handling of WebGL contexts

[hybridius]

hey everyone,

 

I've been around this forum a couple of times, and have usually found what I am looking for somewhere, but I'm a bit at a loss right now.

 

I'm using Babylon.js to visualize architectural plans. The pre-babylon.js calculations have become sufficiently fast to load a number of scenes in quick succesion after another. My problem: This does not delete the webgl / babylon context. Anytime I load a new scene, the old one does not disappear (obvious from performance).

 

I have come up with a number of ideas, but none have helped thus far.

1) I have deleted and recreated the object responsible for anything babylon.js.

This has had no effect.

 

2) There is only one active canvas at all times. Whenever a new scene is created, I delete the canvas, and do a parentNode.replaceChild with a new one.

This has had no effect.

 

3) I have reset the old WebGL context to it's initial state (see https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Debugging), and created a new one.

This has returned me a slew of errors

 

WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: uniformMatrix4fv: location is not from current program         babylon.2.0.js:4

WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: uniformMatrix4fv: location is not from current program         babylon.2.0.js:4
WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: uniform4f: location not for current program                          babylon.2.0.js:4
WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: drawElements: no valid shader program in use                    babylon.2.0.js:4

 

from babylon.js and breaks performance, showing me again that babylon.js tries to perform actions on the old context.

 

As far as I am aware, I can not actively delete WebGL contexts - I have to wait for garbage collection to do that for me - but maybe I can disable any functions on that context or something the like? I would really appreciate help on the topic.

 

As a side note, I'd appreciate tips on performance in general.

 

hybridius

[GameMonetize]

Hello,

 

Perhaps I did not get your question, but what about just calling scene.dispose() ?

[Temechon]

scene.dispose();scene = null;

Should do the trick. Do you create a new engine each time ? Do you have a running example somewhere to try to debug ?

[hybridius]

hello,

 

to think this was so easy... thanks a lot, you two