Svelto ECS so far… As I wrote in my previous articles, Svelto.ECS wasn’t born just from the needs of a large team, but also as result of years of reasoning behind software engineering applied to game development (*) and that’s why the main Svelto.ECS goals are currently different than the ones set by Unity ECS. […]
note: while most of the reasonings are still valid, the code listed in this article is obsolete and the example has now radically different code. Introduction Lately I have been discussing Svelto.ECS extensively with several, more or less experienced, programmers. I gathered a lot of feedback and took a lot of notes that I will […]
[11/03/2018] : added Unity Jobs System version and updated timings. Please check at the end of the article. With my previous article on Svelto.Tasks and multi-threaded cache friendly code, I failed to show visually the power of Svelto.Tasks because I didn’t know how to upload a huge amount of data to the GPU without stalling […]
It’s not simple to learn a new framework and even less shift code paradigm. This is why Svelto.ECS has been written with simplicity in mind. Even so, I realised that I ought to write more tutorials to clarify some simple concepts that are not straightforward to grasp at first. That’s why I thought to explain, step […]
This an introductory post to Svelto.ECS 2.0. Other two posts will follow, one explaining the examples line by line and another explaining all the Svelto.ECS concepts in a simpler fashion than before. Therefore this article is written for who already knows Svelto.ECS. Svelto.ECS 2.0 is (at the time of writing this) available in alpha stage […]
Note: this article assumes that the reader knows how to use Svelto.ECS and Svelto.Tasks although the findings are interesting regardless. Introduction New exciting features are coming to Svelto.ECS and Svelto.Tasks libraries. As I am currently focused on optimizing Robocraft for Xbox One, I added several functionalities that can help making our game faster. Therefore I […]
Note: this is an on-going article and is updated with the new features introduced over the time. In this article I will introduce a better way to run coroutines using the Svelto.Tasks TaskRunner. I will also show how to run coroutine between threads, easily and safely. You can finally exploit the power of your processors, […]
Note: this article is now outdated as Svelto.ECS 2.0 is out. Read it to have a complete picture on the concepts, but the most up to date information can be found now here. Note: in this article you will meet the term Node, which has been superseded by the term EntityView. Six months passed since […]
If you need a fast and reliable (read very good to avoid collisions) hashing algorithm (not cryptographic), look no further, Murmur 3 is here to the rescue. Take it from here, it’s compatible with Unity3D. Directly translated from the c++ version. More info on Wikipedia and on this definitive answer on stack overflow
note: Svelto.ECS is now production ready, so you can start to use it after finishing reading the articles. At this point, I can imagine someone wondering if I still recommend to use an IoC container. IoC containers are handy and are quite powerful with Unity 3D, but they are dangerous. If used without Inversion of […]