Learn Unity’s Entity Component System with DOTS

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Unity’s Entity-Component-System is mighty powerful allowing you to dramatically increase the number of game objects in a scene without sacrificing on performance. How it all works though to the everyday Unity developer can tend to look like magic.  The entire paradigm is completely different to the usual procedural or object orientated approach

In this course ECS and DOTS will be demystified and you will learn how to optimise your games and game objects to use this new programming technique with many hands-on and step-by-step tutorials.

Course Information

Estimated Time: 13 Hours, 75 Lectures

Difficulty: Intermediate

Course Instructor

Penny de Byl Penny de Byl Author

I’m a full stack developer of most things computer sciency and academic with a true passion for teaching.  I’ve been teaching others about games development, programming, computer graphics, animation and web design for over 25 years in universities in Australia and Europe at the full professor level. I’ve also consulted for Unity, SAE, the Australian Institute of Entertainment and Wikitude. My best selling textbooks including Holistic Game Development with Unity are used in over 100 institutions world-wide. My graduates work at companies like Apple, Ubisoft, LinkedIn and Deloitte Digital.

 

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Introduction

ECS Welcome
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What Version of Unity Should I Use?
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Information Relevant to this Course
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Join the H3D Student Community
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FAQs
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DOTS in a Nutshell

Understanding DOTS
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Comparing the Old & the New Part 1
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Comparing the Old & the New Part 2
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Comparing the Old & the New Part 3
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Comparing the Old & the New Part 4
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Comparing the Old & the New Part 5
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Your First ECS Challenge
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Parallel Computing
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Structures, Classes and Blittable Types
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Working with Entities

Creating and Debugging Entities
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Accessing and Modifying Entity Data
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Adding IComponentData Challenge
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Performing Entity Queries
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Entity Query Interface Challenge
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Adding an Entity from Monobehaviour at Runtime
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Constructing an Entity from Scratch
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Constructing Sheep Entities from a Mesh Challenge
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Transformation Mathematics in DOTS

Performing Translations
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Performing Rotations
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Performing a Slerp to Face a Target
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Rotating Around a Pivot Point
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Pivoting Challenge
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Working with Custom Components

Getting Player Transformations into Entities
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Adding and Setting Data Values in a Custom Components
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Updating Custom Component Values
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Waypoint Follow Challenge
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Project: Space Wars SImulation

Finding Closest Planet
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Attacking and Retreat Movement
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Spawning an Entity from an Entity Part 1
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Spawning and Entity from an Entity Part 2
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Spawning Entities from Another Location Part 1
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Spawning Entities from Another Location Part 2
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Restricting the Lifetime of an Entity
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Implementing Line of Sight in an Entity
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Faking Collisions
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Instantiating Explosions
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A System for Scaling Particles
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Project: Infinite Cube World

Creating a Landscape with Cubes
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Using Perlin Noise for Height
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Enhanced Perlin Heights
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Changing Materials on an EntityYou usuall
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Identifying Bottlenecks and Solutions to FPS Drop
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Scrolling the Landscape with the Player
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DOTS Physics

The Physics Components
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An ECS Physics-Based Character Controller
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Spawning Multiple Physics Entities
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Shooting Physics Bullets Challenge
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Moving a Bullet with Physics
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Upgrading a Package
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Detecting Collisions
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Using Custom Values in a Collision Event
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Destroying an Entity on Collision
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Entity Tracking with the Camera
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Detecting Physics Triggers
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Converting to a Dynamic Character
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Using Custom Values in a Trigger Event
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ECS Physics Settings – info Sheet to update
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Raycasting

Starting with a Tower Defence Setup
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Performing a Raycast Hit Part 1
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Performing a Raycast Hit Part 2
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Destroying an Entity Hit by a Raycast
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Performing Raycast Distance Hits P1
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Performing Raycast Distance Hits P2
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Locating and Following The Closest Physics Entity
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Destroying Tracked Physics Entity
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Destroying Zombie Challenge P1
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Destroying Zombie Challenge P2
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Final Words

ECS A Final Word From Penny
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