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Dark GDK / Making a loading bar

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Oster200
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Posted: 17th Feb 2012 16:21
How would i go about making a loading bar for a FPS 3d game?

I dont know where to start making one. i want it so it tell you how much longer you have to wait.

Sorry i dont have much info for you but like i said i dont know where to start. like i can make the rectangle i just dont know how to make it move to how many more 3d object are left to load.

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vitinho444
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Posted: 17th Feb 2012 18:01
Unless your game takes more than 20 seconds loading you dont need one

If it takes.. you can make a var like progress and then as you load something you put: progress += 10;

Then show that progress in a way using the bar like dbRect() with the X being a point + the progress .

Its kinda old school but its not that hard.

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Posted: 17th Feb 2012 18:08
haha old school yeah cuz if you do a basic one like that the graphics come out looking like windows 1.0 lol. Oh wait, that's what my GUI library currently looks like!!! Lololol
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Posted: 17th Feb 2012 19:31 Edited at: 17th Feb 2012 19:33
want to make it look prettier? just put a sprite on top of it that covers the whole loading area, your dbRect might be changed to a sprite with stretching because it could be drawn over your "style"-sprite.

or even better:
create sprites that could be aligned in a circular path to form a circle, for demonstration sake, imagine a pizza with 8 pieces, you will just do this: (algorithm)
1- know & store the total number of things to load
2- float fProgressForNextPiece = numThings / 8 (8=pizza pieces)
3- current progress < numThings? go to 4, else, we're done
4- load something, progress++
5- draw <progress / fProgressForNextPiece> sprites
6- sync
7- go to step 3

and for step 5, every time you create a new sprite, do something like:


though there's nothing like "how to make a loading bar", every game has its own way, everyone tries to be creative with his idea, your best choice is to make it something relative to your game itself

vitinho444
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Posted: 17th Feb 2012 20:02
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dont worry my graphics are made in paint xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Im thinking in making them better but paint rules anyway

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Oster200
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Posted: 18th Feb 2012 05:41 Edited at: 18th Feb 2012 05:42
Alright thanks i will have to try out both your ideas.

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