Quick question: Discarding unused resources?

[Suppercut]

How would I unload graphics or sounds? Does the garbage collector do it (as in setting all its reference indices to nil so it becomes unused)?

[slime]

Yep, if there are no more references to an object, then the garbage collector will take care of it eventually. If you want it to happen immediately, you can force a couple garbage collection cycles with: collectgarbage() collectgarbage().

[Suppercut]

And this will remove the resource itself from memory, not just the object associated with it? So if I remove all references to an Image or Canvas, eventually the graphics card memory will be freed?

[slime]

Yep, as long as other LÖVE functions don't hold references to it. For example if an Image is used by a SpriteBatch then it won't be completely deleted at least until the SpriteBatch is deleted as well.

[Suppercut]

Alright, thanks mate!