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[Atelier Sentô]

I have a question about memory usage.
If I use one image several times in the same scene, will it weight as one image in the memory?

Examples:

1- Backgrounds:
In a very wide scene (10000x1080px), I use a repeated image for the background.
My background image is 1000x1080px and is repeated 10 times.
When the scene is loaded, does it load the background image only 1 time, even if it's used 10 times?
Is my scene as light as if it was only 1000x1080px, or as heavy as if it was 10000x1080px?

2- Actors:
My game takes place in Japan so my character is supposed to take off her shoes everytime she enters a house.
My idea is to have 2 main actors loaded in the game.
The first actor has naked feet.
The second actor's sprites reuse the same frames as the first actor. And I add small subframes for the shoes.
So my question is:
If I have 2 actors using the same frames (plus small subframes for the second one), will it be loaded in the computer's memory as 2 actors (loading the frames 2 times) or as 1 actor (loading the frames one time for the 2 actors + subframes)?

I hope my question isn't too muddled... It was difficult to explain in English.
Thank you!

[Mnemonic]

A single image is always loaded only once, no matter how many times it's referenced by various game objects.

[Atelier Sentô]

So I can save memory and create very large scenes by repeating an image background and I can have multiple versions of my main actor just by changing some subframes.
It's an excellent news for me!

Many thanks, Mnemonic!
It helps me a lot.

[Atelier Sentô]

Hello,
I have another question about saving memory.

I often use large trasparent png in my game to create lighting effects (sun rays per example).

A friend suggested to resize them 4 times smaller in photoshop and then to attach this code to the entities:

Code: WME Script

1. this.Scale = 400;

So they will be displayed at the expected size in the game.

I seems to work very well (the HD image is already blurry so there's no visible difference with the small upscalled image).

Is it a good way to save memory in the game?
Should I try to use this trick as often as possible?

Thank you for your help!

[Mnemonic]

If you don't mind the quality difference then yes, this will save a lot of video memory.

[Atelier Sentô]

Great ! So I will use this trick everywhere it can't be noticed.
Many thanks for the answer!