bubbaclark
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In most games when you enter a new level they have a loading screen. With a big picture usually related to the game and a loading bar. IS that possible to make in XP? Would that be considered doing a "Show Picture" event?
Loading Screens?
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If you look at the Rm2k3 game cRaZy_GuY's Journey, there's a loading screen somewhere in that too, but purely for humor purposes. If your game is a humor game and you have 1 funny loading screen it's not bad. But if your game is serious and you have loading screens everywhere while it doesn't need one just to look professional, that's not good.
Desecration
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Earlier versions of mNetplay had loading screens for that I think Wyatt, also they had loading screens for maps. Not long loading screens granted but still loading screens. If you're looking at how to make one try having a look back at that, could help you out.
Loading screens are there to tell the player that the game is not dead. That something is happening.
They should definitely not be there if not necessary.
I made my loading script since I had another script generating stuff which could take long enough to warrant a loading screen.
The most likely proper use would be for scripts generating stuff. It does not necessarily have to be a game. It could be an external tool.
If the loading screen only happens once or twice in the game then I think most people can live with it ^^
On a side note: If you have the loading screen status running in a separate thread then make sure that a situation where Graphics.update can be called in one thread while Sprite is being created in another. Half-created sprites CAN cause errors. It's a type of error that happens randomly and can be very hard to debug.
*hugs*
- Zeriab
They should definitely not be there if not necessary.
I made my loading script since I had another script generating stuff which could take long enough to warrant a loading screen.
The most likely proper use would be for scripts generating stuff. It does not necessarily have to be a game. It could be an external tool.
If the loading screen only happens once or twice in the game then I think most people can live with it ^^
On a side note: If you have the loading screen status running in a separate thread then make sure that a situation where Graphics.update can be called in one thread while Sprite is being created in another. Half-created sprites CAN cause errors. It's a type of error that happens randomly and can be very hard to debug.
*hugs*
- Zeriab
bubbaclark
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Im just asking jeez, >.>. Some of you took that so seriously, w/e thanks for the feedback.