And so friends, I decided to go into my old project and try to revive it.
It was made quite a long time ago, so there were big problems with optimization. I have already been able to reduce the average size per layout from 380 MB to 250 MB, but it seems to me that this is still too much for a mobile game. A large number of phones cannot digest and run my game, half lag, and only the new flagships play at a normal frame rate.
I have a problem that seems unsolvable to me. The game has a car body sprite with 70 frames of animation (which are constantly updated with updates) with an average size of approximately 700x300 each. This is a lot, and it is obvious that they take up most of the memory, + I attach to them headlights, bumpers, windows, wheels and other elements of cars, which also store 70 frames and eat a lot.
Tell me, anyone who knows, how can I optimize the project so that these cars don’t eat up too much memory? Perhaps I need to separate all the cars into a separate object? But this is crazy, because i have to do the same with the headlights, windows, wheels etc. This is physically impossible.
Perhaps there is some kind of life hack, solution? How can I optimize my project?
Maybe some kind of unloading system? Compression systems? Downsizing systems?