This makes it possible for hierarchies to clean themselves up (by
deleting their entities (though that will cause other problems later
when the hierarchy doesn't own the entities)), thus plugging a memory
leak when parsing passage text.
The main goal of this change was to make it easier to tell when a
hierarchy has been deleted, but as a side benefit, it got rid of the use
of PR_RESMAP. Also, it's easy to track the number of hierarchies.
Unfortunately, it showed how brittle the component side of the ECS is
(scene and canvas registries assumed their components were the first (no
long the case), thus the sweeping changes).
Centerprint doesn't work (but it hasn't for a while).
This allows components to display themselves in the UI. Because the
component meta-data is copied into the registry, the function pointer
can be updated by systems (eg, the renderers) to display system-specific
interpretations of the component.
Subpools are for grouping components by some criterion. Any component
that has a rangeid callback will be grouped with other components that
return the same render id. Note that the ordering of components within a
group will be affected by adding a component into a group that comes
before that group (or removing a component).
Component pools can have multiple groups, added and removed dynamically,
but removing a group should (currently) be done only when empty.
There's now a main ecs.h file that includes the sub-system headers,
removing the need to explicitly include several header files, but the
sub-systems are a less cluttered.
This means that the component id used for hierarchy references must be
passed to Hierarchy_New and Hierarchy_Copy, but does all an entity to
have more than one hierarchy, which is useful for canvases (hierarchies
of views) in the 3d world (the canvas root would have a 3d hierarchy
reference and a 2d (view) hierarchy reference).
While simple component pools can be cleared simply by zeroing their
counts, ones that have a delete function need that function to be called
for all the components in the pool otherwise leaks can happen.
As the bookkeeping data is spread between three arrays, sorting a
component pool is not trivial and thus not something to duplicate around
the codebase.
It doesn't check that the entity itself is valid, but it does at least
check that the index fetched from the sparse array is valid. Fixes a
segfault when a valid entity never had the component.
While the libraries are probably getting a little out of hand, the
separation into its own directory is probably a good thing as an ECS
should not be tied to scenes. This should make the ECS more generally
useful.
2022-10-26 17:24:03 +09:00
Renamed from include/QF/scene/component.h (Browse further)
