Suggestion of utilities to add to DOTS physics eventually

I've been building a little collection of utilities that I often need in everyday game programming tasks and that I couldn't find in the existing DOTS packages. I'm presenting that list - and more - here as suggestions of static utilities (should all be usable from jobs) that I think would help people work more quickly in DOTS Physics, and that could maybe be added to the packages eventually. I see people complaining about the lack of some of these quite often in the forums/discord/etc so I'm sure these additions would be welcome and would help with the adoption of DOTS in general

I know some of these are already planned, but I'll list them anyway just to "add my vote":

Spoiler: Utils

• IsBodyDynamic(in PhysicsWorld physicsWorld, int rigidbodyIndex)
• IsBodyKinematic(...)
  
• IsBodyStatic(...)
  
• IsTrigger(...)
• GetAngularVelocityForMoveRotation(quaternion from, quaternion to, float dt)
• GetFaceNormal(RigidBody hitBody, ColliderKey colliderKey) // returns the normal of the triangle. Useful to know if this is a backface hit
  
• Find ways to make it as easy & intuitive as possible to:
  • Get physics material
  • Create & assign a new physics material to a collider (especially for changing collision filters)
  • Create & assign a unique copy of a collider (at runtime, by code. When you don't necessarily need ALL colliders to be unique, but have a few variants for example)
  • Resize primitive colliders
  • get mesh UV at hit position (although maybe that's not physics's responsibility? But maybe some thought should be give into how this would work, if not done already)
• Easy Collision/Trigger event systems that tell you if it's an Enter/Exit/Stay event, and don't require you to create an IEventJob (example)

• Missing math utils in Unity.Mathematics that are very often needed
  • float3.up, float3.forward, float3.right
  • ProjectOnPlane(...)
  • Project(...)
  • slerp(float3 a, float3 b, float t) // right now, only quaternions have slerp
  • FromToRotation(quaternion from, quaternion to)
  • AngleRadians(float3 from, float3 to)
    
  • SignedAngleRadians(float3 from, float3 to, float3 axis)
  • AngleRadiansBetween(quaternion from, quaternion to)
  • ClampVectorMagnitude()
  • GetClosestPointOnLine(...)
  • GetClosestPointOnSegment(...)

• Quick raycast closest hit functions that initialize their own collector, with option to hit triggers or not, and hit backfaces or not
  • RaycastClosest(...)
  • BoxCastClosest(...)
  • SphereCastClosest(...)
    
  • CapsuleCastClosest(...)
    
  • ColliderCastClosest(...) // ignores self

• Quick calcDistance closest hit functions that initialize their own collector, with option to hit triggers or not, and hit backfaces or not
  • PointDistanceClosest(...)
  • BoxDistanceClosest(...)
  • SphereDistanceClosest(...)
    
  • CapsuleDistanceClosest(...)
  • ColliderDistanceClosest(...) // ignores self

• Quick raycast all hits functions that initialize their own collector, with option to hit triggers or not, and hit backfaces or not
  • RaycastAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • BoxCastAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • SphereCastAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • CapsuleCastAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • ColliderCastAll(ref NativeList hits, ...) // ignores self

• Quick calcDistance all hits functions that initialize their own collector, with option to hit triggers or not, and hit backfaces or not
  • PointDistanceAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • BoxDistanceAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • SphereDistanceAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • CapsuleDistanceAll(ref NativeList hits, ...)
  • ColliderDistanceAll(ref NativeList hits, ...) // ignores self

Also feel free to add more suggestions in thread

 

im slowly creating these extensions to make DOTS Physics and maths easier
https://github.com/Extrys/EZ-DOTS-Extensions it still WIP maybe i can add some of your requested functions