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This tutorial covers Conway's game of life in Unity 21019.3.0f3 with entities 0.4.0 preview.10 . Checked against 2019.3.5f1 & Entities 0.8.0 Preview.8 on March 13, 2020. Packages used are shown here Note: platforms are not the latest. it is only 0.2.1 preview 4 because Enti…
In this post, I will cover my last few weeks work on an Ecosystem Simulator in Unity DOTS. I have started with a minimal plant model. It gains energy and uses it to grow leaves stem height and seedPods. It does not have to use all its energy each tick. Excess energy is stored until the next …
In this series of posts I will be testing architectures and algorithms for ECS simulation. Particular those related to procedural generation and worlds with a large number interacting agents. I think about the simulations controlling things like a sim city style game or ecological simulation as opp…
Unity Technologies (https://unity.com/), creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, today announced that the Unity 2019.3 Tech Stream is now available to download from the Unity Store. Unity 2019.3 arrives with more than 260 improvements and features, including the production…
This tutorial covers writing unit tests for ECS. This is a practical tutorial on the process not an essay on what to test. If you read nothing else read the IMPORT: box below on pressing apply.
Checked against 2019.3.5f1 & Entities 0.8.0 Preview.8 on March 13, 2020. Pack…
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This tutorial covers SharedDataComponent & Chunk Components. This will be an attempted speed optimization by reducing the number of calls to render GameObject by having each GameObject cover a 2x2 square of cells. It will show usage of SharedCompon…
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This tutorial covers using CommandBuffers, Tags and WithAll() to reduce the number of entities processed in some steps. Also using [UpdateAfter()] and [UpdateInGroup()] to set the systems updating order.
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This tutorial covers changing the jobs from the first tutorial to be scheduled on worker threads.
Build tested on entities 0.4.0 preview.10 .Checked against 2019.3.5f1 & Entities 0.8.0 Preview.8 on March 13, 2020. Packages used are shown here Note: D…