custom loading bar

Hi,

I would like to know if I can show a custom loading bar while the level is loading.

Im using unity IPhone Pro.

thanks,
Srikanth.

 

No

 

bummer eh?

i ended up just adding a simple scene with the words "Loading" and "Wait you impatient bastard" on it that is loaded before the gameplay scene so at least it doesn't look like the game crashed. That's my simple minded solution.

 

hmmmmmmm I hope it gets better soon.

 

I read somewhere that Unity Wii supports this, and that they plan to port it over to Unity iPhone - but I'm not entirely sure.

 

I suppose it's possible through scripting, by using different threads. If one thread changes a value, and the other one changes the width of the mask of a bar by that value, i think it might be possible.

 

Nope, because loading is done in the time of one frame.

What you could do is split up the scene you want to load in multiple scenes, and load them additively, and each time one gets loaded, it updates the bar, and it loads the next part. It would involve a lot of work though, and the loading bar still wouldn't be very smooth. And I suppose loading times will increase as well.

 

i thought it was possible to get the byte array of an object/file/whatever. So it also must be possible to loop through the bytes while loading, and adjust your loading bar by the bytearray.length/bytearray-position

 

Okay, that might work, presuming you can create all your objects from files. It will work for textures, etc, but some other stuff might be trickier (prefabs, for instance). I'm not sure.

 

A scene to Null scene to B scene...

but...is dead~~