(Newbie) Forcing PIXI.js Sprite to be generated from an already cached image, but not in the loader.

[hzjqn]

So, I'm working in a project where we are using PIXI.js only to build a complex background animation in a more performant way than DOM element animations. We already have a preload system that creates a img element and fetches the images from the server before showing this background, but when I give PIXI.js the paths for these images it seems to not check if they are already available and fetches them again. Is there any way to force PIXI.js to use the already cached images?

 

I'm really new to PIXI.js, I know the Loader is meant to be used to preload resources but as we already have a system in place I dont want to have two systems with the same responsibility.