Loading font on an unstable connection

[Danisimo]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to handle a very specific case. I have custom loader logic which handles the loss of internet connection and retries the loading of game resources a few times before giving up. This works great for most types of assets except BitMapFonts. The .fnt files that are used to load in the fonts reference the corresponding font .png files. The problem is if your connection drops while the font .png files are loading, the BitMapFont loader will still try to create a font with the unloaded texture and start throwing errors.

I thought I might be able to handle this by loading the images separately from the fnt files and just providing a loaded texture to the BitMapFont loader, when the fnt file loads. Could I get some advice on how to best approach this? Has anyone dealt with a similar issue?

 

[ivan.popelyshev]

Yes, its possible. You just have to specify name accordingly, because bitmapText loader has this part: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/blob/dev/packages/text-bitmap/src/BitmapFontLoader.ts#L70 . So, if a resource with appropriate name exists (debug, which one!) its taken.