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[TheDarkJay]

TheDarkJay

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Oh god, that popping-in-of-textures is annoying in games. Makes me miss the long elevator rides in Halo (as I understand it, the game uses 'dull zones' like that to actually load the next area ).

[Windy]

Windy

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Technically, they're still doing popping-in-of-textures, they're just doing it in a way which you don't have to see it

[TheDarkJay]

TheDarkJay

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Technically, they're still doing popping-in-of-textures, they're just doing it in a way which you don't have to see it

I know. Still, I have to question the sanity of an industry nowadays, and gamers, that can tolerate such a thing in cutscenes. I'd gladly have an extra second of darkness personally compared to blank models slowly becoming more detailed until about half-way through the actually thing (I'm looking at you, Halo 2)

[nitz]

nitz

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Honestly, I'd rather stare at a loading screen for a bit longer, to allow the textures to load. Speaking of loading screens, I hate ones that have a 'loading bar', and it fills up completely, yet I still sit there staring at it. All I can help think is "Obviously not."

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[Windy]

Windy

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Honestly, I'd rather stare at a loading screen for a bit longer, to allow the textures to load. Speaking of loading screens, I hate ones that have a 'loading bar', and it fills up completely, yet I still sit there staring at it. All I can help think is "Obviously not."

Perhaps they delay it on purpose, to show you've reached 100%
Creating a Loading Screen would be pretty easy to do though, adding a progress bar to that may prove to be a little difficult however >_> <_<

[Dumb_Ass]

Dumb_Ass

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Why so? Create a script to measure how much resources will load, then have the bar fill at...
Resources Loaded
Resources that will load.

[Windy]

Windy

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Why so? Create a script to measure how much resources will load, then have the bar fill at...
Resources Loaded
Resources that will load.

Try to think of it this way.  You're trying to find the length of a string, the string ends with a null character, to find the length of the string you have to traverse one time to get the actual length, then a second time to actually allocate the string in memory, therefore you've effectively performed the same action twice.

[nitz]

nitz

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

Why so? Create a script to measure how much resources will load, then have the bar fill at...
Resources Loaded
Resources that will load.

Try to think of it this way.  You're trying to find the length of a string, the string ends with a null character, to find the length of the string you have to traverse one time to get the actual length, then a second time to actually allocate the string in memory, therefore you've effectively performed the same action twice.

Regardless, I'd rather just look at a static screen that says 'loading', or some fancy animated thing (Katamari, etc.) until it's ready to go. I dislike progress bars being full and I'm still waiting on it to load.

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[AcidGame]

AcidGame

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

If you don't want to implement a progress bar then consider adding some kind of feedback to the loading process to let the user know that your program is actually doing something. Add a small piece of text at the bottom for instance that changes.. "Loading Model Data...", "Loading Texture Resources...", etc.

..And definitely give them something (preferably interesting) to look at while it is loading.

[Trask]

Trask

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

If you don't want to implement a progress bar then consider adding some kind of feedback to the loading process to let the user know that your program is actually doing something. Add a small piece of text at the bottom for instance that changes.. "Loading Model Data...", "Loading Texture Resources...", etc.

..And definitely give them something (preferably interesting) to look at while it is loading.

Yeah, that can be useful to you as well, so you can identify any possible problem areas when loading.

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[Windy]

Windy

Re: About 100 C++ classes later..

I started working on this today, there isn't much to it at the moment though, it'll just tell you what class is being processed at the time, I will probably enhance this further later on to provide more information.  I was able to find and fix a few bugs related to how I load resources which is good too (got textures working!).  I won't bother with a screenshot this time though as there isn't much worth showing

I'm thinking now might be a good time to start working on a game, if only a simple one that utilises what I've done so far.. or perhaps I'm rushing it, I don't know..