Upcoming Apparatus Features

These are features planned for Apparatus, our most beloved data-driven ECS framework for Unreal Engine.

• A new concept of a simpler USTRUCT-based detail type called trait. Custom low-level cache-friendly chunk memory management without garbage collection. A more narrow approach, doesn’t support multi-details, inheritance, UObject references, should be used in performance-critical mechanisms. (early- or mid-May)
• Official cross-platform benchmarking and performance comparison tool. (late May – early June)
• High-count crowd-simulating sample to demonstrate the performance capabilities of the tech.
• More documentation, articles, tutorials, samples to cover different usage scenarios and help the user to bootstrap their projects the Apparatus way.
• Provide for some thread-safety techniques. Perhaps, define some scopes for belts/chunks to operate on them in parallel.
• Optimized built-in details (and traits) for collision-detection, user input and some other common logic.
• A simple client/server game sample to demonstrate the framework usage in a network scenario.
• Experiment with immediate mode rendering to bypass the Unreal’s world actors completely.