Question Memory management of spawning more random prefabs than can stay in memory at once.

Hello,

I have a large variety of random spawnable enemies and I do not want them loaded in memory unless they spawned and are active.

What is the most reasonable way of doing this?

The way I'm doing it now is:
1) array of disabled ECS Entities for the most common spawnables like lasers, common enemies. I use this disabled enity list to rapid instantiate entities.

2) For the sake of arguing I'll do this part wrong and someone to correct it: an Addrssables group with 2000 prefab GameObjects.

3) Since I do not believe you can instantiate an entity directly from an addressable group and I don't mind if the spawn took 3000 ms aka 3 seconds, then taking a GameObject into memory long enough to spawn to enity. I will then dispose of this adressable from memory.


Is that acceptable and cromulent? How should I be doing it? I have a very massive game I want to maintain for years and become very super massive aka Terabytes on disk. I want to make sure my foundational memory management is fine.

Bonus: I could get fancy by leaving Entities spawned into a disabled entity buffer like I successfully use in #1, but I'd have to know the memory limits of the machine and how much used.

On .51 waiting for 1 to get stable before porting