ECS subscenes

hello, is it possible to opt out of subscene conversion for some specific gameobject ? id like to not convert some gameobject that are only for making edit easier

 

Yes there's a component StopConvertToEntity

 

it doesn't seems to have any effects in subscenes, it seems to only work for runtime conversion.
adding stop convert:


the entity that shouldn't have been converted:

 

any other ideas @tertle ? anyone ?

 

Not sure that's advisable.
If you choose not to convert some GO to entities what will happen when you close the sub scene ?
I assume the editor will convert your subscenne to entities (without the excluded GO) and serialize it.
But then how can it "restore" those GO ?? Once you reopen the subscene since the GO were not converted they were not serialized.

 

i only wish to not have the entity representation of those GameObject that are purely here for my editing need in the gameobject scene, of course i wish to keep those GameObject around

 

In that case the only thing I can think of is to have a tag component for those and have a system that destroy/disable any entity with that component.
If you put a AlwaysUpdateSystem attribute on that system I expect it would run in editor and destroy/disable any entities that are converted when closing the subscene. Since the destruction happens at "runtime" it should not affect the subscene serialization process.
Note that this won't prevent these "unwanted" entities to be part of the built product.

But like I said, I don't see a way to prevent the convertion to an entity without losing the gameobject after deserialization.

 

ive attempted to destroy the entities generated with a tag but i got plenty of errors because the linkedgroup/DOTS animation conversion systems expects those entities to be valid, so i am looking for something similar to the "StopConvertToEntity" behaviour but that works with subscenes.
thanks for your answer @WAYN_Games