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I'm creating an open-world RPG like Neverwinter nights. But I’m worried about memory and am afraid if I just populate a huge world with physics based sprite nodes, I won't have any memory for anything else.

The method I thought of is to remove the sprites when they go far outside of the viewport and then re-add those sprites when I get close to their location.

How could I accomplish this?

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Try not to worry about the problems you have not faced yet. Make a prototype and do the load-testing and see what are the actual bottlenecks. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 8:59
  • \$\begingroup\$ How does your game know which sprites to spawn where in the first place? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 9:53
  • \$\begingroup\$ @DMGregory I'm thinking I would have a invisible sprite node that encapsulates all others in the area and on collision, I then add those sprite nodes to predesignated points through a function \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 14:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Kromster A fair point lol \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 14:13
  • \$\begingroup\$ That sounds like an approach worth trying. What happens when you test the idea? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 14:15

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