Texture cleanup after destroyEntity

[so0os]

I'm positng it here, since I'm not sure what to make of it.

When I was destroying entities, I thought it textures would get destroyed as well, but I ended up clogging up my GPU mem.

Is unloading unreferenced resources necessary to clean the textures? I wasn't loading the textures and materials explicitly, but I need to get rid of them myself. Thus, I suggest documentation notice on 'destroyEntity' method.

Also, unloading unreferenced textures didn't help as well, because they were referenced from material's TextureUnitStates. So I needed to do this tlike this:

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// DESTROY ENTITIES, AND THEN...
MaterialManager::getSingletonPtr()->unloadUnreferencedResources(true);
TextureManager::getSingletonPtr()->unloadUnreferencedResources(true);

Or perhaps I'm missing something obvious?

[CABAListic]

This is expected and intended behaviour. An Entity is just a visual instance of several resources, namely Meshes, Materials and Textures. Said resources are implicitly loaded when constructing the entity (if they aren't already), but they are not implicitly released. In fact, it would be disastrous to do so, because often you will create and destroy several instances (Entities) of those resources, and if at each point you would have to load the resources all over again, that would mean freezes in your game during the resource loading.

So yeah, if you actually don't need the resources anymore, you need to explicitly tell Ogre.

[so0os]

Thanks, case closed!

EDIT: But still, I suppose this should be documented.