How handle too many textures/sprites?

Hi,

in my game, there is only one scene. In this scene there are 9 sprites tiled. When the user clicks one of the images, the sprite changes the image.

The problem is here, that I have hundreds of sprite images. At the moment, I have 3 big images (1024x1024) where the sprites are. But that's not enough. I need more images.

What is the best way to do this?
Are individual textures better? -> I mean hundreds of individual textures. Later, I change this texture on a quad.
Which has the best performance?

Thanks.

 

Read about Texture Atlas mb this help.

 

I'm using texture atlas. 3 big images with sprites.

 

You mean 1024 x 1024 atlas? or one image 1024 x 1024?
In some games i have seen 10k + size atlases, and this was okay.
Dont care about images, you can open games like WOW or other and they have more...
Just make better separate categorys of your images.

But i think what 10 atlases better than 1k images.

 

3 images. One image size (width 1024px) x (height 1024px). I scaled the sprites. Now, I have more space. I think, that is the best solution.