Resolved When will DOTS Physics be on the usability level of Physix?

Hello all,

I am really looking forward too Unity DOTS working as I expect it to work for a Game Engine, but it is still very hard to use, if not unusable in a reasonable amount of time.

I have been searching for Physics.OverlapBox in DOTS for like 10 minutes without luck.

This bothers me bc I will rather implement simple Boxcolliders on the GPU than messing with this untransparent piece of software.
IMO Game Development is already hard enough with Unity due too badly documented features, but thanks to the high amount of people actually using it one can always find a fix, not so for DOTS... Compute Shaders programming works very similarly to ECS but are 10 fold faster and if I have to reimplement stuff from scratch it is much easier for me doing it this way.

So is it planned to have Gameobjects features working out of the box or is it going to stay a niche were you can't do anything more complicated than rotating cubes without direct Unity support?

Unfortunately I see no future in DOTS even though I was really hyped when it was first introduced...Jobs adn Burst are great though... ECS only for simple Systems where one Entity has no relation to others at all -- but then again I use Compute Shaders...

Cheers!

 

OverlapBox(float3, quaternion, float3, ref NativeList<DistanceHit>, CollisionFilter, QueryInteraction)
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.physics@1.0/manual/collision-queries.html

Take a look at the physics samples to wrap your head around the API.

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/EntityComponentSystemSamples/tree/master/PhysicsSamples

You can also get advice in #dots-forum at https://discord.gg/unity

Cheers!

 

that is helpful though thanks! Still looks somewhat daunting though.
I will look into it