What’s new in Svelto.ECS 3.0
2020-12-19
Svelto.ECS 3.0 is officially out, let’s find out what’s new.Read More →
Svelto ECS 3.0 Internals: profiling the Entity Collection
2020-05-17
Previously, in Svelto.ECS, it was possible to query entity components directly as a managed array, which would have resulted in the fastest way to iterate over the components in c#. Since Svelto.ECS 3.0 and because now the framework supports natively native memory as well, I decided to remove this possibilityRead More →
Svelto ECS 3.0 Internals: Support Native Memory Natively
2020-05-06
With the approaching third major release, Svelto.ECS internals have been overhauled to support Burst and native memory (among other features that I will discuss in different articles). The idea to support native memory in a c# framework is counter intuitive, but Burst is such an incredible piece of technology thatRead More →
Svelto.ECS Internals: How to avoid boxing when using structs with reflection
2020-04-13
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 →
Distributing Svelto through OpenUPM
2020-01-12
The Unity Package Manager is a good effort from Unity to distribute project dependencies similarly to what NPM does. UPM is still in its infancy and some problems are to be addressed, among them the conflicts arising from common .net dll is the problem that annoys me the most. Currently,Read More →
Introducing Svelto ECS 2.9
2019-11-30
Being busy on multiple fronts, I recently went AWOL from this blog, but Svelto is keeping up well with the new technologies (read Unity DOTS) and we are actively developing it for our new game Gamecraft. I am also spending my little spare time to develop Svelto 3.0, which willRead More →
Svelto MiniExamples: GUI and Services Layer with Unity
2019-07-30
Introduction: The Svelto.ECS methods designed to implement ECS based GUIs are simple and powerful, following the fundamental principles around the whole Svelto implementation. Their design doesn’t involve use of callbacks, as it relies on the power of Svelto.Tasks (but you can achieve similar results with other patterns like async/await) andRead More →
Introducing Svelto ECS 2.8
2019-05-06
Welcome back! It’s some time that Svelto ECS 2.8 is actually ready, as it has been used at Freejam for quite a while now (yep, we are developing Robocraft Experiments with it) and as the list of tasks for SECS 2.9 is growing, it was time to write this articleRead More →
Svelto Mini Examples: The Unity Survival Example
2019-04-02
08/04/2019 Note: this article is quite old (pre SECS 2.5) but since I ported the example to Svelto 2.8 (beta version at the time of this note), I updated this article as well, although it is still missing some important details related to the new features that ship with theRead More →
Svelto Mini (Unity) Examples: Doofuses Must Eat
2019-03-22
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 →