PoolParty

A simple entity pool for Unity

Inspired pretty heavily from quill-18's SimplePool. The code has been cleaned up and two additional features have been added.

1. When calling PoolParty.Destroy (), an optional time parameter can be added to destory it after a set period. This is closely in line with the default GameObject.Destory () method.
2. If your prefab includes a MonoBehaviour that implements the PooledGameObject interface, values can be automatically reset when the prefab is spawned. The ResetEntity () method is called when the prefab is first created and whenever it is pulled from the pool.

Usage:

using CoinFlipGames.PoolParty;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class MyMonoBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
	public GameObject somePrefab;

	void Start ()
	{
		PoolParty.Preload(somePrefab, 200);
	}

	public void SomeImportantMethod ()
	{
		// You probably want to keep a reference to the spawned entity until it needs to be destroyed.
		GameObject entity = PoolParty.Instantiate (somePrefab, Random.insideUnitSphere, Random.rotation);

		// You can do whatever you want with the spawned entity, but I'm just going to remove it after 5 seconds.
		PoolParty.Destroy (entity, 5f);
	}
}

You can also automatically reset entity values when spawning if you declare a monobehaviour on your prefab like so:

public class PrefabBehaviour : MonoBehaviour, PooledEntity

And implement the method public void ResetEntity ()

See the example folder for more details on how this is accomplished.