[gameprogrammer] Re: memory management in a game with LOTS ofart
- From: "Kevin Jenkins" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:21:18 -0700
Depends if he is talking about using one shared surface or using one big
surface for all images and blitting out parts of it. Sharing surfaces saves
memory. Using one big surface does not.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Marcotte" <mrpicalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: memory management in a game with LOTS ofart
> That depends though...
> If you load an image or set of image for each object and have 5 of the
> same objects you're going to have 5 of the same surface... Right?
>
> I mean I don't know if his friend is doing this or not so I'm just
> trying to brainstorm i guess...
>
>
> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:00, Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> > That doesn't save you any memory aside from the small per-surface
overhead.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eugene Marcotte" <mrpicalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 10:47 AM
> > Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: memory management in a game with LOTS of
art
> >
> >
> > > I don't know if it's very feasible in his case(or even what you're
> > > looking for), but making one image with all the artwork and putting
them
> > > in one file(or files if you split them into groups or something) and
> > > loading it to a global variable of some sort then just blitting
> > > selections out of the stored surface of all the artwork.
> > >
> > > This saved me alot of memory because each object doesn't need it's own
> > > surface for artwork, it's all shared with all the objects(plus it
makes
> > > doing animations easy as adding a number to the id if you design it
> > > properly)....
> > >
> > > One trick I used is if there are images of different areas (32x32,
16x16
> > > etc) put the images of the same size in their own files so you'd have
> > > artwork16x16.png with all 16x16 artwork and then load that and make
> > > blits from it.
> > >
> > > Not sure if this method would work for him but you weren't very
specific
> > > as to what he was trying already... I dunno..
> > >
> > > See ya,
> > > Eugene
> >
> >
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