gifAnimation on the GPU instead to save OOM errors ?

ashleyjam..

gifAnimation on the GPU instead to save OOM errors ?

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 months ago

Getting Out of Memory errors simply playing 1 looping gif in the draw() which is terrible performance on 1.5.1

Putting dispose() in a keypress and triggering clears the gif from memory, but then it has to be loaded back again.

Wondering about sending the images from the animated gif to an offscreen texture using GLSL and then rendering back to the screen to try and save memory. Also wondering whether to use gifAnimation at all ?

Anyone have any more optimised ideas ?

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amnon.owed

Re: gifAnimation on the GPU instead to save OOM errors ?

2 months ago

This example uses a single spritesheet texture and texture coordinates to generate the animation from it.

The same principle can be used to cycle through the animation via a shader.

ashleyjam..

Re: gifAnimation on the GPU instead to save OOM errors ?

2 months ago

Thanks man - i was looking through some of my shader stuff i learnt from v3ga at pparis2013 and also thought of your stuff (being as i tweeted it yesterday too !!)

Ill check this as i think itll be my only solution.

Ash

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