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Entity Component System: Retrieving components quickly [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Retrieving components from game objects (entities) I'm working on an entity-component-system game at the moment. I've looked in particular at the Artemis framework and a ...
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Retrieving components from game objects (entities)

Using C# and XNA 4, I've made the decision to go for an entity-component based design for my game after reading such posts as this and this, but I'm now struggling to find how to retrieve components ...
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Load order in XNA?

I am wondering whether the is a mechanism to manually control the call-order of void Game.LoadContent() as it is the case with void Game.Draw(GameTime gt) by setting int ...
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Dealing with 2D pixel shaders and SpriteBatches in XNA 4.0 component-object game engine?

I've got a bit of experience with shaders in general, having implemented a couple, very simple, 3D fragment and vertex shaders in OpenGL/WebGL in the past. Currently, I'm working on a 2D game engine ...
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How do I communicate with an IronPython component in a C#/XNA game?

My XNA game is component-oriented, and has various components for position, physics representation, rendering, etc, all of which extend a base Component class. The player and enemies also have ...
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How to properly implement message handling in a component based entity system?

I am implementing an entity system variant that has: An Entity class that is little more than an ID that binds components together A bunch of component classes that have no "component logic", only ...
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Handling scripted and “native” components in a component-based entity system

I'm currently trying to implement a component-based entity system, where an entity is basically just an ID and some helper methods tying a bunch of components together to form a game object. Some ...
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Using component based entity system practically

Yesterday, I've read a presentation from GDC Canada about Attribute / Behaviour entity system and I think it's pretty great. However, I'm not sure how to use it practially, not just in theory. First ...
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How do I deal with abstracting collision handling code between entities with differing collision components?

I'm using a component based entity design with Components that hold the data and Systems that act on entities based on the components they have. Entities are registered to all systems as they are ...
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Open source component-based game engines? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Are there existing FOSS component-based frameworks? What open source game engines with component-based design of game objects do you know? And which best of them? I mean ...
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How do i make player input object spawning data driven?

I'm using component based design and am at the stage or re-factoring simple player input to be data driven. Currently i have a PlayerControlComponent, which an entity has if it should be player ...
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Why large builder classes rather than separate clases in component-based entity systems?

I was reading about component-based entity systems and I was wondering why there is usually a large EntityBuilder class with methods like CreatePlayer(), CreateEnemySpaceship(), and CreatePowerup(), ...
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How to properly handle collision in a component-based game?

Trying to wrap my head around the ways to properly handle collision in a game designed around components. I see many examples have some sort of PhysicsComponent that gets added to the entity's list ...
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Should game services be global? (XNA)

If one wants to use services, they can use the ones built in to XNA (Game.Services) and pass around the Game object to everything that needs to either query for a service or add a service. ...
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What designs are there for a component based entity system that are user friendly but still flexible?

I've been interested in the component based entity system for a while, and read countless articles on it (The Insomiac games, the pretty standard Evolve Your Hierarchy, the T-Machine, Chronoclast ... ...

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