This thread was off-topic in the Game Design and Theory forum. What is Game Design? This thread is now in the Engines and Middleware forum. (Note that another mod or admin might disagree with my choice and move it to yet another forum.) @scruthut  I'm not a programmer, so I cannot offer any us…

Karatakos said:
I perhaps have not been clear enough, but the approach I’m taking is quite common, i.e. Quake 3 state snapshots.

The approach WAS quite common in the late 90's 25 years ago, yes. It was also an era when 4 players was hard and 16 players was extreme and AAA, and a “high bandwidth” conn…

I second Juliean,
To me the meshdata isn't an actual game data, it is just an asset like a texture of some sorts. It should then be loaded, stored and destroyed only by the associated library. Graphically-wise (just made that up) your components are just here to keep track of what's happing in the s…

@hplus0603 @frob  Hey there! 

I just went through both of your messages. There's obviously precious insight in both, but I believe I will have to iterate on the implementation to consolidate my understanding. I imagine I could question or challenge some aspects, but that'd require a hindsi…

just for some closure, upon further research i found that a true ECS isn't really feasible in unreal engine without extensive modification of source of code - though in my case I was only looking at these different programming structures for benefit of maintainability. Low-level optimizations isn't…

Unity Visual Effect Graph Instancing – Property Binder Component: Point Cache Unity’s Visual Effect Graph system can be a powerful tool

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