Questions tagged [unity-job-system]
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How do I get a Unity Job to update external data?
I'm relatively new to Unity, and I wanted to use the Job system for a complex pathfinding algorithm, since it will likely be used alongside multiple instances of NPCs attempting to find a valid route. ...
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Preventing "pass through" situations properly when using ECS based collision detection
package versions I'm using:
Entities: com.unity.entities Version 0.51.1-preview.21
Documentation URL: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html
Physics: com.unity....
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How to use Unity job system to do background work spanning multiple frames?
I have a slow level generation algorithm that freezes the main thread when it runs.
I found this post which is exactly the same problem, but predates the Jobs system.
All the jobs examples I found are ...
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Passing a string as argument to Unity Job System
I have a Job that needs to take some string from main thread and use it locally.
Considering that the Job System cannot directly accept the string as an argument, is there any workaround to circumvent ...
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Using Unity Jobs to encode file to PNG and then save it on Main Thread
I have a following code , and i can not retrive encoded Output from Job.
If I Use JOB :
The result is not a valid png file. What I get is a 67,2 MB file which can not be opened with any image editor ...
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Speed up Reaction-Diffusion simulation calculations in Unity
I'm trying to use Unity Job system to speed up some calculation related to Reaction-Diffusion simulation. The calculations requires 2 matrixes, current and ...
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How to return an unknown amount of data from a parallel job? (C# Jobs + Burst)
Say we have a parallel job (implementing IJobParallelFor) which requires a large array (>100,000 items) as an input to do some complicated processing. After said ...
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C# Jobs + Burst executing slowly (bottleneck?)
I'm trying to make a system where the player can do a RTS-like drag-to-select of tiles in a box to mark trees to be chopped or ores to be mined.
I'm testing this system on a large scale, possibly ...
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Should I dispose a NativeArray on application quit?
I have a NativeArray which stays alive during the whole game, using the Persistent allocator. Should I dispose it inside an <...
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Scene Tab doesn't show anything beside canvas while Game Tab shows everything
i've been building my script normally, but suddently after the last build, i don't see any GameObject Rendered in Scene Tab beside a canvas i have in another scene. I can see everything rendered in my ...
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How can I call Schedule() on interface that inherits from IJob
So I have a voxel terrain engine, and I have an interface that all meshing jobs should inherit from. That looks like this (simplified from the actual):
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Worker threads are not being utilized in Time rewind system, is this job system really multi-threaded?
I am trying to make a simple time rewind mechanic. It's working but it becomes slower as number of game objects increases. I decided to give Job System a shot. My idea is to interpolate between ...
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When to use NativeArray over List or Array?
I have been reading about NativeArray, but I have to admit I do not understand it.
From the documentation:
A NativeArray exposes a buffer of native memory to managed code, making it possible to ...
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