Discussion Best approach for Spawning in units that die a lot.

Hi there! I'm making a game which is basically an rts.

I'm starting to spawn units for players, my first time getting so far as spawning units at runtime with the netcode framework.

So, I'm here to ask: What is the best approach for spawning in NetworkObject units, potentially in the hundreds, that die alot and will be replaced?

So far what I'm doing is instantiating a large pool of gameobjects when the game starts, a part of loading in. Then when a unit is needed, I SpawnWithOwnership from a list of those instantiated GO's. The issue I'm running into is when a unit dies, I don't currently have a way to find that despawned unit in the list and respawn it when needed. Before I continue down this path by adding some sort of index marker to the unit itself, I want to see if there is a better approach to this situation.

 

[The links were updated to fix previously improper lookup use case.]

I had a similar use case when I want to reuse the instances of different fireballs, and eventually decided to use a priority queue with key-value query capability

• the data structure https://github.com/genxium/DelayNoMoreUnity/blob/v1.0.4/shared/KvPriorityQueue.cs
• the use case https://github.com/genxium/DelayNoM...cripts/Abstract/AbstractMapController.cs#L317

You might also want to checkout how this solution actually works for my project here in another thread https://forum.unity.com/threads/sha...-with-some-success-in-internet-tests.1426356/