EHU Final Year Project / R&D Dissertation

Is Unity D.O.T.S worth using from a developer perspective?

What is this Project about?

This Project Artefact of utilising Unity D.O.T.S (ECS, C# Job System and Burst Compiler) has looked into seeing the optimisation capabilities of Unity's new D.O.T.S framework / tech stack to see whether or not from a developer's point of view is worth utilising and learning to increase performance of their game as a Development Method?

What does this Project Contain?

This Project contains various prototypes both using Traditional Methods of Optimisation (For Speed) and prototypes utilising the Data-Oriented-Design Approach with Use of ECS, C# Job-System and Burst Compiler.

These Prototypes have been profiled, tested and compared with each other.

Where is the report?

Check it out over on my google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/12zyQWynkGm39f1v0wpAmGwmQffFuDtQx/view?usp=sharing

Unity Version Used For This Project

• Unity 2019.3.0f6

Sample Screenshots

Dependancies Used

These Utilities / Libraries can be found within the Unity Package Manager.

• Burst Compiler - 1.2.1 (latest)
• Entities - preview version 0.5.1
• Collections - preview version 0.5.1
• Jobs - preview 0.2.4
• Custom NUnit - preview version 0.5.1
• Mathematics - 1.1.0
• Mono Cecil - preview version 0.1.6
• Performance Testing API - preview version 1.3.3
• Unity Physics - preview 0.2.5

Current Build Progress (4 / 4): Completed

• Unoptimised Prototype
• Traditional Prototype
• ECS Only Prototype
• ECS WITH JOBS Prototype

Current Research Progress

• Survey Sent And Recieved Feedback (101 Responses)
• Survey Analysed
• Email Interviews Sent
• Email Interviews Analysed
• Focus Group Completed
• Focus Group Transcribed
• Focus Group Analysed
• Profiling and Recording of Performances

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