Title Screen While Loading?
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| How do I create a title screen while the 3D game is loading? I don't want to look at a blank screen while the 3D game is loading. |
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Pseudocode:ShowLoader() LoadGameStuff() Function ShowLoader() Load an image Draw the image to backbuffer Flip Free the image End Function Function LoadGameStuff() ;Load your game sounds, graphics etc here end Function |
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| Hey Jeff :)... this is what I use for showing a loading screen & playing a `theme tune`... Graphics3D 800,600,32,1 SetBuffer BackBuffer() ;*************** loading screen ********* logo=LoadImage("loadpic.jpg") MidHandle logo Cls DrawBlock logo,GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2 Flip music=LoadSound("Themetune.mp3") If music LoopSound music mc=PlaySound(music) EndIf Delay 3000 ; set to allow time for any instructions to be read ;****************************************** view=CreateCamera() CameraRange view,1,14000 EntityRadius view, 2, 2 PositionEntity view,45,55,-250 etc etc etc etc etc.............................................. |
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| Is it possible to scale an image to fit the screen? |
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| Yes, but it's ugly, so don't do it. Use a bigger image and adjust the UV coordinates so that only the screen-sized area is shown on your screen quad. |
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| Iam missing Amiga functions (stupid PC..) Specialy the COPER processor. and to use Hardware interupt every vblank.. missing missing..... so nice loading starfields days.. |
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