The best way to handle components?

Unity Engine
1

Hey guys, I am creating objects and attaching components to them, do you think it would be best to spawn a empty game object and attach children to the object and add components on them(Children)? Or should I just attach components to the objects themselves?
Like this:

Empty OBJ
child AudioSource
child Light

Empty OBJ 2
child Sphere Mesh Render
child Sphere collider

Would this act on any performance if I was removing and adding components? Or would the new game objects give me more overhead because of the spawning of new game objects?

2

Instantiating new GameObjects and Components will definitely have more overhead than if you just instantiated Components.

EDIT: But if you really needed the children you could just instantiate 1 prefab with all the components and gameobjects. In fact that might be better than doing it all separately.

3

I was thinking more for having the sounds pre loaded on the children and play them as I need them, would you think that may be a little better?

4

If you’re dealing with AudioSources, it’s better to change the clip out and Play() then instantiate a new one, yes.