Questions tagged [unity-dots]
Questions about the Data-Oriented Tech Stack for the Unity Engine, including the new Entity-Component-System architecture, the Burst compiler and the Job system.
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DOTS 0.50: Multiple Errors when installing Hybrid Renderer
I'll go straight to the point: I'm getting many errors when installing Hybrid Renderer for my DOTS project. I have no idea what to do. I haven't installed any other packages because there were already ...
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How to animate game object using entities?
I am having issues with some of the DOTS stack in unity (mostly the rendering and animation) and was hoping I could use gameobjects for those parts. Not sure how to use entities inside a regular ...
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Unity DOTS/ECS: Spawning entity programmatically at specific location
I'm interested in learning how to spawn entities from prefabs (from a monobehaviour) at random locations in a scene on a key press. Similar to this video, I'd like to instantiate these objects ...
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DOTS entity debugger -- trouble inspecting elements within a dynamic buffer
I'm using Unity 2021.2.7f1 with the latest versions of DOTS available.
When I open up the entities debugger "Windows / DOTS / Enities" I can begin inspecting the live component values ...
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Rotating only 2 axes of rotation quaternion to "point" in a direction
Note: I am using the Unity DOTS ECS framework, which contains less maths functions, but I can probably implement the same functions from standard unity if the code is public. This question is not ...
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Can I cache and edit Unity RaycastCommands?
I'm simulating a LiDAR and am working to optimize the code. In following along with the RaycastCommand documentation, I have the core functionality working and I'm trying to optimize it.
I see where ...
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Should I dispose a NativeArray on application quit?
I have a NativeArray which stays alive during the whole game, using the Persistent allocator. Should I dispose it inside an <...
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Instantiated entities don't collide with each other
I've started to learn DOTS some day ago, and decided to create a simple project. When I added some simple physics to the game I faced the problem. I added one object on the scene and another ...
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Unity ECS: Issues with rotation
Posting this here because I spent several days trying to figure out why I couldn't rotate my entities the way I wanted to in Unity.
For a little bit of background, I'm creating a flight dynamics model ...
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Unity ECS: How do I stop an entity from spawning twice?
I am implementing a flight dynamics model using Unity's built-in ECS package, Entities, and I keep running into one particular issue where the aircraft I'm trying to spawn gets converted into an ...
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How to detect collisions in Unity ECS?
I am creating a game using the new Data-Oriented Tech Stack (DOTS).
I am using Entities with the PhysicsShape and PhysicsBody authoring components of the new Physics package. Some of my PhysicsShape ...
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Using EntityManager from inside a system
I am using Entities v0.8
I am trying to build a Spawner, and this is the system
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Scale / NonUniformScale is not applied to entity
I'm just learning the new Unity ecs and trying to change the size (scale) of an entity.
Everything works fine, I can change the rotation, the position but not the scale.
I'm wondering why.
I did ...
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How to make animation in unity Dots hybrid?
I'm working on isometric game in 2D but didn't find any good tutorial in how to handle animation...any help?
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How do set a layer on an ECS entity?
I'm using Unity ECS entities to draw out some tiles. I would like to determine the layer (or sortOrder) of the rendered tile so that if a tile is placed over another at the same position, the tile ...
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How to find and modify specific entity or gameobject in Hybrid ECS?
I am rotating 3 cubes in Unity with Hybrid ECS and the code goes like this :
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IConvertGameObjectToEntity interface on Unity ECS
Was working on ECS and following the tutorials by Mike Geig in Unite Copenhagen on YouTube(https://youtu.be/BNMrevfB6Q0), and understood that unity automatically converts transforms, mesh renderers ...
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Unity conversion of Gameobjects to ECS
I have not worked with ECS before, so I was following the tutorial by Unity's Mike Geig on Youtube to convert gameObjects to ECS from Unite Copenhagen, and this code does nothing, and there are no ...
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Unity "Convert To Entity" does not work (Render) with "Skinned Mesh Renderer" for Animations
I'm trying to make a game with Unity's ECS and Job System.
I came across the issue where, Convert To Entity does not support Skinned Mesh Renderer. It does not render the mesh. I need it for ...
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