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You can implement ECS on top of EC. Entitas is and example of a really good ECS on top of Unity’s default EC. I’m currently writing and designing a serializati

You can implement ECS on top of EC. Entitas is and example of a really good ECS on top of Unity’s default EC. I’m currently writing and designing a serialization/networking library that I’m using to build an ECS framework on top of regular Unity EC. Why not use dots? Well, I hate the restriction of using only blittables for component data, I want to have access to the already existing ecosystem of Unity packages, and the biggest is that I am designing it for networking first. It’s slow going (I’m a dad and I have a full time game dev job), but I’m making good steady progress. My serialization library currently features composition, quantization, no reflection, and no garbage collection. I plan on releasing the first version under the MIT license hopefully in the next couple months. I have a prototype that I’ve been building to test my stuff. Check it out it’s only 30s. https://youtu.be/p4v3ZnS2KBM https://youtu.be/p4v3ZnS2KBM

prox 5y ago
Your demo reminds me of a problem that M&B 2 Bannerlord had, they created a destructable castle, but couldn’t get performance network enough to sync the destruction (bricks and stone walls) to all players.
- jbluepolarbear 5y ago
  Networking games is hard. It’s what I do for work and it’s an iterative process. If you’re interested in the subject of physics and netcode I’d recommend: https://gafferongames.com/post/introduction_to_networked_physics/ https://gafferongames.com/post/introduction_to_networked_phy... If your want a very deep dive and very technical, I’d recommend: https://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/The-DOOM-III-Network-Architecture.pdf https://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/The-DOOM-III-... A lot of good resources at the bottom of the pdf too.
  - prox 5y ago
    Thanks so much for posting these! I did get interested about physics, I recently did Space Engineers scripting and it really is cool to play with all kinds of variables. Now learning Godot to be able to quickly learn.

prox 5y ago

Your demo reminds me of a problem that M&B 2 Bannerlord had, they created a destructable castle, but couldn’t get performance network enough to sync the destruction (bricks and stone walls) to all players.

jbluepolarbear 5y ago
Networking games is hard. It’s what I do for work and it’s an iterative process. If you’re interested in the subject of physics and netcode I’d recommend: https://gafferongames.com/post/introduction_to_networked_physics/ https://gafferongames.com/post/introduction_to_networked_phy... If your want a very deep dive and very technical, I’d recommend: https://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/The-DOOM-III-Network-Architecture.pdf https://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/The-DOOM-III-... A lot of good resources at the bottom of the pdf too.
- prox 5y ago
  Thanks so much for posting these! I did get interested about physics, I recently did Space Engineers scripting and it really is cool to play with all kinds of variables. Now learning Godot to be able to quickly learn.