Shared Buffer / Arrays between Entities?

Hi,

What would be the best way to go about sharing a buffer / array between entities?

I have several systems that need to change component data values on an entity based on thresholds. Currently, I am using a dynamic buffer which is populated by an authoring component and never changes. Each buffer element contains a threshold and data about how to change component values. The system iterates through this dynamic buffer in a burst compiled c# job and selects the buffer element that meets the threshold.

Functionally this system works as intended, but I have a lot of entities that share the same threshold information that never changes (they have dynamic buffers that are populated with the same exact information) and I would like to share this data in memory if possible.

Is there a straightforward way to share this information between entities?

Thanks.

 

Look at BlobAssets, BlobAssetReference<T> and BlobArray<T> for data that can be created once, and shared between many entities.

 

Thank you. Looking at the BlobArray in the scripting API and I think it will work perfectly for my use case.

 

Just one word of caution: Be aware that BlobAssets work more like an in-memory file archive than just "some data on the heap": https://forum.unity.com/threads/acc...tem-uninitialized-values.730565/#post-4872992

 

Okay, I'll play around with BlobAssets, but I may hold off on adopting them for my use case until they are a bit more developed (I'd like to see them add a NativeArrayFromBlobArray Accessor for jobs or something like that).