Entities Spawner Example

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https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.3/manual/ecs-workflow-create-systems.html

Hey all, I am new to DOTS and I am going through the spawner example, I followed the steps and I can see the entities being generated from my prefab in the Entity Hierarchy view but I do not see it appearing on my view port? Am I suppose to render them out manually and explicitly somehow with the Entities Graphics library or something?

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do you have entities graphics installed?

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update it seems it doesn't appear on the scene tab but it appears on my game camera view

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yes

is this normal where my prefab or entity in this case only appears in game, is there a way to view my spawned objects in the viewport in realtime?

cuz that would be annoying if I can't and I seen videos that its possible

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go to preferences, entities, under scene view mode change from authoring to runtime

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thanks, that helped, but dang why is it hidden like that and why is the default authoring? is what it is.

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you have your subscene open

so what it means is its rendering as gameobjects inside the subscene

not the baked entity

but if you are runtime spawning entities they don't exist in the subscene so you don't see it

personally i leave it on runtime 99% of time

so yeah i agree, it's weird that default is authoring

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oh so does that mean I usually have to have the subscene closed?

or it doesn't matter?

you know what scratch that I think I get it now so dumb question, when not in runtime its being rendered as game objects in my subscene butentities only get baked and rendered during runtime so make sense it only appears in runtime.

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entities get baked in editor

in builds (actual runtime) baking doesn't exist

they only get baked in runtime in editor if baking hasn't finished before you enter play mode, or you load something baking wasn't aware of as no direct reference from scene