Hi, I’ve implemented my own method to dispose a loaded model (THREE.Group) form a .glb file. To me it looks fine but I’d like someone to check if it’s the correct way to dispose resources or if I’m missing something? unload(target:THREE.Object3D){ target.removeFromParent(); tar…

missing child.skeleton.boneTexture.dispose(); and you all set :+1: but if you never use skinned mesh, you can skip this.

It looks good, however I’m not greatly qualified to say this—as I’ve just recently setup my own similar glb/gltf unloader. I also remove elements from the scene e.g. scene.remove(model) and use dispose e.g. renderer.dispose(). Basically I take out everything out of an abundance of caution after expe…

Yes, totally agree/support this way too, the paranoia path :smile: I didn’t wanted to be picky and talk about NULL . But I think it’s more relevant than ever. Since three.js objects become more complex each release, it’s indeed a good move to facilitate browser’s garbage collector feature ( GPU is n…

Browsers are smart enough to garbage collect any unreferenced resource. The most important thing is to not keep any reference/variable pointing to your assets. If you keep around any pointer it won’t be disposed even when calling object.dispose().

@Fennec I thought the browser would do this until I created a model loader that would eventually max out allocated memory (and crash all browsers I tested, mobile and desktop) after loading enough models without applying the method I mentioned above. Before this incident I’d never even worried about…

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Oxyn July 11, 2023, 3:35pm 2

missing child.skeleton.boneTexture.dispose(); and you all set
but if you never use skinned mesh, you can skip this.

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