Console 'viewCache' show my large spritesheet in cache 4 times

[Shaun Michael K. Stone]

In my main menu state I am creating only one Sparrow Data and then calling loadGraphicFromTexture for each required graphic. Why is it when I run viewCache in the console I can see the spritesheet is stored 4 times? All of them are identical.

spritesheet.png

spritesheet0.png

spritesheet1.png

spritesheet2.png

return new SparrowData(

PathAssets.getAtlasXml(),

PathAssets.getAtlasAsset()

);

I put a breakpoint in the constructor of Sparrow Data to confirm it is being hit only once.

Thanks.

[Shaun Michael K. Stone]

I see what mistake I made. Had unique set to true on 3 other sprites. Doh!

menuBar.loadGraphicFromTexture(this.textureAtlas, true, MainMenuScreen.MENU_BAR);

Set to false. Did not realize it made a copy of the spritesheet when doing this. No wonder it was lagging. Spritesheet is 16MB.