Having done the same, but with 20/30 kb images, I can say no, your going to have a big problem.
2 work arounds, but I don't think they'll work in your case. Both are glorified bandaids and not very good. 1)In actual play it will take a little less, rather than in developing the module. Add fewer cards, then save the module. Perhaps restarting after every save. 2)Get a computer with more memory, and allocate more to the java stack on startup. The solution (had I to do it over again, and I may some day) is to use a background image for the face of each card, enter the text as a property, and trim your image to contain only the image specific to that card. The B5 module runs with about 400-500 cards (and a palette of 2300) in play and each image is ~25KB. A game will almost always start with about 300-400 MB and will increase to about 750 MB. I don't think that the piece rotation algorithms are linear in their use of space. Large images require a lot more memory to manipulate. So at 80 KB an image, I really don't see how you'd survive without 2 GB of memory or more. --- alejandroanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > first, sorry for my english :) ... > Ok, I'm having this problem: > My notebook usually uses 180 mb of 512 mb that it > has, without > porgrams running. It has an on board video card that > uses part of > its 512 mb. > I've been working in a Vassal module (a Mythos ccg) > for solitaire > playing, and when I got to load 170 cards a message > appears wich > tells me that the aplication "has run out of > memory". Then I checked > the memory usage and found that it was at 480 mb > (close to 512). > Then, vassal was using 300 mb to store the cards in > memory... I > guess. > Each jpg card image has no more than 80 kb. > So, my cuestion is: > I cannot reduce the card images in size because I > wouldnt be able to > read part of its contents. Is there another way to > reduce the memory > usage? > I'd like to load at least, 400 cards. Is that > possible? > > Another cuestion: > Is there a way to reduce the size of the initial > view of the cards > if you're not using the zoom tool? I mean I just > want to view > them "large" only when I place the mouse over them. > My problem is > that they appear as they are in the original jpg > image. > > Hope to be cleare, sorry for being this newbe, and > thanks in advance. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news
