Question Unity preloading prefab memory issue (Android)

I am currently working on a battle simulation game, I used a plugin to help me solve the performance issue when rendering a lot of the same model at the same time (e.g. 300 archer), but it doesn't help much when they are different models (e.g. archer + rider + knight + 50 other types of soldiers). Even if I didn't instantiate the model into the scene, by just keep the reference in one of the model spawning scripts, Unity seems to preload all the models into the memory and crash some of the low end Android device.

Does anyone know any tip and tricks that can help solving this issue?

 

If you want to be able do dynamically load and unload prefabs, look into how to use the addressable assets package.

 

Didn't realize direct reference will cause such issue, thanks for the suggestions!