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I am developing a game engine but is it bad to import all textures in the project?

yimx · 2023-11-04T19:46:27

Hello, I'm developing a game engine and I'm currently importing all the textures in the Asset folder when the project is opened. But won't this cause problems in large projects? For example, there are 5gb textures in the project and loading all of them is an unnecessary use of memory? Does it make sense to make a dynamic texture loader? That is, loading the textures in the current scene, un-loading all the textures when you switch to another scene and loading only the textures of that scene? I'm Using DirectX 12 Thanks