Relasing Loaded Data

[robbythedude]

The title might be a little misleading, so I will try to elaborate as best as possible.

I have a function that runs at the beginning of the game to load images that are only needed at that time. (Example is a Background Image of the Menu) I was just wondering if there is a way to free up/release that image so there is no memory being wasted?

Like,

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image = love.graphics.newImage(bLaaahhhh)

then to unload it,

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love.graphics.release(image)

Something like that. The almighty plan is to just limit the resources waiting on the back-burned to be called.

Hopefully I'm pretty clear, Thanks!

[thelinx]

You just rely on Lua's garbage collection.

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image = nil

The memory will be freed when needed.

[robbythedude]

Easy Enough, Thank You Very Much!