Excessive sprites needed. Memory leak issues.

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DSaad
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Hello everyone,

The nature of the game I am creating requires a single asset of type CCSprite to be created numerous times. The object is created, input occurs from the user, and they are destroyed. The maximum number of this sprite is 30. I noticed that although I am releasing the memory of the sprite using (void)spriteMoveFinished:(id)sender after collision is detected, the application still hogs massive amounts of memory if 10+ of this object is in existence. The frame rate drops to about 12. The object is an image of size 45 x 45 (png).

Any ideas why this is happening? Any ideas on how to tackle the issue?

Appreciate your time.

Posted 1 year ago #
chrisco
Member

Can you post the code where you create and destroy your sprites? Hard to tell right now what you're doing wrong.

Posted 1 year ago #
michaelm
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Best way instead of creating and destroying just reuse them. Create an array of 30 of them, add a flag or use the visible property to see which are unused, loop through the array when you need one and the first unused one you come to reactivate them. Reset the properties you need to change and your good to go.

It will save a huge amount of cpu if your constantly creating and destroying them.

Posted 1 year ago #

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