README.md

Object-Pooling-for-Unity

Object Pooling for Unity

Features

• Faster in terms of performance than Instantiate/Destroy (Test at the end of README)
• Easy to use
• Easy to integrate with already written spawn systems
• Callbacks OnSpawn & OnDespawn for resseting after object being used

Usage

How to populate pool:

using ToolBox.Pools;
using UnityEngine;

public class Spawner : MonoBehaviour
{
	[SerializeField] private GameObject _prefab = null;

	private void Awake()
	{
		_prefab.Populate(count: 50);
	}
}

Also, you can just put PoolInstaller component on any object on Scene and select which objects you want to prepopulate

How to spawn object from pool:

using ToolBox.Pools;
using UnityEngine;

public class Spawner : MonoBehaviour
{
	[SerializeField] private GameObject _prefab = null;

	public void Spawn()
	{
		_prefab.Spawn(transform.position, transform.rotation);

		// Get object from pool with component
		_prefab.Spawn<Rigidbody>(transform.position, transform.rotation).isKinematic = true;
	}
}

How to return object to pool:

using ToolBox.Pools;
using UnityEngine;

public class Spawner : MonoBehaviour
{
	[SerializeField] private GameObject _prefab = null;

	public void Spawn()
	{
		var instance = _prefab.Spawn(transform.position, transform.rotation);

		// Use this only with Instances of Prefab
		// Only Instances which was created via Populate/Spawn can be Despawned
		instance.Despawn();
	}
}

How to use callbacks:

using ToolBox.Pools;
using UnityEngine;

public class Health : MonoBehaviour, IPoolable
{
	[SerializeField] private float _maxHealth = 100f;

	private float _health = 0f;

	private void Awake() =>
		_health = _maxHealth;

	// IPoolable method
	public void OnSpawn() =>
		_health = _maxHealth;

	// IPoolable method
	public void OnDespawn() { }
}

Peformance test:

Creating and destroying 1000 objects.

Instantiate/Destroy:

using Sirenix.OdinInspector;
using System.Diagnostics;
using UnityEngine;

public class Tester : MonoBehaviour
{
	[SerializeField] private GameObject _object = null;

	[Button]
	private void Test()
	{
		Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
		stopwatch.Start();

		for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
		{
			var instance = Instantiate(_object);
			Destroy(instance);
		}

		stopwatch.Stop();
		print($"Milliseconds: {stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
	}
}

Result: [16:26:15] Milliseconds: 6

Spawn/Despawn:

using Sirenix.OdinInspector;
using System.Diagnostics;
using ToolBox.Pools;
using UnityEngine;

public class Tester : MonoBehaviour
{
	[SerializeField] private GameObject _object = null;

	private void Awake()
	{
		_object.Populate(1000);
	}

	[Button]
	private void Test()
	{
		Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
		stopwatch.Start();

		for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
		{
			var instance = _object.Spawn();
			instance.Despawn();
		}

		stopwatch.Stop();
		print($"Milliseconds: {stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}");
	}
}

Result: [16:29:36] Milliseconds: 2