entity-component-system | Entity Component System pattern | Game Engine library

 by   ericlathrop JavaScript Version: 4.0.5 License: MIT

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entity-component-system is a JavaScript library typically used in Gaming, Game Engine, Unity applications. entity-component-system has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can install using 'npm i entity-component-system' or download it from GitLab, GitHub, npm.

An implementation of the Entity Component System (ECS) pattern used commonly in video games. ECS is a way of organizing a system using composition instead of inheritance. It allows you to turn behaviors on and off by adding and removing components to entities. This module manages the running of a list of "systems" over a collection of entities. The only way to make changes to an entity is to create/edit/delete components attached to it.
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              entity-component-system has a low active ecosystem.
              It has 34 star(s) with 4 fork(s). There are 4 watchers for this library.
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              There are 3 open issues and 1 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 227 days. There are no pull requests.
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              The latest version of entity-component-system is 4.0.5

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            QUESTION

            How to automatically determine IDs for gameObject's?
            Asked 2021-Feb-16 at 07:42

            I'm trying to make ECS (Entity-Component-System) in C++ right now.

            Here is my GameObject class :

            ...

            ANSWER

            Answered 2021-Feb-16 at 07:17

            In order to have a unique value for each instance of GameObject you can:

            • introduce a static counter (of instantiations, not of existing instances) to the class GameObject
            • uincrement it in the constructor of the class GameObject
            • use its current value, at the time of instaatiating a new object which inherits `GameObject, by assigning it to an instance member of the new object during its constructor

            The counter should count instantiations (i.e. not decrement in destructor) instead of existing instances (i.e. do decremetn in destructors). Because I assume that GameObjects might get destroyed and new ones instantiated afterwards. That could end up with newer ones having identical IDs, if older ones get destructed before.

            This does of course assume that the number of all instantiations in your program never overflows whatever type you are using. If that happens things get problematic. I hope you do not need that. If you do, I think I might go for a stack of recently deleted IDs, to be used for new instantiations. That however will probably suffer memory issues for the kind of numbers which can overflow a long long int.

            (In case the uniqueness suffices as "very likely not to ever be identical" as opposed to "guaranteed to be unique" you can have a look into the concepts of "UUID". You'd have to judge the useability for your purpose yourself.)

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66219511

            QUESTION

            Is it possible to store a function and its arguments in a variable?
            Asked 2020-Jun-22 at 22:43

            I have seen lots of information on storing functions in variables for execution, but the functions shown are always of the:

            ...

            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Jun-22 at 22:43

            The functools.partial function is made for this purppose:

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62524503

            QUESTION

            Typescript: Serialize interface types to array of classes
            Asked 2020-Mar-22 at 20:09

            I have problem with typescript typings.

            Currently, I am working on small game engine, which uses entity-component-system model. I want to "serialize" types of interface into the array of classes (a types of each interface property) to inform system about needed components.

            What I want to achieve ideally:

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Mar-22 at 18:35

            So this is the best I can come up with. I don't believe this is possible to do (and if so not ergonomically from a developer perspective) with the array approach, so I've gone for the object one.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60799378

            QUESTION

            Are Unity's "MonoBehaviour Components" equivalent to systems from the Entity-Component-System design pattern?
            Asked 2019-Oct-20 at 09:22

            I am working on making a very simple 2D game engine, and I am in the process of redoing my entities to work somewhat like Unity's system. I have been doing research on how the Entity-Component-System design pattern (ECS) works, and I am beginning to understand it better.

            As I understand, a component in ECS only holds data and is not capable of doing anything but retain that data. These components are then used by systems which are used to read and manipulate their data.

            This led me to question is if the MonoBehaviour scripts that are attached to a GameObject in Unity are technically systems and not components as they are called in the Unity editor?

            If I am mistaken, I think it would be helpful for me to analyze true implementations of ECS. I am coding in Java, so if anyone has any examples of an ECS system implemented in Java or C#, that would be great as most of the examples I have seen were in C++ which is a bit more difficult for me to understand.
            Thanks!

