Quest: Toady Froggerson
Challenge: Better Obstacles
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Hey all don’t do what I did when changing this to use object pools like our world tiles and vehicles in order to improve performance.
I used the following to get the children but also to create the obstacle pool.
private void Awake()
{
objectPools = GetComponentsInChildren();
for (int i = 0; i < Random.Range(0, maxObstacleCount); i++)
{
CreateObstacle();
}
}
However spent hours with an error where I couldn’t get it to work and then it dawned on me that some things should not be put in Awake() so I ended up with the following…
private void Awake()
{
objectPools = GetComponentsInChildren<ObjectPool>();
}
private void Start()
{
for (int i = 0; i < Random.Range(0, maxObstacleCount); i++)
{
CreateObstacle();
}
}
Hopefully this will stop other people losing their minds!
Kurt
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