Creating Enemies

Since Skinned Mesh Renderer is not supported yet, is there any other way to create an entity with animation?

 

There are, but you should wait. Skinned support is coming soon.

 

How soon? Is there a roadmap?

 

As far as I know during 2019.3. HDRP/URP stuff for it was merged into github master a few weeks ago.

 

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/pull/4617

Marked as needs-backport-2019.3

 

You also might want to look at this which is designed for simple animations for very large amounts of entities. https://github.com/joeante/Unity.GPUAnimation

 

If you really want to start testing ECS stuff in regards to Unity Physics, you can use Convert To Entity and set the option to Convert and Inject (instead of Convert and Destroy). However, you'll need to add a ComponentSystem to sync the Translate and Rotation back to your Transform. All your animations will still need to be done through Animator. Assuming once it's all supported, you'll just be able to remove these components and change your setting back to Convert and Destroy.

 

anxiety will kill me, I cannot wait for the next dots/dots shooter, please joachim I need a ETA!!!!!!!

 

Thanks, it works. Do you know how to delete second entity which was created using Convert and Inject? I can only remove the main entity, but I do not know how to access the entity with animations (I guess this an injected GameObject ).