't know how to 'open' them.

Still, even if it works, this pretty much feels like a hack somehow. What is the proper way of achieving that ?

Addressables are pretty much mandatory when developping a video game, so how do you usually implement it when using hybrid ECS ?

Best regards,
Sylaférès

 

You should be using content management, not addressables, for entities projects

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.0/manual/content-management-intro.html

https://github.com/Unity-Technologi.../tree/master/EntitiesSamples/Assets/Streaming

 

Can we use it in parallel with Addressables ? (it seems possible; but we never know: conflicts may arise ^^)
If we have other content, not ECS, we want in our build ?

We would like to only have 'swarm'-like units in ECS, the other units, buildings, asn would be classic unity behaviours.

So basically the maps should at least be stored in addressables, I guess..?

 

Alright, seems like I manage to load my scenes, but it also seems the loaded scene isn't baked..
How can we force the scene to load to be already baked ?

Is it possible to get a EntitySceneReference from a WeakObjectSceneReference ?

 

yes, it is possible to use both solutions but you must manually manage the Addressables part.
in our case we use it for the Hybrid part (Skins, VFX, SFX, UI....)

 

I'll continue the discussion here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-actually-use-enable_content_delivery-in-build.1495526/

Since the original question: "how do you usually implement [Addressables] when using hybrid ECS ?" has been answered