Template pools how to?

[mirkoni]

coming from unity i would create pool of prefab to avoid instantiting, and i was wondering is there any pools manager available for playcanvas

i need to acces cotroller on the template.

sorry of this is newbie question

[Saad_Haider]

Hi @mirkoni,

I am afraid there is no generic pool manager available in the Playcanvas store or Playcanvas tutorials at the moment, so you would have to write one yourself.

[mirkoni]

ok i get it, do you know easiest way to get script on template? if it’s instantiated like this

var templateAsset = this.app.assets.get(templateAssetId);
var instance = templateAsset.resource.instantiate();
this.app.root.addChild(instance);

[Saad_Haider]

You can get the script reference, by doing:

let scriptInstance = instance.script.scriptName; 
// then call a function from that script
scriptInstance.someFunction();

The scriptName is present at the top of every script:

[Saad_Haider]

If you want to add script at run time, see

How do I programmatically add a script to an entity without the editor?

In your case, it’s as simple as directly creating the script with the cameraEntity like this: // add the scripts component that will hold the scripts for this entity cameraEntity.addComponent("script"); // create the script cameraEntity.script.create('camera', function(context){ // script content here }); I am however getting this error: script ‘camera’ is not found, awaiting it to be added to registry So just going to wait and see if someone knows the right answer.