2 views at once

[NitroPlum]

Hey, im looking at ECS options and I really love how this looks. Is it possible in an update to get 2 views so you can test a list of entities vs another. Bad psuedocode example:

var bullets = new View<Projectile, Collider>();
var enemies = new View<Enemy, Collider>();

for(bullet in bullets) {
  for(enemy in enemies) {
    // If the bullet is touching the enemy, kill it
  }
}

[player-03]

Absolutely!

var bullets = Echoes.getView(Projectile, Collider);
var enemies = Echoes.getView(Enemy, Collider);

for(bullet in bullets) {
  for(enemy in enemies) {
    // If the bullet is touching the enemy, kill it
  }
}

Alternatively, if you're in a System, you can call getLinkedView(Projectile, Collider), which works the same but shuts down the View if the system is deactivated.

[NitroPlum]

Sweet! I'm working on a personal framework atm and am about to be using this a ton. Do you foresee the api changing too much? Obviously it's in an RC state atm but not sure what your plans are. @player-03

[player-03]

I'm still doing breaking changes, but they're getting smaller over time. The latest wave addresses edge cases and performance, and the biggest recent change was changing List to Array. There might be similar changes going forwards, and I'll make sure to keep documenting them. I think I'm pretty happy with class and function names (though if you have better suggestions, get them in before 1.0.0).

Other than that, the biggest question is what it will take to fix the compiler issues. Maybe it'll be simple, or maybe I'll have to overhaul ComponentStorage and EntityTemplateBuilder.