Loading screen

[Wessel]

Hi,

Im creating a simple game in Direct3D. I would like to show a loading screen while my program loads up resources like textures and scripts. The problem is, while my program is busy loading resources, there isnt any rendering taking place so I cannot show a progressbar or anything. Im rendering within a window using the Invalidate method. How should I handle this? Should I load one resource at a time per frame cycle?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

 

[ardman]

My suggestion is that if you are going to use a progress bar then, do a render whilst loading the resources. e.g.

device.BeginScene()
 Update progressbar (not sure if your using a vertex)
device.EndScene()
device.Present()

 Load texture resources
....
device.BeginScene()
 Update progressbar
device.EndScene()
device.Present()
 Load model resources
...
device.BeginScene()
 Update progressbar
device.EndScene()
device.Present()
etc.....

 

[Wessel]

Thanks for your code, but I made the choice of loading one resource each frame cycle, this is still fast enough. It may not be the most ideal method but it fits best in my design I think.