Sheets carry a managed buffer of data that allows updates to be made without having to constantly fetch and set data to the texture memory of the video card. This is useful for things like SheetBuilder which make small progressive changes to sheets.
However these buffers are often large and are kept alive because sheets are referenced by the sprites that use them. If this buffer is explicitly null'ed when it is no longer needed then the GC can reclaim it. Sometimes a buffer need not even be created because the object using the sheet only works on the texture directly anyway.
In practise, this reduced memory consumed by such buffers from ~165 MiB to ~112 MiB (at the start of a new RA skirmish mission).
- Implement IDisposable interface correctly, with sealed classes where possible for simplicity.
- Add using statement around undisposed local variables.
Fixes:
* Nuclear-purple color exploit.
* #3247.
* Removes a bunch of unnecessary color conversions every frame.
Caveats:
* The ramp range is now defined on the palette, so ramps can no longer be set per-player (may impact maps which define custom colors).
* It's no longer possible to perfectly recreate the original WW color ramps (I doubt we care).
* The old ColorRamp setting isn't migrated, so players will lose their color settings.
