Hi there, in my application i need to create and destroy some objects depending by user interaction with the scene. I’ve found out that every time i destroy and then re-create the object the heap memory increase: it seems that some resources are not released properly. So the question is, what’s th…

You don’t dispose neither materials nor textures. So every click they are adding to the scene again and again…

I’ve disposed also all material and the (the only one) texture…it seems much better: https://playground.babylonjs.com/#TESQZM#20 So, generally speaking, it is not enough to dispose only the mesh, i must always dispose each material and texture of that mesh, is ti right? Thank you very much, now i …

You can also pass true as the second parameter to dispose to have Babylon dispose the material and textures for you. :slightly_smiling_face: https://playground.babylonjs.com/#TESQZM#22

[image] Blake: Babylon dispose the material and textures for you. :slightly_smiling_face: https://playground.babylonjs.com/#TESQZM#22 Still Inspector shows more and more textures with each click.

Thing is it depends cause materials and textures may be shared so you need to manage their lifetime. You can nevertheless use the dispose parameters of the mesh to handle it from the mesh [image]

[image] labris: Still Inspector shows more and more textures with each click. The function display creates a temp DynamicTexture. Calling temp.dispose() at the end of the function resolves this second issue. :slightly_smiling_face: :beers: Babylon.js Playground Babylon.js playgr…

Here is the small utility which may help a lot with leakages :slight_smile: - Babylon Scene Debugging Tool

Will def try that out, overlay with pertinent debug info is right up my alley. :grin:

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Here is the small utility which may help a lot with leakages - Babylon Scene Debugging Tool

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