Unity ECS Snippets

Unity ECS/DOTS Snippets for VSCode

Write Unity DOTS code faster with Systems, Components, & Jobs Snippets
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About

Coding in Unity DOTS indroduces new boilerplate that needs to be remembered. From creating components, to shared components, to manged components referencing external resources—just to name a few—there is a lot of repetitive setup code when making each which becomes burdensome. However, this extension provides snippets for creating the boilerplate for most all scripts in Unity DOTS and will continue to expand. Instead of repeatedly typing the same lines 38 line setup for an ISystem with the additional start & stop callbacks, just type "dcsss" and start writting game code in seconds.

ECS Snippets In Action

Snippets

Command	Action
dcs	Create a Unity DOTS System with the ISystem interface
dcsss	Create a Unity DOTS ISystem with onStartRunning & onStopRunning callbacks
dcsb	Create a managed Unity DOTS System with the SystemBase class
dcc	Create a Unity DOTS unmanaged component (recommended if using blittable types)
dcmc	Create a Unity DOTS managed component (only if using NON-blittable types)
dcmcer	Create a Unity DOTS managed component referencing an external resource
dcsc	Create a Unity DOTS unmanaged shared component (for components used on many entities & with the same values)
dcmsc	Create a Unity DOTS managed shared component (for shared components using non-blittable types)
dcj	Create a Unity DOTS Job (no `using Unity.Entities` added with this command, for it is likely added to a System file & not standalone)
dcb	Create a Unity DOTS component baker & its authoring monobehavior class
dcbd	Create a Unity DOTS component baker referencing another data source (i.e. mesh, gameObject, scriptable obj...)
dca	Create a Unity DOTS aspect (used to group related components)
dcrc	Create a Unity Physics (the DOTS package) raycast.

Naming Convention

The commands above all begin with dc standing for "Dots Create ..." which means you can always just type dc and use the dropdown to find or read more about any command. For example, dcsc stands for Dots Create Shared Component.

Supported Version of Unity DOTS

Unity DOTS 1.0.11 (The current production release as of July 2023)

Contributing

Feel free to open a pr on the github repository any time to create new snippets that you want to see! Also if you are not familiar with creating snippets, open up an issue requesting a new snippet 🤝

Contributors

Ashton Dev