Custom block component resources

Create a custom block component resource (visual only)
  1. Create a game object prefab.
  2. Add GBlockComponentEntityDataProxy to it.
  3. Alternatively, create your own class that inherits from GBlockComponentEntityDataProxy  and use your own enums.
  4. Give the prefab an Id and SubId (these are for indexing the resources).

Add a custom block component resource to the baker
  1. Search for the subscene called SubS_Template and duplicate it.
  2. Open the duplicated subscene.
  3. Click on the BlockComponentSpawner 
  4. Drag custom block component resource to the BlockComponents list.

Register a block component data for runtime use
It’s important to understand the visual resource includes just the Code and SubCode. These codes are used to index data associated with the block component. It’s necessary for a block component’s resource to be available at runtime in order to create a block component.
  1. In code, create a map component data with the same ComponentId and Style Code as its corresponding custom block component resource.
  2. I typically create a separate class for each unique map component data.
  3. At runtime (e.g. in Start() of a script) call the 
GEntityUtilities.AddMapComponent(mapComponentData)
Method to register the map component data.

Voila! Now that you’ve created a custom block component, are baking the entity resource, and registering the data associated with the block component, you can instantiate block components on the environment.

  • Check out the BlockComponents sample to see how I set up the subscene, inherit block componentE proxies, register the map components, and instantiate block components at runtime.