A programming paradigm in which gameobjects (entities) are composed out of components, and are operated upon by systems. Each entity is an ID that points to specific components.
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Entity system and rendering types
I would like to implement entity system in my game and I've got some question about entity system and rendering.
Currently, my renderer got two types of elements:
Current design
Mesh : A default ...
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Dealing with sprite loading and setting in an entity-component system
I've just started using an entity-component system for the first time and I'm having trouble making some decisions.
Currently I've got a SpriteComponent that holds a sprite, a ...
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Entity Component System - Sharing System Data
I'm working on an Entity Component System in XNA/C# and I wondering how, and if, systems within an ECS share data.
For example:
Lets say I have a ParticleSystem, RenderSystem and an ...
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Using an Entity System Architecture with Task Based Parallelism
Background
I have been working on creating a multithreaded game engine in my spare time and I currently trying to decide the best way to work an entity sytem into what I have already created. So far, ...
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Controlling Constantly Running AIs
So, I'm not really sure where to start with this question. Feel free to tell me I'm stupid and Off Topic but I'd also like you to tell me why.
So, the maps in the game I am designing will consist of ...
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Entity systems, creating new entities?
How do I create new entities (the collection of their components) in an entity system? I have space ships in my game, for example, they need a lot of information set in their components when I create ...
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When two moving objects collide, which one sends the message, and which one recieves it?
I am writing a platform game using an entity-component system. Entity-World collisions are robust and work very well, and I'm now working on collisions between entities.
Just to be clear, in my code ...
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Design problem with specific requirements (logical dependencies needed)
I started to write some code for a small 3D environment. This week I wanted to start with my entities and when I thought about it again, I stumbled across some unmet requirements. My design works fine ...
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Entity Component Systems, Input, and Angry Birds!
I am using Artemis ECS. I have the very basics of a game already. I am now trying to determine how to gracefully handle input and to a lesser extent collisions. Some people say with ECSs, everything ...
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Efficiently separating Read/Compute/Write steps for concurrent processing of entities in Entity/Component systems
Setup
I have an entity-component architecture where Entities can have a set of attributes (which are pure data with no behavior) and there exist systems that run the entity logic which act on that ...
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Confusion about systems implementation of ECS
For reference I am mostly imitating the architecture in this tutorial, the "Entity System" section: http://www.raywenderlich.com/24878/introduction-to-component-based-architecture-in-games
NOTE: the ...
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Registering and (more importantly) Unregistering with Message Server
I've finally implemented an extendable message class and messageServer class. The message class dynamically assigns a unique static ID to each derived message type (ex. ObjectCreatedMessage might be ...
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Need opinions on my component based design [closed]
I have an Entity class and a Component class. The Entity class has a list of attached components, and each component also has a member variable that is a reference to the entity that it is attached to ...
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How would one store global context data in an entity component system?
My question is this:
How would one store global context data, ie. world data information, current world time, etc in an entity component system?
I'm think of working towards building a Dwarf ...
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Timestamps as ids in an entity manager?
I've built my own entity manager, as I found out some days ago, it is very similar to the Artemis framework.
For now, I just use integers as entity ids. Behind the scenes, there is a simple integer ...
