Reducing Lag When Spawning Objects?

[Wrensey]

Does anyone have any tips for reducing lag when spawning an object with a lot of FSMs attached to it? I'm having waves of enemies spawn into a level and each one contains all the different enemy type variations that allow me to easily make prefab variants of enemy types. Problem is, the variations that are unused are just sitting there when the object spawns and it's making my game freeze for a couple of frames when the object is created.

Doing some research, I found out this actually isn't a great strategy for spawning enemies, especially if targeting mobile devices, which I'm doing. Looks like what I should have done is have all the necessary enemies already loaded into the scene, but inactive and activate them as needed. Which, at this point, that would take a fair bit of retooling for me to do, so just wondering if there is an easier way to remedy this before I get to work on it?

[djaydino]

Hi.

You need to look into pooling.

There is a simple pool system on the Ecosystem called Pooler.

[Wrensey]

Oh, interesting, I'll check this out thanks!

[LuminRabbit]

Agree Pooling sounds like the way to go and there are a few different options:
-Pooler, limited but works for simple stuff and its free!
-Pool manager, I use this it costs money but works when spawning multiple of different objects.
-Pooley, another one on the asset store I heard good things from and costs money.

Just thought Id share a few options that I know of.

[djaydino]

Hi.
I use LeanPool.

You can find actions for it on my Third party asset actions for PlayMaker

[Wrensey]

Cool currently using Pooler now, it seems like the right complexity level for what I need to do atm, thanks for the other suggestions!