No problem, i just don't want people to think pooling is a magical solution for eliminating instantiating calls, it requires a bit of setup to work properly.

I'm making adjustments and giving you credit for that catch :) i'm adding in a note in my article now with your name. Thanks again!

You are totally right. I was just trying to put a very basic idea and concept, I felt that to not confuse new developers I would keep it simple :) +1 Thumbs up to you for catching that and noting that. Your way is the way one should definitely go with pooling for sure :)

Nice write up for rookies that are not acquaintanced with the pooling concept but i must disagree with the "simply deactivate part". Deactivated objects keep their properties, they are just not active any more. You need to reset their properties which can be tricky for more complex objects sometimes. Also, you need the way to track the number of spawned objects and adjust the pool size when needed.

It depends on the type of project and specially on the client needs when you'

yes cloud saving is important but not indispensable.

Do you think cloud saving is important?

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@Phil Burling, I feel the only thing really lacking when panning in our shaders is that the dithered effects are locked to screen and not sprite origin, so while a stationary thing like the environment is moved, the checkerboards don't completely line up. but it's been reworked many, many, times... I'd say 6 or more months of research, and we're just sticking with this as the result. I personally really like the result much better at 30 or 60 frames in person rather than these clips. We'll have more info very soon on when we're getting this into people's hands. I appreciate your input none the less

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