Issue with Particle system

cocos2d-x C++
#1

Hi,

I’m having a strange issue with particle systems that I’m trying to work out.

I have an amount of particle systems used in a scene. Each type of particle is stored in a CCArray, and all CCArrays are stored in a CCDictionary, like this:

particleContainer_ = CCDictionary::create();
particleContainer_>retain;
>
CCArray *array1 = CCArray::create;
particleContainer_>setObject(array1, key1);
>
CCArray array2 = CCArray::create;
particleContainer_>setObject;
>
>
CCParticleSystemQuad *particle1 = CCParticleSystemQuad::create;
array1>addObject;
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CCParticleSystemQuadparticle2 = CCParticleSystemQuad::create(type);
array2->addObject(particle2);

etc.

Particles are not retained anywhere, so they should be autoreleased. At the release of the scene I call:

CC_SAFE_RELEASE(particleContainer_);

Problem is that when checking allocations in the XCode instruments I am seeing a heap growth from the particle systems each time I load and exit the scene, so they don’t seem to be getting released. Anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks

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#2

Does your particleContainer_ dictionary was added to something else as a children? The CC_SAFE_RELEASE only release the object one time.

#3

Steven Lee wrote:

Does your particleContainer_ dictionary was added to something else as a children? The CC_SAFE_RELEASE only release the object one time.

No it is only retained once, thats what makes it so strange :confused:

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#4

I found a workaround, still not sure why it is happening though.

I was keeping the particles in arrays, and adding them to the active scene using addChild when I needed them. When they were no longer needed they were removed from parent. Adding the particles to the start at init and not adding/removing them solved the problem.

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