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# Objective - Provide a reliable and performant mechanism to allows users to keep components synchronized with external sources: closing/opening sockets, updating indexes, debugging etc. - Implement a generic mechanism to provide mutable access to the world without allowing structural changes; this will not only be used here but is a foundational piece for observers, which are key for a performant implementation of relations. ## Solution - Implement a new type `DeferredWorld` (naming is not important, `StaticWorld` is also suitable) that wraps a world pointer and prevents user code from making any structural changes to the ECS; spawning entities, creating components, initializing resources etc. - Add component lifecycle hooks `on_add`, `on_insert` and `on_remove` that can be assigned callbacks in user code. --- ## Changelog - Add new `DeferredWorld` type. - Add new world methods: `register_component::<T>` and `register_component_with_descriptor`. These differ from `init_component` in that they provide mutable access to the created `ComponentInfo` but will panic if the component is already in any archetypes. These restrictions serve two purposes: 1. Prevent users from defining hooks for components that may already have associated hooks provided in another plugin. (a use case better served by observers) 2. Ensure that when an `Archetype` is created it gets the appropriate flags to early-out when triggering hooks. - Add methods to `ComponentInfo`: `on_add`, `on_insert` and `on_remove` to be used to register hooks of the form `fn(DeferredWorld, Entity, ComponentId)` - Modify `BundleInserter`, `BundleSpawner` and `EntityWorldMut` to trigger component hooks when appropriate. - Add bit flags to `Archetype` indicating whether or not any contained components have each type of hook, this can be expanded for other flags as needed. - Add `component_hooks` example to illustrate usage. Try it out! It's fun to mash keys. ## Safety The changes to component insertion, removal and deletion involve a large amount of unsafe code and it's fair for that to raise some concern. I have attempted to document it as clearly as possible and have confirmed that all the hooks examples are accepted by `cargo miri` as not causing any undefined behavior. The largest issue is in ensuring there are no outstanding references when passing a `DeferredWorld` to the hooks which requires some use of raw pointers (as was already happening to some degree in those places) and I have taken some time to ensure that is the case but feel free to let me know if I've missed anything. ## Performance These changes come with a small but measurable performance cost of between 1-5% on `add_remove` benchmarks and between 1-3% on `insert` benchmarks. One consideration to be made is the existence of the current `RemovedComponents` which is on average more costly than the addition of `on_remove` hooks due to the early-out, however hooks doesn't completely remove the need for `RemovedComponents` as there is a chance you want to respond to the removal of a component that already has an `on_remove` hook defined in another plugin, so I have not removed it here. I do intend to deprecate it with the introduction of observers in a follow up PR. ## Discussion Questions - Currently `DeferredWorld` implements `Deref` to `&World` which makes sense conceptually, however it does cause some issues with rust-analyzer providing autocomplete for `&mut World` references which is annoying. There are alternative implementations that may address this but involve more code churn so I have attempted them here. The other alternative is to not implement `Deref` at all but that leads to a large amount of API duplication. - `DeferredWorld`, `StaticWorld`, something else? - In adding support for hooks to `EntityWorldMut` I encountered some unfortunate difficulties with my desired API. If commands are flushed after each call i.e. `world.spawn() // flush commands .insert(A) // flush commands` the entity may be despawned while `EntityWorldMut` still exists which is invalid. An alternative was then to add `self.world.flush_commands()` to the drop implementation for `EntityWorldMut` but that runs into other problems for implementing functions like `into_unsafe_entity_cell`. For now I have implemented a `.flush()` which will flush the commands and consume `EntityWorldMut` or users can manually run `world.flush_commands()` after using `EntityWorldMut`. - In order to allowing querying on a deferred world we need implementations of `WorldQuery` to not break our guarantees of no structural changes through their `UnsafeWorldCell`. All our implementations do this, but there isn't currently any safety documentation specifying what is or isn't allowed for an implementation, just for the caller, (they also shouldn't be aliasing components they didn't specify access for etc.) is that something we should start doing? (see 10752) Please check out the example `component_hooks` or the tests in `bundle.rs` for usage examples. I will continue to expand this description as I go. See #10839 for a more ergonomic API built on top of this one that isn't subject to the same restrictions and supports `SystemParam` dependency injection. |
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What is Bevy?
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!
WARNING
Bevy is still in the early stages of development. Important features are missing. Documentation is sparse. A new version of Bevy containing breaking changes to the API is released approximately once every 3 months. We provide migration guides, but we can't guarantee migrations will always be easy. Use only if you are willing to work in this environment.
MSRV: Bevy relies heavily on improvements in the Rust language and compiler. As a result, the Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV) is generally close to "the latest stable release" of Rust.
Design Goals
- Capable: Offer a complete 2D and 3D feature set
- Simple: Easy for newbies to pick up, but infinitely flexible for power users
- Data Focused: Data-oriented architecture using the Entity Component System paradigm
- Modular: Use only what you need. Replace what you don't like
- Fast: App logic should run quickly, and when possible, in parallel
- Productive: Changes should compile quickly ... waiting isn't fun
About
- Features: A quick overview of Bevy's features.
- News: A development blog that covers our progress, plans and shiny new features.
Docs
- Quick Start Guide: Bevy's official Quick Start Guide. The best place to start learning Bevy.
- Bevy Rust API Docs: Bevy's Rust API docs, which are automatically generated from the doc comments in this repo.
- Official Examples: Bevy's dedicated, runnable examples, which are great for digging into specific concepts.
- Community-Made Learning Resources: More tutorials, documentation, and examples made by the Bevy community.
Community
Before contributing or participating in discussions with the community, you should familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct.
- Discord: Bevy's official discord server.
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- Bevy Assets: A collection of awesome Bevy projects, tools, plugins and learning materials.
Contributing
If you'd like to help build Bevy, check out the Contributor's Guide. For simple problems, feel free to open an issue or PR and tackle it yourself!
For more complex architecture decisions and experimental mad science, please open an RFC (Request For Comments) so we can brainstorm together effectively!
Getting Started
We recommend checking out the Quick Start Guide for a brief introduction.
Follow the Setup guide to ensure your development environment is set up correctly. Once set up, you can quickly try out the examples by cloning this repo and running the following commands:
# Switch to the correct version (latest release, default is main development branch)
git checkout latest
# Runs the "breakout" example
cargo run --example breakout
To draw a window with standard functionality enabled, use:
use bevy::prelude::*;
fn main(){
App::new()
.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)
.run();
}
Fast Compiles
Bevy can be built just fine using default configuration on stable Rust. However for really fast iterative compiles, you should enable the "fast compiles" setup by following the instructions here.
Bevy Cargo Features
This list outlines the different cargo features supported by Bevy. These allow you to customize the Bevy feature set for your use-case.
Thanks
Bevy is the result of the hard work of many people. A huge thanks to all Bevy contributors, the many open source projects that have come before us, the Rust gamedev ecosystem, and the many libraries we build on.
A huge thanks to Bevy's generous sponsors. Bevy will always be free and open source, but it isn't free to make. Please consider sponsoring our work if you like what we're building.
This project is tested with BrowserStack.
License
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- MIT License (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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at your option. This means you can select the license you prefer! This dual-licensing approach is the de-facto standard in the Rust ecosystem and there are very good reasons to include both.
Some of the engine's code carries additional copyright notices and license terms due to their external origins.
These are generally BSD-like, but exact details vary by crate:
If the README of a crate contains a 'License' header (or similar), the additional copyright notices and license terms applicable to that crate will be listed.
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For example, bevy_mikktspace has code under the Zlib license (as well as a copyright notice when choosing the MIT license).
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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.