-added function to create EntityTemplate form Entity

source/ecs/manager.d

@@ -1073,6 +1073,45 @@ export class EntityManager
             return 1;
     }
 
+    /************************************************************************************************************************
+    *Allocate EntityTemplate with all components from entity witch it's data and returns pointer to it.
+    *
+    *Params:
+    *id = ID of entity from which should be created template
+    *fill_default = if true, components will be filled with default data, instead entity data will be taken
+    */
+    export EntityTemplate* allocateTemplate(EntityID entity_id, bool fill_default = false)
+    {
+        Entity* entity = getEntity(entity_id);
+        EntitiesBlock* block = getMetaData(entity);
+        EntityInfo* info = block.type_info;
+
+        EntityTemplate* temp = Mallocator.instance.make!EntityTemplate;
+        temp.entity_data = Mallocator.instance.makeArray!ubyte(info.size);
+        temp.info = info;
+
+        if(fill_default)
+        {
+            //fill components with default data
+            foreach (comp; info.components)
+            {
+                temp.entity_data[info.tmpl_deltas[comp] .. info.tmpl_deltas[comp] + components[comp].size]
+                    = components[comp].init_data;
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            ushort index = block.entityIndex(entity);
+            foreach (comp; info.components)
+            {
+                memcpy(cast(void*) temp.entity_data + info.tmpl_deltas[comp],
+                        cast(void*) block + info.deltas[comp] + components[comp].size * index, components[comp].size);
+            }
+        }
+        
+        return temp;
+    }
+
     /************************************************************************************************************************
     *Allocate EntityTemplate with specifed components and returns pointer to it.
     *

tests/tests.d

@@ -674,8 +674,14 @@ int main()
 	//writeln((cast(uint*) pp)[0 .. 14], " ", pp);
 	writeEntityComponents(gEM.getEntity(entity));
 
+	writeln("Entity, its copy, and template, and default filled tempalte");
 	gEM.addEntity(tmpl);
-	gEM.addEntityCopy(entity);
+	writeEntityComponents(gEM.getEntity(entity));
+	writeEntityComponents(gEM.addEntityCopy(entity));
+	EntityTemplate* copy_tempalte = gEM.allocateTemplate(entity);
+	writeEntityComponents(gEM.addEntity(copy_tempalte));
+	EntityTemplate* copy_default_tempalte = gEM.allocateTemplate(entity,true);
+	writeEntityComponents(gEM.addEntity(copy_default_tempalte));
 
 	gEM.addComponents(entity, TestComp4());
 	gEM.addComponents(entity, TestComp3());
@@ -704,6 +710,8 @@ int main()
 	//writeln((cast(uint*)tmpl.info.first_block)[0..48]);
 	gEM.freeTemplate(tmpl);
 	gEM.freeTemplate(tmpl2);
+	gEM.freeTemplate(copy_tempalte);
+	gEM.freeTemplate(copy_default_tempalte);
 	EntityManager.destroy();
 
 	return 0;