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Dark GDK / a simple animated loading screen?

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1beginner1
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 15:02
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Hello

Is there a possibility in Dark GDK to make a loading screen wih a loading bar or something that looks like a loading bar? Or play an animated picture while loading?
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Drowneath
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 15:25
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Sure. Why not?

Split your program into different game states.
Maybe two, the Loading Screen, and Main Screen.

Then draw an animated sprite (the loading animation) in the loading screen state.

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Matty H
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 15:32
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I think you need to look into multi-threading, something I know almost nothing about sorry.
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1beginner1
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 23:07
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Drowneath

I am vere new in game development. And i don't find how i can create what you mean can you explain it more specific? So i can try it in my game.
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soul_C
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Posted: 4th Aug 2009 03:04 Edited at: 4th Aug 2009 08:16
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Im not to sure about how to make a loading bar. but a opening credit/loading page would look somthing like this.
I cant quite remember what the command is to make an animated sprite



Hope this helps

Edit: change it to dbCreateAnimatedSprite. i haven't tested it like this but it should put you in the right direction.
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wickedly kick it
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Sorry to say soul_C but animations cant be loaded via images. Use the create animated sprite command and youll so how to do it . Just look in the documentation.

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soul_C
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I know, but at the time i didn't have any documentation in from of me to help me remember the command, this was just an example to help 1begginer1 to get started. Now that I am home I will correct the error.
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Matty H
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Posted: 4th Aug 2009 14:49
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I think the op is trying to get a loading screen with a bar that indicates how much progress has been made, as far as I know as soon as you use the dbLoadObject, sprite, image etc... your program will stop at that line until it is loaded, therefore leaving you without the ability to update the sprite(object) or do anything animated, I could be wrong.

This is why multi-threading MAY be the way to go, you can have one thread loading your object while the other thread could be updating the screen after calling the dbPlay command.

I feel the real answer to the question maybe yes you can do it, but it might not be worth all the time and effort unless you are fluent in multi-threading, or it is really, really important for your game.
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1beginner1
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Ok I think I don't gonne made a loading screen because i know nothing about multi-threading. And it isn't really important but just wanted something that fills up the black screen when the game is loading

Thanks for all the posts
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randal
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Posted: 5th Aug 2009 11:52 Edited at: 5th Aug 2009 11:54
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//oops
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randal
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Posted: 5th Aug 2009 11:54
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for(int i=0; i<numObjectsToLoad; i++)
{
loadobject(i);
updateProgressBar();
dbSync();
}

while(1)
{
//gameloop
dbSync();
}
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1beginner1
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Posted: 5th Aug 2009 14:41
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When I debug he gives the error identifier not found for updateProgressBar and loadObject. Do I need to include something in beginnig of code or did I something else wrong. Or do I need to declare them.
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heyufool1
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Posted: 5th Aug 2009 19:37 Edited at: 5th Aug 2009 19:38
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Try dbLoadObject(i); but I can't find anything for a progress bar command...

Use Google first... it's not rocket surgery!
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Posted: 5th Aug 2009 20:18
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randal posted pseudo code why did you try to compile it?? of course it won't work. you're supposed to put your functions into it


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making a loading bar is simple, ok so just take a standard ummm green bar (you can make it in dgdk or just load on up) it would only need to be 1 pixel wide, then just use sprite and when you need to make the progress bar go up then you just "Stretch" the sprite. i think the command is dbStretchSprite().

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randal
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yes my code is pseudo. You are meant to write your own functions for loadobject() and updateProgressBar()

just trying to show that your loading screen and game loop are apart and both loops does dbSync().

In the loading screen loop you would add sprites/shapes to increment your loading bar on the screen every time you load something. So if you load 10 objects you would update the bar 10 times.

When the loading is complete you would start the main game loop.
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