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2018-Jun-01 at 15:20

            Unity doesn't strictly work via an ECS, despite using the term "Component." A Unity component, in the form of a MonoBehaviour, can have both data and system logic. Unity will, in future versions, be rolling out an ECS model.

            If you'd like to use current Unity versions (2018.1 and below) and strictly adhere to an ECS methodology, I'd suggest looking into Entitas and their Unity Plugin. You can also choose to structure your code, assets, and scenes to conform to ECS principles but Entitas is very efficient and solves a lot of problems for you.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50632898

            QUESTION

            connect systems with events
            Asked 2019-Feb-04 at 21:50

            Using the Entity-Component-System pattern I want to connect some systems with events. So some systems shouldn't run in a loop, they should just run on demand.

            Given the example of a Health system a Death system should only run when a component gets below 1 health.

            I thought about having two types of systems. The first type is a periodic system. This runs once per frame, for example a Render or Movement System. The other type is an event based system. As mentioned before a connection between Health and Death.

            First I created a basic interface used by both system types.

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2019-Feb-03 at 23:22

            by what im getting at this, you want to have a repetitive, once every tick type event alongside a once in a year type event (exaggerated but clear), you can do this with a delegate call back function IE:

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54389211

            QUESTION

            create performant component pooling for system loops
            Asked 2019-Jan-13 at 20:26

            I'm setting up a really small Entity-Component-System example and have some problems with the component pools.

            Currently my entities are just IDs (GUIDs) which is fine.

            Each system has to implement the ISystem interface

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2019-Jan-13 at 15:56

            The heart of the problem is that Dictionary and Dictionary are entirely unrelated types. They are not convertible to one another. This is because the dictionary can be read and written. If you could convert a List to a List you could then store a Tiger which would break type safety. If you could convert the other way around you could read Tiger instances and treat them as Giraffe which again would break type safety. You can search the web for .net covariance contravariance to find more information.

            A simple solution is to change from

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54129989

            QUESTION

            modifiy dictionary value as out parameter and reference
            Asked 2018-Dec-10 at 14:45

            I want to create an Entity-Component-System example. I have components like

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2018-Dec-10 at 14:45

            What if someone creates a new MovementspeedComponent using float movementspeed

            Types are good for keys when we have one object/collection per each type otherwise a Dictionary isn't a good fit, key should be unique.

            When I try to modify the components they are not modified by reference

            Since all of components are structs this line of code:

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53702466

            QUESTION

            return class instead of interface from collection holding interfaces
            Asked 2018-Dec-09 at 21:40

            I want to create a small Entity-Component-System example and created some components like

            ...

            ANSWER

            Answered 2018-Dec-09 at 21:25

            The short answer: You can't. If dictionary is of type Dictionary then it will return only IComponent.

            However you could create an extension method for this:

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53696420

            QUESTION

            How to call a copy constructor only if it exist ? c++
            Asked 2018-Nov-20 at 22:52

            I'm making an Entity-Component-System Engine and I have a little trouble with prefabs. I want to copy a prefab, only if the class that the user pass has template is copy constructible. A simple implementation of what I want to do will be something like that :

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2018-Nov-20 at 22:52

            If you have C++17, use if constexpr:

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53402751

            QUESTION

            Entity-Component in Swift
            Asked 2018-Jul-15 at 04:40

            I am trying to build a simple iOS game using entity-component architecture similar to what is described here.

            What I would like to achieve in my game is when a user touches the screen, detect where the touch occurred and move all entities of one type towards a specific direction (direction depends on where the user touched, right of screen = up, left of screen = down).

            So far, the game is really simple and I am only getting started, but I am stuck in this simple functionality:

            My issue is that an SKAction is supposed to run on all entities of a type, but happens at all.

            Before I redesigned my game to an ECS approach, this worked fine.

            Here is the GKEntity subclass that I declared in Lines.swift:

            ...

            ANSWER

            Answered 2018-Jul-15 at 01:18

            The issue is the following line in MoveUpOrDown and StopMoving

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51344312

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