How to avoid timeline load at startup

ciro_camera

AC 1.83.0
Hi,
profiling the memory, I have seen that all the inventory items are loaded at startup, including their texture and use/esamine action lists. In particular, in an item, there's a reference to a timeline, and hence the referenced atlas is loaded.
Is there a way to avoid it?

Thank you.

ChrisIceBox

Can you share screenshots of the Timeline / ActionList involved, and how many Items have a Timeline referenced in this way?

ciro_camera

Hi Chris, thank you.
Here is the screenshot: it's the action list used in "Use" slot in Standard interactions of a inventory item. As you can see the second action (it's a custom) calls the timeline that is a prefab. The sprites of the timeline are in a Atlas and when the inventory is loaded seems to load the atlas/timeline too.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11MqtT08muqEWSE0PR9JFcnIBENxLH_Hd/view?usp=sharing

Thank you.

ChrisIceBox

As it's a custom Action, it could be modified it to accept an Addressable reference to the Director, and then load that Director from the Addressable before it runs.

Otherwise, you could clear the Director field and override it with a GameObject parameter, and then use a custom script to assign that parameter to the Director when the ActionList is run.

ciro_camera

Ok, thank you, btw, is there a way to avoid loading all the inventory items at startup?

ChrisIceBox

The Items themselves would need to be declared, but you could use scripting to populate their data (e.g. textures etc) at runtime.

To get an API reference to a particular field, right-click the field's label in the AC Game Editor.