Note: this is an article dedicated to the windows platform. What am I going to show may or may not apply to other platforms. Those pesky native crashes If you are a long term unity developer, it must have happened to you: Unity suddenly closes itself and shows the dreadedRead 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 →
A recent tweet asking about how to achieve zero allocation code in Unity inspired me to write a short piece about the importance of memory allocation in c# and game development. C# wasn’t initially designed for game development, but today, thanks to Unity, ECS and Burst, we can achieve greatRead More →
Finally I found the time to play with unmanaged arrays and Memory<T>/Span<T>. In order to investigate possible improvements of the data structures used by Svelto.ECS, I wanted to know what the fastest way to set elements in a preallocated array could be. Using the very powerful BenchmarkDotNet and with theRead More →