Ogre-Next prevent mesh texture flickering when creating scene

[Lax]

Hi,

When I create a scene, I often observe blank items (without texture) and after a short amount of time the items will be covered asynchronously with textures. Is there a way to wait with the scene rendering, until preparation of all visual objects is finished?

What I also can observe is, that when I start a particle effect in realtime, the first time I also see first unpainted particle effect, which also will be covered with the proper texture after short amount of time. This always happens just the first time.

Best Regatds
Lax

[dark_sylinc]

You can call textureGpuManager->waitForStreamingCompletion() every frame to prevent this.

At loading time, you can instead create a loading screen that covers everything (with a spinning circle), and instead of calling waitForStreamingCompletion() you can call every frame:

const bool bDone = textureManager->_update( true );
return bDone && textureManager->isDoneStreaming();

You can close the loading screen when bDone returns true.

Btw as a suggestion, keep a list of textures that you want to preload on startup. You don't have to wait for them, just let the texture stream in the background.

You can also speed up texture loading with the new textureGpuManager->setMultiLoadPool call (this is bleeding edge, there may be bugs, but so far I've found none or have already been fixed)

Cheers
Matias

[Lax]

Hi,

thanks, that will help a lot!

Best Regards
Lax