Share your ideas and wishes !

[genaray]

So since there actually a few people using this ecs framework, its probably a good idea to respond to their wishes :)

A few features are currently already planned and being worked on :
https://github.com/users/genaray/projects/1

• Structural changes
• CommandBuffer to utilize structural changes when multithreading
• EntityTemplates for cloning entities and their values in masses

What else would you love to see ? :) Let me know !

[MindSwipe]

A collection of things I'd love to see:

• Changing an Entity's Archetype at runtime (probably best to delay until a CommandBuffer has been implemented)

• Exclusive Queries
  A way to query for Entities that contain an exact match of components, so say we execute a Query with Exclusive = { Transform, Roation } in a world with an Entity (A) with components Transform and Rotation and another Entity (B) with Transform, Rotation and Ai, only Entity A would be returned

• Registering Systems in a World
  A built in way of registering/ grouping systems would be great, so we can setup a world, register systems, and then every frame/ simulation step just call world.Run. This would mean we'd also need some way of ordering/ grouping systems, and for that I'd closely mimic what Bevy did, ordered SystemStages that actually "hold" the systems with a way to register SystemStages and set ordering

• System Resources
  A way for the World to have state outside of entities would be great, since some things only make sense to have one of, for example Time

P.S maybe the Projects aren't public in this Repo? I get a 404 when I click on the project link.

[MindSwipe]

I can do it 👍

Also, just a comment on the "Refactor Code to full c# code convention" item on the roadmap, the easiest way would probably be to add the StyleCop.Analyzers to all Arch.* projects and "fix" the warnings (which are about 550+. so maybe keep it on the backburner for an "Arch v2.0" release?)

[genaray]

Totally, the warnings are extreme... i actually "adjusted" the code style a few days back, however this only partially removed the warnings :D So this would also require some more work... i did the mistake and started this project with some sort of java like syntax since my rider config fucked up somewhere ^^

[MindSwipe]

Yup, but a lot of them are asinine, StyleCop by default doesn't like it if you omit the braces for a single line if statement (something even MS themselves do), so coming up with a "sane" ruleset would be first priority when adopting StyleCop

[genaray]

Well thats true, i will take care of this soon ^^
However, i just finished the structural changes API... entities can now move between archetypes by adding and removing components from them :)

entity.Add<T>(new T());
entity.Add<T>();
entity.Remove<T>();

[genaray]

Just tested the exclusive queries, nice work ! :)

Besides that, the command buffers were introduced with #24 ^^ Now its probably time to finally look at extensions like a Systems API and co :)