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Entites are not rendering
I stuck in the problem that my entites are not showing. I found Entities graphic rendering sample for runtime it perfectly worked. But when i am integrating its code, there is no luck. Please tell me ...
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How do I design a "Chores" or "Errands" system?
I have a number of entities running around in my game, and I am running into a headache trying to design and implement a system for them to both generate and assign the tasks. More than anything else, ...
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Entity initialization in an online game
How do online games handle creation of new entities? I currently have an EntityFactory class that requires an ID (specifying the entity type). A bunch of subroutines are executed to determine exactly ...
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How to handle various collision effects within an Entity Component System?
Let's say we have three enemies, a bear trap, a fire trap, and a minotaur. When you walk over the bear trap, the game spawns an invisible entity that, upon the player colliding with it, slows the ...
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Cannot decide between using a MessageBus and entities for events in my ECS game
For example, let's say that the player walks into an enemy and in response, a chain of events should occur (such as: his score goes up, the enemy dies, a cinematic starts, etc.)
I see two "proper&...
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How to manage data relationships when designing a crafting system?
I'm trying to determine all the items, crafting methods and recipes to put in my game, and the relationships between them. I need a tool that allows me to do this both top down (boat needs sails and ...
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Is there a way to make the enemy start its pathfinding once the player is in a certain distance than the enemy
I am currently using A stars' pathfinding code here: https://arongranberg.com/astar/. So I didn't create any scripts, and used the scripts provided by astar. But the problem here is that even though ...
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How to delete Unity Hybrid ECS Entities?
I'm trying to get into Unity's Hybrid ECS feature. Creating and Manipulating Entities has worked fine so far for me, but somehow I can't find a viable option to delete Entities which works 100% of the ...
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How can I make an entity invulnerable to fall damage?
I've been using minecraft forge 1.12 to make a mod that gives the user super-jumping abilities. However, I've been having trouble making the player invincible to fall damage. I've tried to use a ...
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Network limitation in multiplayer game
I have a multiplayer cooperative game (PVE) in where there can be up to 200 enemies at a time (somewhere around that) and I was wondering how devs generally synchronize these? I already have packets ...
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Java - Entity Collision only working for last index of the Entity Array
I am in the early stages of creating a Java 2d platformer / sidescroller game where the Entity class requires (at this point) basic Rectangle bounds collision detection.
In my code I check to see if ...
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How would a server handle sending entity updates to clients?
Lately I've been looking into networking and sockets and made small test programs to get the basics down. So far I've made a TCP turn-based game from where I learnt a lot and helped me getting some ...
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Should entities auto-register to systems based on their component signature?
I see all the upside in entities registering automatically for basic components. If an entity has a Renderable component, it should be registered to a list that's used by a Renderable System. If an ...
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Nested Entities in Entity Component Systems (ECS) [duplicate]
Say I have an entity that has these components:
-Transformation
-Visual
Imagine that these components can nest:
If I have a parent transformation component, a child transformation relies on the ...
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The most correct/efficient way to update millions of entities that change over time in an mmo?
We have a server and a database in the cloud. We have a game where each player can grow a farm on a massive x,y grid. Each hour is a grow cycle. All players can harvest anyone's plants. Player A ...
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