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Java3D: how to load and change textures quickly
At the moment, I am animating a character using sprites and...
- if I load the sprite jus when I need it, I get delays (probably becoz of the time taken to load the image onto memory. And maybe if you could explain why a 10+kb png graphics will take so much time and memory space)
- if I load all sprites onto memory 1st, I find that i consume too much memory (like 10+mb for 1 character. I use 128x128 png images becoz i need gd transparency support). Thus, it is not a viable solution in the long run when i implement more characters and result in outofmemory.
Qn1a: So I ask if there is anyway to speed up the loading and changing of textures (like an animation).
Qn1b: I also ask on how sprite based games (that has everchanging sprites) reduce their memory usage.
below is how i load a texture. Please let me know if there is a better way. Thanks.
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TextureLoader textureLoader = new TextureLoader("filename.pn
ImageComponent2D image = textureLoader.getImage();
Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(Texture2D.BASE_L
image.getWidth(), image.getHeight());
texture.setImage(0, image);
texture.setEnable(true);
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- if I load the sprite jus when I need it, I get delays (probably becoz of the time taken to load the image onto memory. And maybe if you could explain why a 10+kb png graphics will take so much time and memory space)
- if I load all sprites onto memory 1st, I find that i consume too much memory (like 10+mb for 1 character. I use 128x128 png images becoz i need gd transparency support). Thus, it is not a viable solution in the long run when i implement more characters and result in outofmemory.
Qn1a: So I ask if there is anyway to speed up the loading and changing of textures (like an animation).
Qn1b: I also ask on how sprite based games (that has everchanging sprites) reduce their memory usage.
below is how i load a texture. Please let me know if there is a better way. Thanks.
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TextureLoader textureLoader = new TextureLoader("filename.pn
ImageComponent2D image = textureLoader.getImage();
Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(Texture2D.BASE_L
image.getWidth(), image.getHeight());
texture.setImage(0, image);
texture.setEnable(true);
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You could have a mouse listener that listens for mouse clicks events. If the mouse event is a right click then spawn two threads from the corresponding method. In there have one thread reading the images and have the other thread display them to the user while they are being read. The threads should terminate after the images are all loaded and they are displayed on the screen.
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would this sort of have a high chance of working? cause it will make quite a number of changes to my program.
ASKER
to add on, how do i inform the thread-that-does-the-showi
if i run a while loop, i probably need to put a sleep/delay but putting too long a delay would result in delayed showing of the image.
if i run a while loop, i probably need to put a sleep/delay but putting too long a delay would result in delayed showing of the image.
You will run a while loop, when it is finished then the run method will exit (and the thread will die).
> if i run a while loop, i probably need to put a sleep/delay but putting too long a delay would result in delayed showing of the image.
You can put a delay of 20ms or even less.
Before you make any changes to your original programme though I suggest you write a small sampel application that does this and see how it is going.
> if i run a while loop, i probably need to put a sleep/delay but putting too long a delay would result in delayed showing of the image.
You can put a delay of 20ms or even less.
Before you make any changes to your original programme though I suggest you write a small sampel application that does this and see how it is going.
My opinion is that I have already answered the question.
ASKER
for example, if the user clicks right, i need the east walking sprites. And if the clicks left, vice versa.