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Overview of this book

Unity is the most exciting and popular engine used for developing games. With its 2018 release, Unity has become the primary source of both game development and virtual reality content. In Unity 2018 By Example, you’ll learn how to use Unity in order to make amazing games from popular genres - from action shooters to mind-bending puzzle games to adventure and Virtual Reality (VR) games. Even if you have no previous experience of using Unity, this book will help you understand the toolsets it provides in depth. In addition to this, you'll understand how to create time-critical collection games, twin-stick space shooters, platformers, and action-fest games with intelligent enemies. Finally, you'll get to grips with creating VR games with the new toolsets introduced by Unity to help you develop amazing VR experiences. To make things easier, you will be provided with step-by-step tutorials for making five great games in Unity 2018, along with a detailed explanation of all the fundamental concepts. By the end of this book, you’ll have established a strong foundation in making games with Unity 2018.
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Object Pool and Spawning

This chapter is based on the assets and project completed in the previous chapter. See Figure 10.1. Here, we'll add gameplay elements to our project and make it come alive:

Object Pool and Spawning

Figure 10.1: Starting project

Let's start by creating a pooling system. Our game will feature enemy prefabs (yet to be made). At regular intervals, enemy droids spawn into the level at specific spawn points. Once spawned, each enemy will wander the level searching for the player, and then attack. This functionality immediately depends on a spawning system, as enemies need to be generated in the scene at a specific location and at a specific interval. The spawning behavior could be achieved using the paired Instantiate and Destroy functions, for creating and removing objects respectively. These functions are slow, however, and should be avoided. It is better to generate a batch of enemies when the level starts up, hide them away, and then simply recycle the enemies when needed to appear...

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