solved Preloading Help

[DylanD]

Hey everyone,

    I am trying to use assetManager to preload as much as I can.  I already have it preloading all of my sounds.  However when trying to preload gui elements (specifically gui images) i get stuck.  I can use addImageTask to get a HTMLImageElement, however i dont know how to make that into a gui element.

 

Any ideas?  

[Guest]

hey!

here is how you can do it: https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XCPP9Y#718

[DylanD]

26 minutes ago, Deltakosh said:

hey!

here is how you can do it: https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XCPP9Y#718

Thanks DK that works great!!  

Just for future reference (as im sure i will forget sooner or later) here is how i ended up doing it with assetsManager

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XCPP9Y#719

Thanks again!

[Guest]

Flagging as solved!

[DylanD]

Hey another question about preloading.

What should i use to preload shaders?

https://doc.babylonjs.com/how_to/how_to_use_assetsmanager#meshassettask

The doc doesnt seem to go over it.  

[Guest]

your shaders? or the stock shaders?

[DylanD]

On 11/16/2018 at 5:38 PM, Deltakosh said:

your shaders? or the stock shaders?

my shaders  

[Sebavan]

You could probably rely on TextFileAssetTask and once the task is done fill the ShaderStore with your custom shaders ?

[DylanD]

45 minutes ago, Sebavan said:

You could probably rely on TextFileAssetTask and once the task is done fill the ShaderStore with your custom shaders ?

hmm, im not sure i understand what you mean.  To clarify(as i am a novice and want to make sure we are on the same page), i have shaders saved as shaderName.vertex.fx and shaderName.fragment.fx, i want to load them with other preloaded assets, just to make the game a bit smoother on initial load in.  I plan on saving them to a global object/global variable in my project.  

How i have the shaders implemented already is (with having the shaders save like above) i use

 

new BABYLON.ShaderMaterial("",scene, shaderPath, {attributes:[], uniforms:[]});

 

That works great, however i dont use shader store.

 

So what you are saying is i could use textFileAsset task then use that as the fragment and vertex files or use that text to write to shaderstore?

 

Im not sure i would do that as it seems somewhat complicated for little gain (i have 4 shaders so loaded files)

[Sebavan]

If you only have 4 it might even be easier to make them as part of your script so you do not have download time again before your game starts ?