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[cassius]

How do I do a black screen with the word "Loading" and load in all the assets while this screen is on?

[Thirsty Panther]

There is a thread that talks about this. The title says Lua but others offer C++ options.

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/11758-animated-loading-screen-with-lua/page__hl__loading+screen

[f13rce]

Assuming you're loading stuff in one big chunk, you can do something like:

 

Texture *background = Texture::Load("./path");
context->SetColor(Vec4(1));
context->DrawTexture(background);
context->DrawText("Loading...", 25, 25);
context->Sync();
LoadAssets();

 

But if you want to have a progress bar for loading, you can seperate the loading part into functions like LoadModel(std::string path) and do:

void LoadModel(std::string path)
{
  models[ modelIndex ] = LoadModel(path);
  modelIndex += 1;
  RedrawScreen();
}

void RedrawScreen()
{
  itemsLoaded += 1;
  // Draw background here
  context->DrawRect(startX, startY, barLength / totalItems * itemsLoaded, barHeight);
  context->Sync();
}

 

With the above code I'm assuming you pre-load your assets in a class where you can retrieve them from later. You could make the class static so that every class can reach it without having a reference, but that's kinda ugly

[cassius]

Thanks for replys.