Object pooling

Netcode for GameObjects (Netcode) provides built-in support for Object Pooling, which allows you to override the default Netcode destroy and spawn handlers with your own logic. This allows you to store destroyed network objects in a pool to reuse later. This is useful for often used objects, such as projectiles, and is a way to increase the application's overall performance. By pre-instantiating and reusing the instances of those objects, object pooling removes the need to create or destroy objects at runtime, which can save a lot of work for the CPU. This means that instead of creating or destroying the same object over and over again, it's simply deactivated after use, then, when another object is needed, the pool recycles one of the deactivated objects and reactivates it.

Refer to Introduction to Object Pooling to learn more about the importance of pooling objects.

To learn how to override the default Netcode destroy and spawn handlers, refer to the Network prefab handler page.