Away3D Forum Properly removing assets

Properly removing assets Software: Away3D 4.x

oladitan, Member Posted: 29 September 2014 04:08 PM Total Posts: 71 Hi. Is there a way to properly delete assets and their materials. In my game I need to create a new material for each enemy. I change the transparency so I give each enemy a new material that is identical to the cloned one. If I make the texture of the enemy smaller in photoshop I can spawn more of them before the game crashes. If I make the texture larger I can spawn way less before the game crashes. If the materials were being properly removed. It would not matter how large the texture was. I have tried `mesh.material.dispose(); mesh.disposeAsset(); mesh.dispose(); scene.removeChild(mesh);` none of these seem to solve the issue. Thanks.
mrpinc, Sr. Member Posted: 29 September 2014 04:57 PM Total Posts: 119 [ # 1 ] oladtian, you should be able to create new materials that share the base texture. There should be no need to dispose of the texture just because you want to create a new material. You can have multiple objects with different materials (that look different) yet they share the same texture. Also if you need a lot of different materials you should think about object pooling your materials and changing their properties every time you need them rather than instatiating a new one each time.
oladitan, Member Posted: 29 September 2014 10:19 PM Total Posts: 71 [ # 2 ] mrpinc - 29 September 2014 04:57 PM oladtian, you should be able to create new materials that share the base texture. There should be no need to dispose of the texture just because you want to create a new material. You can have multiple objects with different materials (that look different) yet they share the same texture. Also if you need a lot of different materials you should think about object pooling your materials and changing their properties every time you need them rather than instatiating a new one each time. Hi mrpinc. All the materials are made from 1 single jpeg image. When the meshes are cloned I assigned a new texture material for each one. Object Pooling is a good idea for what I am trying to accomplish now but may not work if I had a more complex scene with more enemies showing at once. RIght now there are at most 10 enemies in the scene at once. Are new materials stored in memory or something. I am using ‘Cast’ to create the texture materials. If I could find a way to free the engines resources completely of materials as they are removed from the scene I think the issue may be resolved.

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