https://github.com/antonc9018/propertydrawerbytestest

Storage-efficient tagged unions in Unity
https://github.com/antonc9018/propertydrawerbytestest

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Storage-efficient tagged unions in Unity

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/antonc9018/propertydrawerbytestest
• Owner: AntonC9018
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-04-07T20:11:04.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-27T16:55:28.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-11T21:26:03.490Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: float32, unity3d
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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The idea was to support serialization of proper tagged unions in Unity.

Currently, the only viable way to do tagged unions in Unity is to make a struct that has a field for every type of value to be available for use.

This is suboptimal, because it takes up more memory than necessary to do this.

A better way would be to store the value inline, that is, have a fixed size byte array to hold it, and then reinterpret it on access for a specific type.

If the bytes are to be stored as-is by Unity's serialization system, or transfered over network, one will need a common representation for all of the basic types.

Also, we'd want a way to see the stored values in the Unity editor's inspector.

So this is an attempt at achieving that.

I don't really need this functionality currently, so I just abandoned it.

The repository includes platform-independent binary serialization and deserialization of standard IEEE-whatever floats, which would be required for the aforementioned task.

The project may serve as a starting point to a person with similar goals in mind.