is there anything less memory consuming than this: typedef struct color { uint8_t R; uint8_t G; uint8_t B; } typedef struct Voxel { PxMaterial mVmat; bool vxl_mask[4096]; color vxl_color[4096]; };
Note: im useing PhysX API
The vxl_mask tells what cubes are visible (the invisible ones aren't created)
Why, yes. Comment it all out.
That's probably not what you're looking for.
On many machines, bool is as big as int. Making your mask out of uint8 should reduce the size of that part by at least a factor of two -- four on a 32-bit machine. Making it into a bitfield should reduce the size by another factor of eight, at the cost of more processing to extract the right bit.
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Fold vxl_mask *into* vxl_color. (unless "color" is a particular data type in itself that can exist in the absence of "mask"s).
"color"s will almost surely get packed (aligned) into 32b quantities (whether those are ints, longs, etc. on your platform). As such, there are 8 "wasted bits" in each "color".
To make this more explicit, you could think of a bitfield that represents: RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBB-------M
thanks for the help
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