Splitting Assets from Code: Difference between revisions
Corrected a factual mistake regarding global variable initialization.
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The idea is, before you start rendering the level, you load any textures you need into your global cache (which can be any size you want, not just 4096 bytes). Then, when the data isn't needed anymore, you mark that part of the buffer as "empty" and you can overwrite it with new data.
You're probably wondering: "Hold on, this global buffer variable is part of the code... Won't it be subject to the exact same 1MB restriction we had before?". The answer is
== Having a buffer somewhere in RAM ==
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