The Latios Framework is a powerful suite of high-performance low-level APIs and feature-sets for Unity’s ECS which aims to give you back control over your gameplay. If you like the general paradigms, syntax, and workflows of Unity’s ECS, but find Unity’s offerings to be incomplete or frustratingly full of quirky unintuitive details, then this framework may be exactly what you need to achieve your vision.

The Latios Framework does not replace Unity’s ECS, but rather complements it with additional APIs and tools. In some cases, the Latios Framework may tweak Unity ECS’s underlying mechanisms to provide more features or improve performance. Desktop platforms are supported out-of-the-box. Other platforms may require additional effort (i.e. compiling native plugins) to achieve functionality and performance benefits.

Originally, this framework was for my own personal hobbyist game development, and in a sense, still is. However, after several years of development, it has proven a valuable resource to the Unity ECS community. It is provided here free to use for personal or commercial usage and modification. All modules are licensed under the Unity Companion License. The modules may contain code borrowed from official Unity packages and therefore may be seen as derivative works. Despite this, the Latios Framework contains many adaptations of top-class solutions in the industry (see Third Party Notices) as well as original inventions geared towards Unity’s ECS.

This version targets Entities 1.4.8 and a minimum editor version of 6000.3.8f1. Entities 6.4.0 compatibility is not supported at this time.

[0.15.x] users, please read the Upgrade Guide!

The Latios Framework contains multiple modules, each of which contain public API for your own use. For even more functionality built on top of these modules, check out the Add-Ons package!

Modules are disabled by default and are installed via a custom bootstrap. Bootstrap templates are provided in the Assets Create menu.