Karatakos said:
I perhaps have not been clear enough, but the approach I’m taking is quite common, i.e. Quake 3 state snapshots.

The approach WAS quite common in the late 90's 25 years ago, yes. It was also an era when 4 players was hard and 16 players was extreme and AAA, and a “high bandwidth” conn…

I second Juliean,
To me the meshdata isn't an actual game data, it is just an asset like a texture of some sorts. It should then be loaded, stored and destroyed only by the associated library. Graphically-wise (just made that up) your components are just here to keep track of what's happing in the s…

@hplus0603 @frob  Hey there! 

I just went through both of your messages. There's obviously precious insight in both, but I believe I will have to iterate on the implementation to consolidate my understanding. I imagine I could question or challenge some aspects, but that'd require a hindsi…

just for some closure, upon further research i found that a true ECS isn't really feasible in unreal engine without extensive modification of source of code - though in my case I was only looking at these different programming structures for benefit of maintainability. Low-level optimizations isn't…

@aressera Thank you! That sounds like the best solution. I will definitely try it. Thank you. 

But if you plan to use it for spawning a large number of effects at the same time, performance quickly becomes an issue.

Say, for instance, you want to use Visual E…

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