Approaches and techniques for managing of game assets (resources). Usually things like sounds, textures, models, animations, etc. that take up memory.
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How should I structure an extensible asset loading system?
For a hobby game engine in Java, I want to code a simple but flexible asset/resource manager. Assets are sounds, images, animation, models, textures, et cetera. After a few hours of browsing and some ...
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Designing a ResourceManager class
I've decided I want to write a central ResourceManager/ResourceCache class for my hobby game engine, but am having trouble designing a caching scheme.
The idea is that the ResourceManager has a soft ...
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Game Engine Design – Ubershader - Shader management design
I want to implement a flexible Ubershader system (with deferred shading). My current idea is to create shaders out of modules, which deal with certain features (FlatTexture, BumpTexture, Displacement ...
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How can a resource manager have dynamic loading/unloading without creating dangling pointers?
I have a resource manager that manages the lifetime of resources in memory. A "resource" is something like a texture, mesh, et cetera. I also have an entity class that, the base class for things in my ...
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Object pools for efficient resource management
How can I avoid using default new() to create each object?
My previous demo had very unpleasant framerate hiccups during dynamic memory allocations (usually, when arrays are resized), and creating ...
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Help streaming resources (maps, sounds, music, etc) from many files for contiguous world
So I'm creating a game and I would like to know how to perform resource streaming (rather than loading the whole file into the buffer) for things such as my maps, sounds, music, etc. I'm using C++ and ...
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OpenWorld SceneGraph management and optimization
I have a SceneGraph class which for now is just a simple list implementation, and the only optimization I've planned so far is a check is something like this:
//GetDistance returns the distance ...
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When to unload graphics object from main memory?
I writing my resource mangaer, and I consider about how it can work for graphics objects (like textures, meshes). I think about this :
I want to load texture (in pseudocode):
Texture t = ...
