Hey guys,
I've been working on my game for some time now, and I've noticed that it uses up huge amounts of RAM when running. On my hard drive, I have about 14 MB of PNG's. Now I realize that they uncompress when they are loaded, but I was wondering if the excessive amounts of RAM my game uses may have to do with the way I'm loading those PNG's and setting up my in-game animations.
Basically, the setup goes like this:
The parameters to charIdleAnimation.InitValues are (an_image, number_of_animation_frames, a_list_of_frames, time_in_ms_between_frames)
There is a field in the BAnimation type which is set equal to an_image. When this happens, is there a duplicate in memory of the an_image file?
I've been working on my game for some time now, and I've noticed that it uses up huge amounts of RAM when running. On my hard drive, I have about 14 MB of PNG's. Now I realize that they uncompress when they are loaded, but I was wondering if the excessive amounts of RAM my game uses may have to do with the way I'm loading those PNG's and setting up my in-game animations.
Basically, the setup goes like this:
Global char_idle_strip:Timage=LoadAnimImage("images/charidlestrip.png",265,371,0,3) Global charIdleAnimation:BAnimation = New BAnimation charIdleAnimation.InitValues(char_idle_strip, 4, "0,1,2,1", 200) charAnimation.SetCycle(1)
The parameters to charIdleAnimation.InitValues are (an_image, number_of_animation_frames, a_list_of_frames, time_in_ms_between_frames)
There is a field in the BAnimation type which is set equal to an_image. When this happens, is there a duplicate in memory of the an_image file?