Proper way to restart a game

Hi Simon et all,

I just finished a 4 hour long migration from Entitas 0.26.1 to 0.37.0 and it wasn’t half as bad as I thought.

Loving the new features and improvements, but something that I’ve noticed is that I’ve lost the old way of restarting a game. I used to be able to call the following snippet:

Pools.pool.ClearGroups();
systems.DeactivateReactiveSystems();
Pools.pool.DestroyAllEntities();
Pools.pool.ResetCreationIndex();

Right now it seems to me that I have to do the same for all contexts but that seems kind of error prone, I might be able to forget some.

I also don’t know how to handle the generated indices and blueprints.

Any insight on this?

Thanks 😃

[trumpets]

Thanks for the info @sschmid 😃 I’ll do a PR removing the ClearGroups() from Reset() and also adding Contexts.Reset() in the next day or so 😃

[sschmid]

When you’re systems are written correctly, you can even reuse the systems. With written correctly I mean, in case you cache any state within a system, that you do that within the Initialize method. So all you need to do is call systems.Initialize() and systems.ActivateReactiveSystems() again, but you can reuse the contexts and systems.

But of course, it’s also alright to just create everything from scratch again, depends on the use case. Personally I try to reuse the objects.