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jpfed / Adrift

You are a space pilot lost in an endless maze of extraterrestrial caverns. Can you find your way home?
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Physics bodies do not always get cleaned up #26

Closed dgfitch closed 14 years ago

dgfitch commented 14 years ago

You can see this easier if an enemy is near a floor and drops a powerup. Sometimes the old body is still there after it is done exploding. Not sure what causes this.

jpfed commented 14 years ago

This was actually part of my motivation for "corpses" that would get eaten by grasshoppers or spore-fungi: then you would be able to see the thing that's getting in your way as you attempt to pick up the powerup. :P

If we're lucky, the GC issues will be automagically taken care of in 0.6. If not, it's hard to see a way to fix this other than replacing LOVE with our own framework that embeds Lua in C.

Note that even if you aren't holding a reference to a physics object, it won't get GCed for a little bit, which is why when we did our first sidescroller tests it was so hard to see why the objects were getting GCed- they would stick around for a little bit before suddenly becoming "immaterial".