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Strategies for Reducing VRAM Usage?

slinga - Sep 16, 2019

		antime	Oct 5, 2019
		The frames will probably compress very well even using a simple scheme like RLE. Most of the pixels will also stay the same between frames, so you could use delta encoding as well.

XL2

Oct 5, 2019

	slinga said:

It shouldn't be hard at all to do it in 3d. You just need to create one half pipe section in say blender, use a converter (like my own) and just reuse the same model to the length of the "map" by simply using matrix translates. You could even do it with untextured quads and manualy create your vertices and polygons.

slinga

Oct 6, 2019

I implemented a technique to stream the pipe images from RAM to VRAM one a time as needed. It seems to be efficient enough to do this on a per frame basis. Doing this combined with extending the heap with jo_add_memory_zone() seemed to do the trick.

	XL2 said:

I understood a few of those words lol. Maybe for the 30th anniversary contest.

I really do appreciate all the great advice you and Antime have given me. Thanks again.