Hi peps quick question, I come from a web dev background, will using a repeating image e.g. a 960 x 20 gradient repeated yield better results than a 960 x 640 image, take into account that this image could be used within a scrolling background.
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It will yield better results as far as texture memory is concerned, yes.
[lua]local function monitorMem(event)
collectgarbage(“collect”)
print( “\nMemUsage: " … (collectgarbage(“count”)/1000) … " MB”)
print("Texture Usage " … system.getInfo( “textureMemoryUsed” ) / 1000000)
return true
end
Runtime:addEventListener(“enterFrame”, monitorMem)[/lua]
That function is handy for comparisons - note the difference between a large image and a small one repeated a number of times.
Peach 
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