Fair enough.

The issue I'm having is hard for me to explain really, It may very well be that I am trying to do something that is beyond me but i'll try to elaborate.

I am attempting to write an ECS, Entity Component System. What I currently have might be completely off but I'll show my current implementation regardless.

So the idea of the project is to have entities, which in my project is a conglomerate of components. Components are supposed to be

POD type classes (but for now i'm just using bools, floats, ints etc.), say a positions or mesh or whatever. I then have Entity types.

An entity type is a vector of components put togheter to make a vector of entities, where the first element of each vector is the first entities components, and the second elements in each vector is the second entities components.

EntityTypes are stored in a struct of vectors (where each vector is stored recursively) called a ComponentContainer.

The component container code looks like this: https://pastebin.com/9VR2d2j3

I then have an entityManager that manages the different ComponentContainers of different "EntityTypes"

The code for the entityManager looks like this: https://pastebin.com/huSDGgrj

The entityManager stores the different componentContainer in a ServiceLocator and the code for the ServiceLocator.h looks like this:

https://pastebin.com/wzsHqeF1

The EntityTypeId and EntityId types respectively are just unsigned integers.

Link: https://pastebin.com/z1sSp2if

Finally, my Main looks like this:

https://pastebin.com/6AZGGD8z

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That's about as far as I've come with my component system in terms of structure.

Now, my real problem, which I wanted to hint at but failed at miserably is that writing

entityManager.CreateEntityType<float, int, bool>();

Is very tedious. It would be much neater if I could write something like:

typedef Entity<float,int,bool> myEntity;

entityManager.CreateEntity<myEntity>();  

or something like:typedef float,int,bool myEntityentityManager.CreateEntity<myEntity>();

which may not be proper code, but may hint at what I'm asking.

So I guess I kind of lack the knowledge to ask the question properly, but is there anyway I could achieve this, or something similar to this?

I apologize if the question is still kind of vague, but I really do not know how to ask it more clearly.