olive vine
Some quick background, I have block entities which will always have a parent so that their position is relative to the parents position. I have a simple authoring script for the blocks:
public class BlockAuthoring : MonoBehaviour
{
public class BlockBaker : Baker<BlockAuthoring>
{
public override void Bake(BlockAuthoring authoring)
{
var entity = GetEntity(TransformUsageFlags.Dynamic);
AddComponent<Parent>(entity);
}
}
}
I also have a DefaultVariantSystem to sync the Parent component with clients:
[GhostComponentVariation(typeof(Parent), "NetworkParent")]
[GhostComponent(PrefabType = GhostPrefabType.All, SendTypeOptimization = GhostSendType.AllClients)]
public struct NetworkParent : IComponentData
{
[GhostField] public Entity Value;
}
internal sealed partial class DefaultVariantSystem : DefaultVariantSystemBase
{
protected override void RegisterDefaultVariants(Dictionary<ComponentType, Rule> defaultVariants)
{
defaultVariants.Add(typeof(Parent), Rule.OnlyParents(typeof(NetworkParent)));
}
}
When this prefab entity is created it does not have the Parent component, unless I also add a Rigidbody to the GameObject its being baked from (See images, first one is without rigidbody attached, second one is with rigidbody attached).
I could add the component when actually instantiating the entity, but I need it in the prefab so that a client will have the component when the server instantiate the prefab.
Of course I could for example add a tag component and then have a system manually adding the Parent component to all entities with the tag, but I'd like to understand why the Parent component is not baked in seemingly for no reason.
