Is it OK to share SkeletonData instances?

Nimai

Could someone that knows more about the nitty gritty ActionScript runtime tell me if I should expect any issues sharing SkeletonData instances between multiple Spine instances, or caching them for use with future instances? I tried it, and it looked like it all worked... until thorough testing. And then odd issues started cropping up.

Caching, sharing, and re-using SkeletonData instances is a big performance and memory win! I'm pretty keen on doing this, and will continue to investigate- just wanted to start the conversation here. Anyone have any experience?

Pharan

Yes. SkeletonData is meant to be shared across instances of Skeleton.

Nimai

Thanks for the confirmation. That appeared to be the design goal. I see that it has references into our TextureAtlas sub-textures (we're using Starling). Maybe we're disposing of the textures, and still attempting to reuse cached SkeletonData instances... I'll post here if we figure it out.