A system, of the entity-component-system pattern, provides global scope, services, and management to classes of components. It provides public APIs (methods and properties) for classes of components. A system can be accessed through the scene element, and can help components interface with the global scene.
For example, the camera system manages all entities with the camera component, controlling which camera is the active camera.
Parameter | Details |
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data | Data provided by the schema available across handlers and methods |
el | Reference to <a-scene> |
schema | Behaves the same as component schemas. Parses to data. |
A system, like a component, defines lifecycle handlers. It can also define methods intended to be public API.
Method | Description |
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init | Called once when the system is initialized. Used to initialize. |
pause | Called when the scene pauses. Used to stop dynamic behavior. |
play | Called when the scene starts or resumes. Used to start dynamic behavior. |
tick | If defined, will be called on every tick of the scene's render loop. |