IJobProcessComponentData for IBufferElementData

Are there are plans to introduce new "IJobProcess" job types that can support IBufferElementData as generic arguments? Right now I'm using Chunk Iteration.

Thanks!

 

You can also use BufferFromEntity<> inside the IJobProcessComponentDataWithEntity

 

Looking at the source code, it seems like it might be possible to create your own job interfaces, which would auto-populate an "Execute" method however you might like.

It would be involved, but maybe not impossible. I don't see too much internal stuff being called from IJobProcessComponentData.cs or IJobProcessComponentData.generated.cs.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. In this case I'd like to only work on Entities which have a DynamicBuffer of a certain type. I'd like the System's execution to be conditional on those buffers being present, like you can do with a ComponentGroup (or like an IJobProcessComponentData does this).

 

You can add
[RequireComponentTag(typeof(YourIBufferElementDataType))]
above the job struct which will then form part of the archetype.

 

Aha. Turns out I didn't know about

RequireComponentTagAttribute

. Looks like this should do the trick in the meantime.

Although if anyone has info about plans to add new IJobProcess interfaces with native support for buffers, please drop some knowledge on us.