(SmartPool) Changing pool name in inspector

Unity Engine
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I got a Pool script from the asset store (SmartPool) and you access each pool you have created via script, like this:

SmartPool.Spawn("Pool1");

But as I have lots of pools containing different things I am having to make a fresh script file for every single pool. I would love to be able to alter the name of the pool in the inspector so I dont need a load of scripts that all do the same thing, is this possible?

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Sure… you can create a string variable and just declare it public. then set it in your property inspector.

// declaration section of your class/script...
public string poolName;
....
// wherever you call your pool...
SmartPool.Spawn(poolName); // you might want to check if the string is empty first

I use FastPool instead, which uses integers rather than strings for pool names (harder to remember, but typically a bit better to store), but basically I have a wrapper for my pooling calls that I call my PoolManager. I just make a call to it to spawn whatever it needs, passing the pool ID by a variable. The concept for SmartPool would be similar… there’s actually a demo project I found here too: Unity3d Smart Object Pooling · GitHub

Only thing is, that demo doesn’t use a variable for the pool name, it’s actually hard coded. But that’s a very simple switch (see my code above).

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Unfortunately that is the method I tried to start with and it doesn’t work with SmartPool. Im not sure why, but the name of the pool is set up like a tag ((“Pool1”).

I might check out FastPool, but SmartPool was free and it does work well as a simple pool manager.

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I think you made a mistake as @cstooch idea should work for sure!

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Oh I’m sure SmartPool is fine. I wasn’t suggesting you use something different. Just saying I wasn’t 100% familiar with SmartPool, but it should work similarly.

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As for it not working… not sure if you did something wrong? It should work…

In your property inspector you only type: Pool1
Make sure you don’t put quotes.

I don’t see why that wouldn’t work. If it didn’t work, was there an error, or what happened? Perhaps share the code you put.

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I found the problem, the quotes where still there :sweat_smile:

Thanks, it works now! :slight_smile: