Dispose

All classes in the OmegaEngine namespace implementing the IDisposable interface must be .Dispose()ed manually.

Unlike other .NET objects you can not rely on the garbage collection to cleanup left-over resources here. This is because of circular references caused by event hooks as well as the asset caching system.

If you forget a .Dispose() this may trigger an exception (in Debug mode) or a log entry (in Release mode) at a non-deterministic point in time.

Lost device

The engine automatically restores a DirectX device if it is lost due to resolution changes, minimizing a fullscreen application, etc..

To reduce the amount of required manual reloading resources are stored in Pool.Managed whenever possible.

When this is not possible:

• A delegate registered at the DeviceLost event must release the resource using .Dispose().
• A delegate registered at the DeviceReset event must reload the resource.