Game scene management method

Abstract

The invention discloses a game scene management method for managing a scene graph in a game engine. The scene graph comprises a plurality of group nodes and leaf nodes which have parent-child relations, wherein parts of leaf nodes comprise reference counts. The method comprises the following steps that: when the game engine traverses the scene graph to reference one of the leaf nodes which comprise the reference counts for the first time, the game engine loads the leaf node to a memory space, obtains an address pointer and initializes the reference count of the leaf node; when the game engine references the leaf node once again, the game engine references the leaf node by the address pointer and increases the reference count of the leaf node; when the game engine finishes one-time reference of the leaf node and reduces the reference count of the leaf node; and when the reference count of the leaf node is smaller than an initial value of the reference count, the game engine releases the memory space occupied by the leaf node.

Description

【Technical field】 [0001] The invention relates to the field of game engines, in particular to a game scene management method. 【Background technique】 [0002] Games are an indispensable entertainment item in people's daily life. Behind almost every game now, there is a matching game engine. The game engine controls various resources in the game. Modern game engines basically include: Graphics engine , sound engine, physics engine, control engine, artificial intelligence or game logic, etc. [0003] The image engine is used to draw a specific game scene, wherein the game scene refers to the game picture displayed on the monitor. figure 1 A simple game scene 100 in the prior art is shown. Please refer to figure 1 As shown, the game scene 100 includes a LCD TV 102 , a TV box 104 , a TV cabinet 106 , a table 108 , a notebook 110 , a first cup 112 , a second cup 114 and a room 116 . When the image engine draws a game scene, it usually uses a scene graph to organize and manage ...

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Problems solved by technology

When there are many identical and similar scene objects in the game, for example, some large-scale games may have dozens or even hundreds of wild monsters of the same type or similar trees in one scene, the above implementation method greatly increases the complexity of the game scene graph And the memory waste is serious

In addition, in terms of memory management, complex reference relationships will lead to problems such as memory release errors and pointer errors

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