I wonder is authoring is best practice for creating entities or should I use EntityManager?
#Is authoring best practice?
willow halo
willow halo
Authoring
I'm asking to confirm, would it be a correct approach to create a prefab for every entity in my game, such as characters, enemies, buildings, and put an authoring script in it, thus spawning this prefab? I'm wondering how I should establish the relationship between Entity and GameObjects. For example, I will spawn an enemy and the enemy has certain components. How should I approach this situation? Also, which component should I use to render an entity?
last path
Authoring
I use authoring to create prefab entities and EM to create actual entities in batch, does it count as a bad practice? Hmm.
thorn silo
are you not making the actual entities in batch from an authored prefab?
last path
are you not making the actual entities in batch from an authored prefab?
I instantiate them using the prefab entity. I don't compose the entity archetype at runtime. Wait does the OP mean that? 🤔
thorn silo
that's how i took the question
but if it's not then yeah em is fine to instantiate prefabs
creating entities while baking is actually super awkward
last path
how I should establish the relationship between Entity and GameObjects.
You don't establish any relationship between entity and gameobject. GameObjects inside a subscene are just a friendly way to prepare data for your ECS world. Think of them as temporary placeholder for your data, nothing more.
After a subscene is fully baked, it becomes a blob of native data, GameObjects don't live there and will all vanish.