What is the best practice to loading content in the background?

[Im-Oab]

Hi, I just curious about What is the best practice to loading content in the background?

Currently, I load 10 files per update() and if accumulated time more than 1 second. It will not continue loading files until accumulated time back to normal. This allows my scene to have a loading animation.

[17cupsofcoffee]

I think the ideal solution is to have assets load on a seperate thread - you can then use something like a channel or an atomic to communicate back to the main thread what the progress is.

The important thing to consider is that Context can't be accessed unless you're on the main thread - so for types like Texture which need to access Context, you'll need to pass the loaded file back across to the main thread to create your final asset (e.g. via Texture::from_file_data).

I'll try to write up an example of what this could look like, it's something I've been meaning to do for a while!

[Im-Oab]

Last time, I attempted for loading in the background. I stuck with Texture and Context. :')

Also, I appreciate your examples. My game's codes come from study your examples.

[17cupsofcoffee]

Here's what I was able to come up with:

https://gist.github.com/17cupsofcoffee/bb57dc1ebfe6507a262513117d0b1901

As mentioned in the comments, this isn't the only (or even necessarily the right) way to do this, but it should hopefully give you some ideas 😄 I've not worked on any projects big enough to really need a proper loading screen yet, so this was a good learning experience for me.