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I am creating multiple sprites from same texture in PIXI v5, I have few questions:

 

1. When I am not going to use specific sprite anymore, do I need to remove the sprite from container with container.removeChild(sprite) before calling sprite.destroy()?

I call destroy without arguments because I don't want to destroy the texture which I might use later to create more sprites.

 

2. What is the difference between calling container.removeChild(sprite) and sprite.destroy(without arguments)?

Does the GC collect everything regarding the sprite in either way? (except the texture which is in the GPU memory).

 

Thanks!

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1. destroy() in sprites are actually a over-, javascript GC will take it anyway just like any other object. It could be different if Textures had links to sprites (events, subscribe) but they aren't. You remove sprite from container and pixi forgets about it.

2. sprite fields are getting slaughtered and its not usable anymore, many things will just throw error when you try to use them :)

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7 minutes ago, ivan.popelyshev said:

1. destroy() in sprites are actually a over-, javascript GC will take it anyway just like any other object. It could be different if Textures had links to sprites (events, subscribe) but they aren't. You remove sprite from container and pixi forgets about it.

2. sprite fields are getting slaughtered and its not usable anymore, many things will just throw error when you try to use them :)

Okay! Regarding the #1 question, would you call both removeChild() and .destroy() in that order or only either in my case when you don't need to use that same sprite later?

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7 hours ago, themoonrat said:

I'd just call destroy

As part of the DisplayObject's destroy function, it has the following code, that removes itself from any parent it has 

if (this.parent)
{
    this.parent.removeChild(this);
}

Moonrat is the best! Thanks dude :)

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  • 10 months later...

Well technically that's what I'm doing now.

Although, what if I have children of children I'd like to destroy? Isn't there some API ready for this? Or should I just iterate?


My use case in particular is:

I have 2 main scenes (which i switch based on a condition).

Both scenes, have along the pixi tree - nested at an arbitrary level - some components with observable properties and on destroy of that component i remove those observers.

When I switch scene the idea was to removeChildren from it to "clear" the tree and free some memory, but by doing this, I'm not actually destroying every single instance, and some observer might still be alive.

What's the best approach in this case?

 

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