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Hello!

I want to show something useful while loading the needed game resources.

Are there some best practices, how I can achieve this...
With or without using Threads?

best regards
Matthias

At the moment I'm trying to implement a new ressource manager in my game that also has the ability to render a progressbar (or a load image). It needs no multithreading and just relies on you calling a load() method until all ressources are loaded.
The way I want it to do is something like this:

• at game init, add all required ressources to the ressourcemanager:
  
  Code:
  rMan.addRessourceLocation("gfx/spritesheet.png", RessourceType.SpriteSheet, false);
  rMan.addRessourceLocation("gfx/character1.png", RessourceType.Image, false);
  ...
  
  
  This adds the ressource locations to an Arraylist. It doesn't create the actual objects hence the false as 3rd parameter.
  Specifying true as 3rd param would create the ressource upon adding.
• Then I'll have 2 methods: loadAll() which creates the objects (Images, Animations, etc) for all ressourceLocations and loadOnce() which only creates the object for the next ressource in the arraylist
• getting the size of the arraylist and using loadOnce multiple times in your load screen you would be able to display a progress bar or a logo while the ressources are loaded.
  
  
  Code:
  //GameState: loadScreen
  int itemsLoaded = 0;
  int numItems = -1;
  
  init(){
    numItems = rMan.getNumberOfRessources();
  }
  render(){
  g.DrawString("percent loaded" + (itemsLoaded*100/numItems), 100,100);
  }
  
  update(){
  if(itemsLoaded < numItems)
     rMan.loadOnce(); //load one ressource from the ressource list
  else
    game.enterState(STATE.MAINMENU);
  }
  

Does this make any sense?
Haven't implemented it yet but that's the way I planned to approach the problem.

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team red

I found this!

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3145&hilit=thread+load

Could you post what you finally did or some tips? I've read the link but I'm having troubles to implement it :S

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Sorry for my English, trying to improve!

Maybe I can post my solution today, if I have enough time to work on it.!

After trying some things i got something very simple that works following the last post on the topic you linked.

On the main class, add and enter an "Init State"

In my case:

On the main class initStateList() method just init that state:

And inside "Init State" I render an image on render() and load the rest of states/resources on the update() method:

Like I said it's really simple and it just shows an image while loading resources, but given I don't even have a Resource Manager or anything to load resources it's fine for me, probably you can work from here to make InitState to add useful information, I don't know...

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Sorry for my English, trying to improve!

Yes I already started implementing it the same way

Really simple and very helpful !

thanks for the tip..this helped me a lot