Unity DOTS

Since I started my new gig at 10 Chambers, I also started using Unity DOTS. After more than a year of using DOTS in a professional capacity, I still have mixed feelings about it.

Burst Compiler

I want to inspect the implications of using Run(), Schedule() and ScheduleParallel(). I still don't understand the underlying implications of using them

Obsolete

This post is going to be a summary of the official Entities package document, kind of a cheat-sheet.

The following operations are considered structural changes:

Creating or destroying an entity
Adding or removing components
Setting a shared component value

Physics

All physics objects that are in the scene but outside the subscene will be ignored since they don't get converted to entities.
A World organises entities into isolated groups. A World owns both an EntityManager and a set of Sytems. In a multiplayer game, it makes sense that client and server are different Worlds.