Method CreateEntity

CreateEntity(Int32, EntityArchetype)

Create an entity with specified archetype.

Declaration

public Entity CreateEntity(int sortKey, EntityArchetype archetype)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Int32	sortKey	A unique index for each set of commands added to the concurrent command buffer across all parallel jobs writing commands to this buffer. The entityInQueryIndex argument provided by Entities is an appropriate value to use for this parameter. You can calculate a similar index in an IJobChunk by adding the current entity index within a chunk to the Execute(ArchetypeChunk, Int32, Int32) method's firstEntityIndex argument.
EntityArchetype	archetype	The archetype of the new entity.

Returns

Type	Description
Entity

Remarks

Returns the new Entity.

CreateEntity(Int32)

Create an entity with no components.

Declaration

public Entity CreateEntity(int sortKey)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Int32	sortKey	A unique index for each set of commands added to the concurrent command buffer across all parallel jobs writing commands to this buffer. The entityInQueryIndex argument provided by Entities is an appropriate value to use for this parameter. You can calculate a similar index in an IJobChunk by adding the current entity index within a chunk to the Execute(ArchetypeChunk, Int32, Int32) method's firstEntityIndex argument.

Returns

Type	Description
Entity

Remarks

Returns the new Entity.