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Is there a way I can remove a parent sprite without losing the scene ?
I mean what I do when recycling my objects is I put them in an array , I remove them from the display list by removeChild method  and then I add them back again. but whenever I do that for a parent of the flare main class I can't get the scene back right away. I have to rather removing the parents from the display list just set their visible mode to false witch is not practical. is there a way to remove the parents but keep the scene in the child class there in pause state or another inactive state ???
thanks in advance.

Hi med,

we have been working on memory management, but we are very close to Adobe Max and and we will not upload a new version these days.

if you want, send us a private mail  and i will send you a beta version.

about the scene container, we did this way, because many users uses the 3d scenes in flash timeline,so if the movieclip or sprite is removed, the scene is automatically disposed.

if you have your objects in memory, you can try create a new scene and add your saved 3d objects to the new scene. (you need to remove them from the scene before its disposed).

Thank you Nehmad, Ariel for this answer. I ll try removing objects before removing parent movie clip and give feed back :)

Hi , I tried to free the memory using the beta version source, but it didn't work for me. the memory usage keeps growing each time I load a flare3d file and dispose the scene. here is the code I'm using,

package classes.animations
{
    import flare.basic.Viewer3D;
    import flare.basic.Scene3D;
    import flare.core.Pivot3D;
    import flare.utils.*;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;

    public class Main extends Sprite
    {
        private var scene:Scene3D;
        private var genLink:String;
       
        public function Main(_genLink:String)
        {
            genLink = _genLink;
            xml3DLoaded();
        }
        // the recycling function
        public function mainRecycle(_genLink:String):void
        {
            genLink = _genLink;
            xml3DLoaded();
        }
        function xml3DLoaded():void
        {
            scene = new Viewer3D(this);
            scene.addChildFromFile(genLink);
        }
        // the destroyer function
        public function eventsKiller():void
        {
            scene.dispose();
        }
    }
}

 if u run it on a flare 3d files of 8000 polygons or so u ll notice that the memory usage keeps growing. Can please somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong or how I can fix it to get the garbage collector to do the job ??
Thanks in advance.

Hi med, we'll take a look at this as soon as possible.

Thank you :)

Hi,

Any advance on this? I have the same problem. I use the engine in several parts of my application and i cant recycle the instance because it disposes itself when i reparent it to another sprite. Creating new instances seems to be memory leaking..

I understand that you dispose the scene when the child is removed from stage to protect some people for not calling dispose() explicitly but you should leave an option for advanced users who wants to keep it in memory.

Anyway, is there any beta version or something that solves this? Thanks!

Well, I'm still waiting for that too. Right now what I'm doing is setting the 3d scenes to invisible and I visible them each time i need to display them , wich is not practical at all but it's the only solution I came up with. :(

yes, im tempted to do the same. Lets see if Flare3d team tells us something before do it... Just a way to avoiding the removeChild disposal will do the trick