entity-component-system | Entity Component System pattern | Game Engine library
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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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QUESTION
I'm trying to make ECS (Entity-Component-System) in C++ right now.
Here is my GameObject class :
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Feb-16 at 07:17In 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.)
QUESTION
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 22:43The functools.partial
function is made for this purppose:
QUESTION
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:
...ANSWER
Answered 2020-Mar-22 at 18:35So 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.
QUESTION
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!
ANSWER
Answered 2018-Jun-01 at 15:20Unity 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.
QUESTION
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.
...ANSWER
Answered 2019-Feb-03 at 23:22by 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:
QUESTION
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
ANSWER
Answered 2019-Jan-13 at 15:56The 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
QUESTION
I want to create an Entity-Component-System example. I have components like
...ANSWER
Answered 2018-Dec-10 at 14:45What 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 struct
s this line of code:
QUESTION
I want to create a small Entity-Component-System example and created some components like
...ANSWER
Answered 2018-Dec-09 at 21:25The 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:
QUESTION
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 :
...ANSWER
Answered 2018-Nov-20 at 22:52If you have C++17, use if constexpr
:
QUESTION
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 01:18The issue is the following line in MoveUpOrDown
and StopMoving
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