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Month: November 2019

ECO Telemetry (final exam)

ECO Telemetry (final exam)

As I have previously mentioned in my posts about AI and data collection/analysis, many of the prototypes showcased on this website were developed for the purpose of being implemented into a complete project. That is what my final exam became. We named it “ECO Telemetry”, which was fancier than “weird animals eating mushrooms and running for their lives simulator.” We built a simulated ecosystem, complete with herbivores, carnivores and plants. The big twist was that the animals are capable of…

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Scene editing and ECS conversion

Scene editing and ECS conversion

When working with the DOTS framework and implementation of ECS, you’ll quickly realize that there is currently very little in the way of scene editing. Entities might render, but you can’t interact with them in the scene editor. The workaround for this problem allows for the conversion of a scene, into entities. However, any traditionally written code (using monobehaviour, that is) will be lost in translation. This article covers how you should write your code in ECS and attach it…

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