Questions tagged [entity-component]
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How do I contiguously store and iterate over ECS components in C++?
I'm writing an entity component system and want to store each type of component separately and contiguously in memory in a way that's easy to iterate over.
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How to Implement ECS Archetypes in C#?
I'm trying to figure out how to implement a simple ECS with an Archetype approach, similar to what Unity's ECS uses.
An archetype is just a category for entities that have a specific set of components....
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How do you handle entity life-time and entities without all components in an ECS?
I'm just starting to implement my own ECS and am drawing everything down on paper to make sure I understand it all before tackling the implementation in code. However I'm getting stuck on entity-...
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How would I go about creating dynamic weapons using EC architecture?
I currently have a weapon component that contains common functionality across weapons (mainly guns).
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Hidden copies of the environment in an entity component system
For reasons outside the scope of this question, my game has several full copies of the game environment running asynchronously. At any one time, only one of these is rendered.
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Where should I put units and items in a squad-combat ECS-based game?
So I'm working on a game where squads of varied units would explore, fight, trade and build on an overworld map. Combat would be automated more or less, and happen on the overworld. Basically, ...
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Properway to pass information from one system to another in an entity component system design
After having read some example programs (namely Pong, Snake and Pacman) I am now experiencing with ECS. I am wondering where to put the elements for a reward flow. Do you know good practices for ...
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Additional Entity ID for networking instead of general EID?
http://t-machine.org/index.php/2015/06/09/entity-ids-how-big-using-uuids-or-not-why-etc/
I see this one article that proposes specific IDs just for the networking side of the game. If you are already ...
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Dealing with more complex entities in an ECS architecture
Preamble: I'm working on a level editor for my engine, which uses an ECS architecture. I have around a dozen component types so far, mostly dealing with graphics, like lighting components, model, and ...
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Pass data down to components
In the game I have, I'm using an architecture close to what I've seen of Unity components :
Basically, the universe implements the game loop, entities implement and ...
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Rename Sketchup Component meshes for Unity
When i create a component in Sketchup and i export it to Unity, the component structure is always:
Component_Name
MeshX
How can i avoid having the component name as an empty parent and just set it ...
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How could I get rid of these shared_ptr/weak_ptr in this entity-component architecture?
We've built an entity-component architecture that works ok for our needs, but it has something that bugs me a bit from a software engineering point of view.
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Implementations for storing entities in an ECS system
I'm restructuring my model of entities, components and systems, where entities are:
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How to implement n-body in an Entity Component System
Recently I've been throwing problems at Entity Component Systems to see how far I can push the paradigm. One problem in particular I struggle with, which is writing an elegant implementation of the n-...
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Use GKEntity's component(ofType:) with inheritance
I'm writing a SpriteKit game in swift and making use of GameplayKit's entity-component system. There are many components that do different stuff but share the same methods in which they do it, so I ...
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