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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In Unity 2021.3.29(built-in render pipeline, entities 0.51.1-preview.21), what is the proper way of DOTS based collision detection?
Packages Installed:
Entities: com.unity.entities Version 0.51.1-preview.21
Documentation URL: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html
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ECS: How do I instantiate Entities from a file of positions
I am quite new to Unity ECS and am trying to instantiate a few thousand entities based on positions stored in a .csv file. The file format can of course change, if that helps. My problem is to import ...
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How do I instantiate entities from a regular MonoBehaviour in ECS?
I'm loading data from an external source [call it an array of vector3 locations for the sake of this question]. I want to use it to spawn multiple instances of an entity with a renderer and some other ...
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Unlit camera-facing billboard in ECS/DOTS shader
I'm attempting to create an unlit billboard shader for use in DOTS. I'm using quads to host the material
(Some regular, some DOTS for comparison purposes)
I've cribbed together something from this ...
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How do I handle lists/arrays in Unity DOTS/ECS?
I'm new to ECS and am having issues finding the right data structure to use.
For context, I have a galaxy with solar systems that produce resources at a given rate (...
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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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