Feature Request: Spawned object pooling support

[angusmf]

Request hooks to insert your own instantiation routines, or built-in pooling.

Thanks!

[TwoTenPvP]

Is a pooling system where simply the position and rotation is changed and everything else is left to the developer fine?

[angusmf]

Pooling is to avoid calls to MonoBehaviour.Instantiate when the "network" is spawning. You'd like to be able to have a managed pool of objects available in a prefab to activate/deactivate instead of creating and destroying. This will be a non-issue if the Job System stuff delivers as promised.

[TwoTenPvP]

Right, I am almost done with the implementation.

[TwoTenPvP]

Implemented but not yet tested.

[angusmf]

I added PR 1 to request the ability to pass in an array of objects, such as you might have already in a scene object. Unity claims this is faster than calling Instantiate on each, which is believable.

[TwoTenPvP]

#8 PR merged. It is important to note that the Pools need to be created on both ends before you start using them. They are not automatically synced. Wiki will be written today.

[TwoTenPvP]

Pool system will be reworked. Currently implementation relies to heavily on the developer and will cause major issues when new clients connect etc. New system will be automatically synced and pools can be created at runtime.

The PoolObjects are going to be normal NetworkedObjects, this means that they will have to be handled in the spawning. If a new player join for example. The objects will be spawned as if they are not part of the pool. I will need some extra time to work on this feature and get it polished. A release will be created once it's ready.