Pooling-Manager

Pooling Manager for Unity. This manager allows for all your pools to be contained in one easy to access class.

It also includes features such as:

• Error logging
• State tracking
• Persistence through level loads
• Dynamic pool growth
• The ability to auto parent or manualy set the parent of the pooled object at creation

Setup

• Add PooledObjectManager and PoolDataSender to a gameObject in scene.

  • In the PoolDataSender inspector, set up the pools you want to create.

• Pooled Objects must have a script on them that derives from PooledObject class. This allows for error logging, tracking the objects state, and some initialization.

  • Example class is included and can be attached to the prefab if you dont want your classes deriving from PooledObject.

Use

The PoolManager class by default is a Singleton, so to access the methods to get objects from their pools you will need to refrence it's instance ie. Poolmanager.Instance.TryGetObjectFromPool(prefab, out T component);

There are a few ways to get and use objects from their pools:

• TryGetObjectFromPool(prefab, out T component);

  • Prefab is the object type you want to use from the pool.
  • T is the component type you are trying to get from the pooled prefab.

• UseObjectFromPool<T>(prefab);

  • Where T is the component type you want to get from the prefab.
  • Prefab is the object type you want to use from the pool.

• UseObjectFromPool(prefab, position, rotation);

  • This will return the gameObject from the pool of type prefab.
  • Will set the position and rotation after getting it from the pool
  • Will also set it to active after getting it and setting its position.

  When done with the pooled object set it to not active ie. gameObject.SetActive(false); and it will automaticaly be returned to the pool.