Native Array Span Extensions

Provides extensions to Unity's NativeArray<T> that make using .NET's Span with them easier.

Features

• Provides theses extensions to NativeArray<T>:
  • CopyTo for copying to a Span<T>
  • CopyFrom for copying from a ReadOnlySpan<T>
  • Same extensions are also available for NativeSlice<T>
• Provides theses extensions to Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T>:
  • CopyTo for copying a span to a NativeArray<T>
  • ToNativeArray for creating a new NativeArray<T> and copying the span's buffer to it

Getting Started

Package Installation

Prerequisites

Unity 2020.3.x
(Unity 2021.3.x is the recommended version however)

(Newer Unity versions should be fine as well)

Unity 2020.3.x Prerequisites

IF YOU ARE USING UNITY 2020.3.x WITH THIS PACKAGE, READ THIS. (Newer versions do not need this step!)

System.Memory dll is required (this is where Span<T> use to come from). This package it self has no direct dependent installation method for System.Memory. You can either install it directly into your Unity project from NuGet (by extracting it from the .nupkg file), or via an automatic seamless UPM integration, such as Voltstro UPM, OpenUPM, or UnityNuGet.

Installation Methods

There are three main sources on how you can install this package. Pick which ever one suites you the best!

Voltstro UPM Registry

You can install this package from our custom UPM registry. To setup our registry, see here.

Once you have the registry added to your project, you can install it like any other package via the package manager.

OpenUPM

You can install this package via OpenUPM.

To install it, use their CLI:

openupm add dev.voltstro.nativearrayspanextensions

Git

To install it via the package manager with git you will need to:

1. Open up the package manager via Windows -> Package Manager
2. Click on the little + sign -> Add package from git URL...
3. Type https://github.com/Voltstro-Studios/NativeArraySpanExtensions.git and add it
4. Unity will now download and install the package

Authors

Voltstro - Initial Work - Voltstro

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.