Planck, an ECS Scheduler

An Agnostic Scheduler, inspired by Bevy Schedules and Flecs Pipelines and Phases.

Important

The Planck Scheduler and it's plugins are currently in development! This means that they are not uploaded to Wally just yet.

v0.1.0 of this library will release when Roblox TypeScript typings are added as well as a Plugin to support the Matter Debugger.

Installation

You can install Planck with Wally

[dependencies]
Planck = "yetanotherclown/[email protected]"

Basics

Phases

A Phase is just a tag you can assign to your systems, it's a way to order systems as a group.

local myPhase = Phase.new("debugName")

scheduler
    :insert(myPhase, RunService, "Heartbeat")
    :addSystems(systemA, myPhase)

Pipelines

A Pipeline is a group of ordered phases. Each phase will run in the fixed order to which each Phase was passed to it.

local myPipeline = Pipeline.new()
    :insert(phaseA)
    :insert(phaseB)
    :insert(phaseC)

scheduler
    :insert(myPipeline, RunService, "Heartbeat")

Built-in Pipelines & Phases

Startup

Systems on these phases will run exactly once, before any other phase runs.

• PreStartup
• Startup
• PostStartup

local Planck = require("@packages/Planck")
local Phase = Planck.Phase

local PreStartup = Phase.PreStartup
local Startup = Phase.Startup
local PostStartup = Phase.PostStartup

Engine Events

These Phases are ran on Engine RunService Events, events are ran in the order listed.

Event	Phase
PreRender	PreRender
PreAnimation	PreAnimation
PreSimulation	PreSimulation
PostSimulation	PostSimulation
Heartbeat	Update

local Planck = require("@packages/Planck")
local Phase = Planck.Phase

local PreRender = Phase.PreRender
local PreAnimation = Phase.PreAnimation
local PreSimulation = Phase.PreSimulation
local PostSimulation = Phase.PostSimulation
local Update = Phase.Update

Main

The Main Pipeline will run phases on the RunService.Heartbeat event.

• First
• PreUpdate
• Update
• PostUpdate
• Last

local Planck = require("@packages/Planck")
local Phase = Planck.Phase

local First = Phase.First
local PreUpdate = Phase.PreUpdate
local Update = Phase.Update
local PostUpdate = Phase.PostUpdate
local Last = Phase.Last

Systems

A system is just a function, or it could be a system table.

local systemA = {
    phase = myPhase,
    system = function()
        -- ...
    end,
}

local function systemB()
    -- ...
end

scheduler
    :addSystems(systemA)
    :addSystems(systemB, myPhase)

The Scheduler

The Scheduler is where you initialize all your Pipelines, Phases, and Systems.

local Planck = require("@packages/Planck")

local Phase = Planck.Phase
local Pipeline = Planck.Pipeline
local Scheduler = Planck.Scheduler

local PreUpdate = Phase.new()
local Update = Phase.new()
local PostUpdate = Phase.new()

local UpdatePipeline = Pipeline.new()
	:insert(PreUpdate)
	:insert(Update)
	:insert(PostUpdate)

local Render = Phase.new()

local scheduler = scheduler.new(world)
    :insert(UpdatePipeline, RunService, "Heartbeat")
    :insertAfter(Render, UpdatePipeline)
    :addSystems(systems, Update)

scheduler:removeSystem(systemA)
scheduler:replaceSystem(systemA, systemB)

scheduler:editSystem(systemA, newPhase)
scheduler:editSystem(systemA)

scheduler:setRunCondition(systemA, function(world)
    return someCondition and true or false
end)

Plugins

The Planck Scheduler is pluggable, providing plugins to add support for Jabby and the Matter Hooks runtime.

You can learn more in the Plugin Docs.