John Wright wrote:
> why not use:
> TextureLoader loader = new TextureLoader(filename, this);
> textureAppearance.setTexture(loader.getTexture());
>
> Aren't you forcing each texture to be 1024x1024 (HUGE!!!)?
That alone would take up 8.3MB of RAM per texture (1024 x 1024 x4 bytes
per pixel x 4 copies stored in memory by the java runtime) - and that
doesn't include the extra copies that the texture loader makes when it
rescales the image. Any more than a couple and your poor VM will die.
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