I'm trying to spawn a LOT of units for an RTS (~5000) and was wondering about the best way to do this. Would it be to make an object pool, spawn them on game start, then activate and deactivate them as needed?
Thanks!
#Hello! How would I go about making an object pool in netcode for entities?
sharp gale
tender bobcat
Entities are already pooled by default. You really only want to avoid structural changes so using Enableable Components is better than add/removing entities or components
sharp gale
are they pooled/allocated on the network as well?
tender bobcat
are they pooled/allocated on the network as well?
Its just how entities works, they are allocated in 16kb chunks I believe. If you Instantiate the ghost prefabs, they will be replicated to the clients
sharp gale
what's the best way to reduce lag when spawning thousands of units?
tender bobcat
what's the best way to reduce lag when spawning thousands of units?
Are you seeing lag when instantiating ghost prefabs? You can set the Importance of ghosts to each client depending on distance so ghosts farther from the player update less frequently
sharp gale
yeah I am - is that just the importance field on the ghostauthoring component or is there ways I can tweak it? Currently have them set at 1 - but there are only the one prefab for now