help (supernova pictures)

benben

Hello, I am trying to make an animation with pictures, but the program reaches the picture 27 and crashes because its too heavy, is there a way to get around that somehow? here is my code

int numFrames=35;
PImage[] superNova = new PImage [numFrames];
int frame=0;

    public void setup(){
        background(0);
        size(600,600);
        frameRate(12);

        for(int i=0; i<superNova.length; i++){
            String picName= ("star-"+i+".png");
            superNova[i]=loadImage(picName);


        }
    }


    public void draw(){
        frame=frameCount% numFrames;
        println(frame);
        image(superNova[frame],0,0,600,600);
    }

KevinWorkman

How big are these pictures?

benben

318,235 bytes each

benja

The filesize is not really important, the impact on memory is dependant on the number of pixels. But if you don't have huge images, this should not be the problem.

Do you get any error-message? Or does it just freeze?

Can you load and display "star-27.png"?

Chrisir

318 MB ?????

koogs

318KB

koogs

but compressed file size is unimportant - those 318K could be a million pixels square

KevinWorkman

What are the dimensions of the images?

You're resizing them to 600x600 anyway, so one approach might be to just do that resizing ahead of time, so the files are smaller and take up less memory.