Esoteric Software

[Nate]

http://esotericsoftware.com/blog/Performance-metrics

[tdawson]

This is good information on Performance metrics. Thanks!

[BinaryCats]

Would it be possible to show an estimated amount of texture memory? i.e. number of texture atlases it will take*32

We recently had to scale down a lot of our atlas' as we where unaware how much space they where taking up

[Nate]

We'd have to pack the images for the numbers to be accurate if whitespace stripping is used. It would be misleading otherwise.

[BinaryCats]

Yeah, I realise this. I was in a rush to write that last post, I did not have much time.

I still think it would be useful, maybe a warning would be needed. Or perhaps calculating the minimum amount of memory would be needed (Texture area * 32) as you already calculate the attachment area. It still wouldn't be accurate but at least the artist(/who ever) has a way of seeing how much memory they are using.
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Obviously you can not run the texture packer all the time when spine is running, but you could just calculate it anytime a new attachment is added. This too, could lead to performance problems when using spine. (using the script) so maybe a button to calculate it, or a tickbox (off by default) to automatically calculate the amount of memory the textures are using, anytime an attachment is changed.