Ways to schedule data changes
The entity component system (ECS) has the following ways to manage structural changes within your project:
The difference between the two options are as follows:
- If you want to queue up structural changes from a job, you must use an ECB.
- If you want to perform structural changes on the main thread, and have them happen instantly, use the methods in
EntityManager
.
- If you want to perform structural changes on the main thread, and you want them to happen at a later point (such as after a job completes), use an ECB.
- The changes recorded in an ECB only are applied when
Playback
is called on the main thread. If you try to record any further changes to the ECB after playback, then Unity throws an exception.
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