Does Dots work with Universal Render Pipeline for 2D ?

[Brainshack]

Hey,

just wondering if I can use ECS with the Universal Render Pipeline for 2D? I read that ECS has no conversion for Sprites yet and now I am wondering if there maybe is some sort of Hybrid aproach to use Game Objects for Rendering?

[Shadow007]

Yes you can do ECS in 2D. There are some good tutorials on the Unity Code Monkey site to get started with the basics of how you might do it. Here is 2 examples (there are others on working with ECS and sprites):

Draw a Sprite with ECS in Unity 2019 - Code Monkey

Simple Sprite Sheet Animation in Unity ECS - Code Monkey

Also there is a thread here on the forums about rendering lots of sprites with animations which is a little more complex but also more efficient (there are 3 sprite rendering systems in this thread, two on github):

200k dynamic animated sprites at 80fps

Hi guys, today I finished my sprite sheet system using a custom shader, compute buffers and DrawMeshInstancedIndirect, to FAST render, a lot of object with a single draw call. I would like to know what approach are you using, to share some knowledge about this topic since there is no "official" implementation of a sprite sheet system with ECS yet. I'll post my source code later this afternoon [image] Feature: Each entity can have different: Sprite, Color, Position, Scale, Rotatio…

Those should get you started. I’ve just started working on 2D recently as well, enjoy!