Help me standalone? And how to EASY PZ take a GameObject Game and make it Entity

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I’ve compiled standalone DOTS/ECS before, but something changed recently I think with .50 that will not let me make a standalone build, or it has something to do with assets I need to bring over manually… I’m guessing ojne of those two. Enjoy a cool video:

Bonus I share: where I share some wisdom of how to make your popular GameObject game have levels with DOTS ecs no sweat. Short: One player controller for GameObject, you hijack it for entities, make gameobject invisible, grab entity position/rotation/velocity at the start and then do your gameobject player controller junk on the invisible gameobject and at the end, feed the rotation/velocity to the active entity… DOn’t feed position or it messes up the physics system.

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bump?

I spent a year and over 500 hours on ECS/DOTS. I have a final game.

Can someone help me make a standalone?

,Jim

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U need to post some details about this crash. Without it it is hard to tell what went wrong.

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I posted a video about it. I try and run, it crashes. That’s all I know.

Another forum said to check these files: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html

I think they’re on to something. Which one has relevant data and what should I be looking for? Probably crash logs. I probably have to run in debug mode too then.

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From Player.Log:

Initializing input.

Input initialized.

Initialized touch support.

The file ‘C:/UnityProjectfiles/StarfighterGeneralOnSteam/Builds/WindowsClassicBuildConfiguration 3/Starfighter General_Data/level0’ is corrupted! Remove it and launch unity again!
[Position out of bounds!]

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Are you building using a scriptable build config asset? I am guessing you are just going to file and build? Probably need to do it with the asset file.

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Also check the AssetImportWorker logs. The process that writes those logs can fail, and I have seen that lead to the errors you are seeing.

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I cannot find this on the disk. Does it export to disk?

Wait, I have many addressables. Wasn’t there something weird with em where I need to manually copy folders to standalone?

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I don’t even have a level0 anywhere in my project which is weird.
I backed up my project.
I deleted library.
I closed unity.
I opened Unity.
2 hours later it was rebuilt, and level 0 there. I don’t get that.

I deleted level0 from my standalone D:\starfighter\starfighter_Data folder.

I got a new error, game does not immediately crash, but does not play.

It loads up with a debugger console which directs me to this: Mono path[0] = 'D:/starfighter/starfighter_Data/Managed'Mono config path = 'D: - Pastebin.com

Key error message:

AssertionException: Ensure TypeManager.Initialize has been called before using the TypeManager
Assertion failure. Value was False
Expected: True

Would this mean I’m using DOTS entities before its loaded or something? This could be an error expected for faster run times locally standalone vs editor.

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I think I just responded to your Reddit post too but just in case it helps someone else. I had this issue (same error stack) and adding the DISABLE_ENTITIES_JOURNALING scripting define for a debug build worked for me.

The Editor menu options for journaling do not affect exported builds.

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