Question How properly activate an action on entities from an IJobEntity

Hey everyone,

My question is simple.

When a player get close to an entity it should do something.

I have an IJobEntity that runs on all Entities with a component that have:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public struct ExampleComponent : IComponentData
3. {
4.      public byte entityState;
5. }
6.  

When the player is close to an entity, I change it's "entityState" to 1.

and I constantly check:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public void Execute(in ExampleComponent data)
3.         {
4.             if (data.entityState == 1)
5.             {
6.                 // Do Something...
7.             }
8.         }
9.  

I was wondering if that approach is legit and is conventional for a situation where sometimes we need to do something with some of the entity but not all the time.

I will be thrilled to hear suggestions on how to improve this.
Thanks!

 

IEnableableComponent was made for this.

 

That exactly what I needed! I don't know how I wasn't aware of this.
Thanks!