🔄 Pool Manager

The Pool Manager helps reuse objects that show up often, instead of creating and destroying them each time.

Creating and destroying objects, like projectiles or explosions, can be slow and cause issues such as making the game slow or laggy when done frequently.

The Pool Manager alleviates these problems by maintaining a pool of objects. Instead of creating and destroying objects all the time, the Pool Manager keeps these objects for reuse. This strategy improves the smoothness of the game.

📚 Documentation

Detailed documentation about the Pool Manager can be found here.

🎓 Sample Projects

Check out our Release page for two sample projects showcasing the Pool Manager, one with blueprints and another in C++.

Also, explore this game project repository to view the Pool Manager in action.

📅 Changelog

2024-05-05

Updated to Unreal Engine 5.4.
Implemented User Widgets support allowing to pool widgets.

Added Take From Pool Array and Return To Pool Array functions to support pooling multiple objects:

2023-11-25

Updated to Unreal Engine 5.3.
Introduced Factories to handle differences in pools by object archetypes (e.g.: uobjects, actors, components, widgets etc.).
Take From Pool now spreads out the creation of large pools of UObjects and Actors over multiple frames to avoid any hitches.