Suggestion: Visualization of dependencies

Hi,

Based on what I read in other threads, and my own experience, most of the complexity with ECS/jobs will be in the dependency graph of jobs and components. It would be very helpful if there was an editor window where you could search up a component/system/job and get the full dependency graph for that item, rendered kind of like the animation systems state graph. Between Roslyn and the animation system, I think you have most of the functions needed for this already.

This could even be built out into a visual debugging system in the future.

I really like where ECS is going. Managing code at an enterprise scale in the old GameObject world is a pain.

Regards,
André

 

I agree. It would be nice to see all systems and barriers too as nodes with dependencies. It could also serve as a debug view.

I wanted to do something simple with UIElements to just visualize all systems as rectangles and manually place them on canvas accordingly. But did not have time to learn it.