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Hi i just wanna know if it is possible to use an Entity Command Buffer outside of ECS to instantiate/configure objects?. I use ECS for one kind of objects in my game and i wanna instantiate up to hundreds of them at the same time from a gameobject or coroutine.
Is it possible to do that ? If possible can you help me figure this out ?
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Hi i just wanna know if it is possible to use an Entity Command Buffer outside o...
There's no point in doing that. It would be the same as if you instantiate them in a loop normally.
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So using an entitymanager would be the same performance ?
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Yes.
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Okay but just to know, why you use ECB inside ECS ? whats the purpose
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Command buffers are for deferring execution to the main thread. There are operations, like instantiating entities that can't be done on background threads, but they can be scheduled to execute on the main thread via a command buffer.
It is an important part of the whole ecs/jobs thing.
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Ahh okay so its just for synchronisation then
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Yes