Svelto ECS 3.4 internals: How to run ECS systems on the GPU
2023-03-31
Does your ECS framework run systems on GPU? Svelto surely does :ORead More →
Svelto.ECS 3.4 – Svelto On DOTS ECS update
2023-03-13
Introduction Svelto.ECS is a platform-agnostic C# Entity-Component-System framework. You can catch its flexibility in action through the Svelto mini-examples, with applications written for Unity, .Net, SDL and Stride Engine. When using Svelto.ECS with Unity, the user has the option to take advantage of the entire DOTS suite or specific parts,Read More →
The new Svelto.ECS Survival Mini Example
2022-12-31
Introduction My Xmas gift to the Svelto Community this year was the complete rewrite of the Survival Svelto.ECS MiniExample. This example is used as a reference by all newcomers because it’s the simplest to digest for people who are not in the ECS mentality and still think in terms ofRead More →
Svelto.ECS 3.3 and the new Filters API
2022-04-12
among many other features, Svelto.ECS 3.3 introduces a new shiny and finally usable filters API. The previous one had the bad habit to get very awkward very fast with the growth of complexity. The new API learns from the previous mistakes and introduces a ton of sweet features. To recapRead More →
Svelto MiniExample 7: Stride Engine demo
2021-10-01
Let’s run Svelto.ECS on Stride Engine and have some fun with it!Read More →
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 →
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 →