Tiny ECS Api

I just completed the tiny ecs demonstration videos. It looks great, solving many of usability concerns I had with the current Unity Ecs system. The addition of entity groups, entity filters, and behaviors were super. The ability to drop entities in the editor was also great.

Can we expect the main unity ecs branch to 'catch up' with the feature set to catch up with tiny ecs ?

 

That's all we want for xmas

 

@Joachim_Ante I'm actually curious, once the ECS editor tools for scene building etc will arrive (for "full" ECS), how do we deal with hybrid ECS at that point? We'll still need bunch of systems from old Unity API for years for most games so that has to work somehow. So mainly curious now how that will be handled? Will there be some EntityGameObject setup to work in the opposite direction?

 

Oh, I'm actually thinking something different. Imagine you need physx rigidbodies or some other system that doesn't exist in current ECS space. There's no ECS physics at this point so you need physics system from elsewhere. If you have only ECS related things in the new editor layout, how do you bring in gameobjects/monobehaviors if there's no bridge for them? On current scene layout we got the bridge from old->entities through GameObjectEntity.

I get that Megacity was built using old scene editor and structures were converted to be entities on the final thing but that doesn't need to bring the actual monobehavior functionality along to ECS side (or do you actually have system for that?) and since you are not overriding the editors scene structure, you can still keep the hybrids for input etc.

So what I'm really wondering, when we actually get the ECS specific editor for "full" ECS, will there be a way to put old monobehaviors to it in any way or do you let users running both editor layouts in parallel or what? (this could be confusing). Looking at Tiny, it looks like it completely replaces the regular scene setup and saves on it's own format, I don't see any entry point for gameobjects there.

Basically if there's no way to do hybrid on ECS scene editing, it means you'd have to do pure ECS all the way and we all know there's tons of systems missing before that can happen for most people.