Alembic Animations Causes A Memory Leak

My game heavily depends on the alembic format and it has been working great. However, I have noticed that if I am using looped animation like walk cycles, etc, the unity build eats the memory. I am using the timeline and alembic tracks with alembic slots to access specific points of the alembic animation. Animations that are supposed to be cycles, I set the Playable director wrap mode to loop. When playing the builds, I noticed that the longer the animation plays, the memory id being consumed and it does not stop. I don't usually let it go past 3 Gig but I almost let go so far to crash my computer. Is there a solution to this issue?

 

Hello, I am using Unity 2017.3.1f1 Personal 64 Bit.

I will PM you a dropbox link. Once I have made a smaller version of the project.

 

Hello again, I have sent you the dropbox link for the project.

 

Hey I don't know if you missed my comment (as you might be busy) in the conversation I set up, did you or the other guys manage to find out anything?

 

I did it by process of elimination. I played a build of my game and noticed that the game kept eating up the memory in the task manager, so what I did was look up anything that could be do so, I got rid of textures, code and eventually, I came to the animation and noticed that even with nothing attached to it, just having the animation on loop, still had the memory increase. So I disabled the idle animation but kept the other animations to test if it is true and yeah, the memory increase stopped when the idle wasn't playing but did when it was or when other animation loops were playing. That is what I remember of the top of my head. Was that enough information?

Edit: Oh I forgot to mention. I have noticed that if I restart the scene (I put in death barriers to restart the scene), the memory usage drastically decreases.

 

Hey again! Have you made any progress?

 

Hey @cguertin did you manage to figure out the issue?