Hey there,

I just stumbled over the Pak Tutorial source and found something like:


So as i read it right, you open a file, read its content and just close the file, and later you use the "precached" data while accessing it once again?

Is this common behavior of the engine? Meaning, if i want to precache some data i open the file, read its content, close it and later if i neet the actual data, image, mesh, whatever, i just open it with the specific type and the engine "knows" this file has been preached and read its data from memory?

If so, how do i release this precached data for good?

Thanks in advance!


Mfg Imp

to precache you don't need to use File, you can just call Images(..)
you can't release precached objects, to release you must create manual object and delete it
Image image;
image.load();
image.del();

Thanks Esenthel!

So as far as I understand you right, if I want to precache things I have to use the appropriate Cache<Type> to load the actual objects and later if I need them I have to access the Cache by get("file", NULL); ?

Does that mean that if I have loaded an Image into the Cache<Image> the method call Image.load("name"); looks up first the Cache and if the Image is not there it tries to load it from disk?

And is this common behavior over the entire API ?

Thanks in advance!


Mfg Imp

Image::load doesn't use Images Cache, it always loads from disk
cache is used only when using Images("..")

Ok, thanks Esenthel!