Ticking

Every simulation component in Vantage advances through Tick(float deltaTime) and never reads the Unity clock itself. By default each component calls its own Tick from Update. You can take that over.

One driver for everything

Add Vantage → Core → VtTickDriver to a scene object. From then on the driver advances every registered component once per frame in a fixed order, and the components’ own Update methods do nothing.

Order of groups: Stats, Auras, Buffs, Abilities, Threat, Engagement, AI, World, Projectiles.

Simulation Time Scale on the driver scales the delta before it is handed out. Set it to 0 to pause the world while menus and UI keep running, or to 0.2 for slow motion.

Ticking from your own loop

Servers, replays and tests call the manager directly:

VtTickManager.Tick(1f / 30f);

Components register themselves in OnEnable, so anything alive is included.

Adding your own tickable

public sealed class DayNight : MonoBehaviour, IVtTickable
{
    private void OnEnable()  => VtTickManager.Register(this, VtTickGroup.World);
    private void OnDisable() => VtTickManager.Unregister(this);

    public void Tick(float deltaTime) { }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (VtTickManager.IsDriven) return;
        Tick(Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

The Update fallback keeps the component working in scenes without a driver.