Memory and Resource usage on sprites

Hi.

What is a lower cost on system resources.

Lets say you have 40 variations of ground. The surface your player walks on.

What would consume less?

Combing all 40 variations into an animation, duplicating the object and setting the frame according to the object you want.

Or

Have 40 separate sprite objects?

If it fits into the texture atlas, ie. its pixels is close to ^2 dimensions, then an animation would use less since its all crammed into a nice big texture and fits well.

It makes no difference - either way you have the same number of images. For the things that are actually important to memory use, see the blog post: remember not to waste your memory

It makes no difference - either way you have the same number of images. For the things that are actually important to memory use, see the blog post: remember not to waste your memory

I thought if you had a individual 55px sprite, it will be thrown into a 64 x 64 texture on its into the ram.. whereas if you had multiple 55px sprites, it gets put into a sprite sheet that may fit more/better into texture ^2, no?

At runtime it makes no difference, it has to go into VRam as a texture to be displayed...The sprite sheet cropping is to reduce the download time...