What’s new in Svelto.ECS 3.0
Svelto.ECS 3.0 is officially out, let’s find out what’s new.Read More →
I had two interesting problems to solve during the development of Svelto.ECS, which in short are: Set an implemented property of a struct, but only when the struct implements a specific interface, from a generic method and without casting the struct to the interface Assign an object to a fieldRead More →
20/03/2023 update I wrote a new demo that doesn’t need to use GPUInstancer. Code is now available on github. Note that I also updated the code to use GraphicBuffers instead than ComputeBuffers. For the game I am currently developing, Gamecraft, we are using Svelto.ECS for the game logic, Unity ECSRead More →
2022 Update I leave this article up for historical purposes, but almost everything written here is not recommended anymore. The publisher/consumer tool especially was designed to let separate EnginesRoots communicate with each other in a thread-safe way. Any other use of it is confirmed to be an abuse, including theRead More →
Note: this article is now outdated. The new version is found at: https://www.sebaslab.com/the-new-svelto-ecs-survival-mini-example/ 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 be using as starting point for myRead More →
Note: this article is not maintained. The mini example Doofuses has a third and final iteration for a long time now and it is what all my new articles refer to when talking about this example. Iteration 3 enhances the code using Burst and Jobs. After finishing writing my previousRead More →
Svelto ECS so far… 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(*). Compared to Unity.ECS the main goals and reasons for Svelto.ECS to exist are different enough to justify its on going development (plus Svelto isRead More →
[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 dataRead More →
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 writingRead More →
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 makingRead More →
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