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Some time ago, I made a post about coding animations in Unity. However, as we are currently on ECS topic, I thought that it might be a cool idea to make a little update to that!
If you haven’t seen the previous post about animations, I highly recommend doing so, before diving here!
Ready?
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Recently, I’ve encountered a problem with rendering sprites with ECS in Unity. And yes, I know, ECS is still in preview but why wouldn’t share some of my experience with it? ?
ECS is a new way of programming in Unity, and I made a post with the introduction to it recently. You can check it here if you didn’t see it already. ?
Back to today’s subject! You might ask, what is the problem with sprites in ECS?
Well… There is nothing like SpriteRenderer which we have now in Unity. This reminds me of the old days when we didn’t have any 2D components… Yeah, it was long ago… ?
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Did you read my last post on ECS in Unity? I did a little introduction to this new approach to programming available with Unity DOTS. It’s “little” different to what we are used to in Unity, but is it a bad thing? Let’s talk!
‼️ Oh, and keep in mind that ECS is still in preview (preview.33 – 0.0.12) at point of writing this post! But it will be fun to revisit it in the future ? ‼️
If you missed whole ECS thing, let me update you! ECS stands for Entity Component System, and it’s part of what is currently known as DOTS, which is Data-Oriented Technology Stack.
There is more to DOTS, but I won’t go deep into it here. Let’s stick to ECS.
Currently, with MonoBehaviours, we are playing in an Object-Oriented environment. With ECS we are going somewhere completely different.
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Are you ready for ECS in Unity? I’m excited about it and couldn’t wait for the final release! Yes, as of now it’s still in preview (preview.33 – 0.0.12 to be exact) so be aware that content of this post might differ in the future.
But this won’t stop us from getting into it! You and I, we are early adopters. ?
ECS stands for Entity Component System, and it’s a new way of programming in Unity oriented on performance first. It’s very different from the current approach with MonoBehaviours, as objects are split into new pieces.
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One of the most important things in programming and only second to using Google is knowledge about debugging your code! Surprisingly not many people know how to do it, so let me show you! This will be an example of how to use Visual Studio for that purpose.
Debugging is a process of finding errors or bugs in the code. There is a lot of different approaches to doing it. Some involve printing a lot of console logs, and others require you to track which code is executed.
Depending on which way you prefer to work, you might need an IDE that has a debugger. Visual Studio has great integration with Unity[link?], so as long as you are using it, you don’t need to worry about it. If you are using something else, you should double check that.
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