On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:46:34 UTC, Jonathan wrote:
Kiith-Sa, thanks for the info! I started to check out your
entity project and love how your incorporating threads and
syncing new/old state. You did state that your cleaning up
things, but my initial reaction is that entitymanager is
performing too many roles. I'd remove the heavy game state and
threading into another class to make it cleaner, imho.
https://github.com/kiith-sa/tharsis-core/blob/master/source/tharsis/entity/entitymanager.d
Yeah, the threading is currently the most work-in-progress thing
(basically, I'm dealing with tradeoffs between trying to get the
best average performance and least latency from non-realtime OS
scheduling).
EntityManager is pretty much the kitchen-sink class where things
exist until they are refactored away (most of Tharsis code used
to be there at some point in the past). It will probably end up
just as a shell delegating to all internals regarding
entit/component management and process execution. However,
EntityManager API itself is more complicated than needed for most
users (and needs to be used together with other classes which add
to the complexity) - it, together with other 'low-level' API
classes will probably eventually be hidden behind a more
user-friendly facade (yeah, I hate design patterns, but that's
pretty much what it will be), with the ability to access
EntityManager/others for more advanced users.
