How to create a fake loading bar???**SOLVED**

It may weird to see I'm asking this sort of question, but a regular loading screen that display actual loading progress is TOO FAST for my game due to its small size. Now I wanted to make a fake loading bar, but I don't know how to do it. Plz help.

 

... so the game would be ready to go, but you want the player to wait for no reason to watch the bar?

 

Presumably, you are wanting to test the loading bar to show it will work when the game does, in fact, take longer to load?

In which case, you would need to make the requisite change(s) in your game loader code to pretend that it is taking longer than it actually needs.

 

I'm certain I've never ever had a request to arbitrarily make something take longer to load for absolutely no reason other than taking longer to load.

 

Depends quite heavily on how you're implementing the real progress bar underneath it all (e.g., if there's actual loading of a scene going on or if we're just talking about an image with a loading progress bar that actually reflects no real loading progress).

Either way, I'd suggest throwing a coroutine somewhere into it to make the game wait for X number of seconds, e.g.,:

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator WaitForLoadingBar(float seconds)
2. {
3.      float currentTime = seconds;
4.  
5.      while (currentTime > 0)
6.      {
7.           currentTime -= Time.deltaTime;
8.           yield return null;
9.      }
10.  
11.      Debug.Log(seconds + " seconds have passed! And I'm done waiting!");
12. }

 

Just create any animation you want, run it for as long as you want, and then continue with your game when ready.

 

Tossing out one other idea -- you could check the coroutine for progress, and compare it to a minimum time. Use whichever is smaller of the two.

 

Okay you guys know what, screw it, I think my game doesn't need that sort of feature.

 

Hi,

I was facing the same issue for my first game, and here is mine solution.

Code (CSharp):

1. public async void LoadScene(string sceneName)
2.     {
3.         _realProgress = 0.0f;
4.         _fakeProgress = 0.0f;
5.         _loadingSlider.value = 0.0f;
6.  
7.         // Start loading scene but not activate it
8.         var scene = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(sceneName);
9.         scene.allowSceneActivation = false;
10.  
11.         do
12.         {
13.             await Task.Delay(100); // Timeout between the 'ticks' of progress bar
14.             _fakeProgress = _fakeProgress + Random.Range(0.01f, 0.1f); // Value of one 'tick'
15.             _progressTextValue.text = _fakeProgress.ToString("0.00%"); // Displaying progress in %
16.             _loadingSlider.value = _fakeProgress;
17.         } while (_fakeProgress < 0.9f);
18. // Using Random we can have the progress between 0.91 and 1.0 in the end of loop...
19.  
20.         //...so, set the progress bar value to 100%
21.         _loadingSlider.value = 1.0f;
22.         _progressTextValue.text = "100.00%";
23.  
24.         // Meanwhile on the background we checking the real progress
25.         do
26.         {
27.             _realProgress = scene.progress;
28.         } while (_realProgress < 0.9f); // In Unity scene progress always between 0 and 0.9 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
29.  
30.         scene.allowSceneActivation = true; // Now, activate the scene
31.     }

Hope, it'll help for other people seeking for answer to similar problems.

Thanks, and have a great development time all.