Object Pooling in Unity3D (Video tutorial)

[monoRAIL]

Here's a great video tutorial I found on Object Pooling in Unity3D, an essential skill for any shmup developer!

[Pixel_Outlaw Profile]

Yep, especially with the popularity of garbage collected languages these days.
You can ensure there is less garbage created (in theory).

This is a great idea for danmaku games especially.
I've always been sloppy about this but the minute I run into a wall this would be one of the first things I try.

[kdmiller3 Profile Website]

This approach seems fairly common in Unity, and not just for shmups. It's common enough that it makes me wonder why it isn't an officially-supported option for game objects.

[monoRAIL]

I think there's a lot of common stuff that's missing from Unity - like cross-platform controller support, and a visual shader editor. But there are asset store packages (Rewired and Shader Forge) that provide this functionality so I think the Unity devs are happy to leave these gaps in the software and have the community fill them.