ECS: Create entity "prefabs"

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ECS: Create entity "prefabs"

Opened this issue 2 years ago · 2 comments

Entity "prefabs" would be a collection of components that could be added to an entity. For example, if we wanted to create an "lamp" entity that always needed a Position, Renderable, Interactable, and Light component, we could just add the collection of components to the entity, rather than needing to add every component individually.

Answer 1 · 2023-04-15T08:01:20.000Z

Yeah I've been wanting to do this a lot, do you have an API that you're working on?

Answer 2 · 2023-04-15T23:14:22.000Z

https://github.com/AetherInteractiveLtd/Tina/tree/feat-prefabs

This was an initial idea, where we basically just store them as an array of components. This was from a while back; I just pulled out my stash. I never properly figured out if this was the best approach though.