Too many spines ? The buffer is full (128) (SOLVED)

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I’m new to the engine, I’ve been experimenting with making animations using Dragon Bones and it worked quite well up until now. However, at some point, I couldn’t build the game anymore because I think I made too many animated game objects. I was getting the two GAMESYS ERRORS

ERROR:GAMESYS: Sprite could not be created since the sprite buffer is full (128).
ERROR:GAMESYS: Spine Model could not be created since the buffer is full (128).

As told, I increased the max count for both the spine and sprite from the default value 128 to 512 in the game.project, but it didn’t help, Now I’m getting the following error:

ERROR:RIG: Rig Instance could not be created since the buffer is full (128), consider increasing rig.max_instance_count.

I didn’t succeed in finding this rig.max_instance_count anywhere and I don’t even know if it will solve my problem.

My questions now are:

  1. Where can I find this rig.max_instance_count?

  2. If my problem resides elsewhere and there is no solution for it, are there some ”good practices” related to making animations and how to implement them in a way to avoid this problem?

I will describe what I did up til now, maybe you can point out something wrong and non optimized for the engine.

  • I start by making independent game objects and animate them with spinemodels (for most of the animations I only use 2 to 4 bones and make some very basic scaling, rotation…)

  • Create collections for the blocs I planning to use to make the levels, like different terrains with animated herbs or trees with moving leaves

  • Create a level collection and build it using the blocs I created before

  • Add the level collection to the main collection

Thanks in advance

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Unfortunately, this seems like a hidden configuration key.
The key is in classic “config file” format, so if you add this to your game.project, it should work:

[rig]
max_instance_count = 160

@sicher, perhaps you could add this key to the documentation?

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Thanks a lot, it worked just fine !

Is there a downside or a limit to increasing this value ?

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That value is creating a buffer that makes the engine faster (not having to create the spineobject assets in runtime). Increasing the value means creating more of these objects at start but I believe that will only impact memoryprint as they are in a buffer, not being used.

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