bevy

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?

In games, tiles often need to store extra data. For example, in Minecraft, blocks have block states and block entity data.

Describe the solution would you like?

I would like Tilemap and Tile to be generic over T, allowing us to attach additional data T to each Tile. This could be something like this:

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When the raycast source isn't a camera, and you mess up where it's pointing, it would be useful to have a debug cursor on that source that points in the direction that it's casting.

I think using time to animate things in shaders is such a basic thing to want that it should probably just always be available. It allows implementing really cool stuff with very little effort.

Also, the performance overhead of needlessly adding the time uniform when not used is probably very low (but should double check this)

@omphalosprime did this in their fork: https://github.com/omphalo