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Resolved What libraries should we make ourselves?

Discussion in 'DOTS Dev Blitz Day 2023 - Q&A' started by Kleptine, Aug 23, 2023.

  1. Kleptine

    Kleptine

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    We're starting up a new project on top of ECS. Since ECS is not quite finished yet, it's clear we'll need to build several tools / libraries to be able to make games productively:
    - Cinemachine Integration
    - Timeline
    - ECS Visual Scripting

    From the forum, it sounds like all of these currently have an ECS/DOTS version in development at Unity, but it's completely unclear when they will ship. This year? Next year? Later?

    We don't need a precise timeline, but we really don't want to spend 6 months of an engineer's time building a cinemachine integration, only to have the official package release. Can you give us a very general sense of when these packages are coming?

    Or, just generally, do you suggest investing in building these packages ourselves right now? Would that be wasted work?
     
    Kleptine, Aug 23, 2023
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  2. elliotc-unity

    elliotc-unity

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    If I were working on a game right now, I would just implement my own version of all three of these things, because even if Unity comes out with an alpha or beta, say, next year (who knows?), it's not guaranteed to actually meet a particular use case right when it hits alpha.

    On top of that, I'm not 100% sure on the survival rate for all those projects; I'm pretty sure general ecs visual scripting is dead for the time being.

    (I would, to be clear, use entities/netcode/physics/graphics themselves to start a project today, assuming the project was going to benefit from the performance and netcode awesomeness and such. I just wouldn't hold my breath for these other unreleased things.)
     
    elliotc-unity, Aug 24, 2023
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