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Prealoading assets
Ninjadoodle
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Hi Guys
I just wanted to ask a couple of questions about preloading and whether it's necessary etc.
How does loading in Gideros work? Does it load into memory only what's in the current level?
If that's the case, is there a danger of a long wait when switching from scene to scene, waiting for the next scene to load?
I'm not really sure whether preloading is necessary, so I'm wondering how you guys go about doing this.
Thank you in advance!
I just wanted to ask a couple of questions about preloading and whether it's necessary etc.
How does loading in Gideros work? Does it load into memory only what's in the current level?
If that's the case, is there a danger of a long wait when switching from scene to scene, waiting for the next scene to load?
I'm not really sure whether preloading is necessary, so I'm wondering how you guys go about doing this.
Thank you in advance!
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Thus it is recommended to preload all your assets on scene start, or better yet to pack the into texture packs, one pack for each scene or as close to it as possible
Thanks heaps for the quick reply! I'm still not quite sure how to go about this tho.
Do I have to load the assets inside a Scene Start listener or just at the top of the script somewhere?
I've been searching the forums and found some examples, but I'm still pretty confused about this.
I'm gonna have a look into it some more and see what I can figure out
If you can fit all assets in 1024x1024 then just put them in one pack and store in global variable, thus they will always be in memory
If there are more textures, then try dividing them by scenes.
In this case on scene init you would load a texture pack and store it in scene property
on scene exit you could (but not mandatory) call garbagecollect (I even think sceneManager does it automatically for you)
If there are too many images overlapping between scenes, then you can create one global pack with most common images and then each for each separate scene.
Just don't get your one single pack bigger than 1024x1024 if you want your game to run on all possible devices, even old ones.
Since loading one bigger pack will take more time on scene start (but speed up the running scene), then I implement a little hack into scenemanager to display a loading text
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/3220#Comment_3220
Hope that helps