Unable to preload spritesheets animation with PIXI.Prepare.

[KreNtal]

I'm working on a slot machine and I created some symbol animations in a spritesheet with texture packer.

When the slot is spinning I need to instantiate the AnimatedSprite on the fly because only the latest symbols will be animated while the rest are just normal sprites. Everything is working as expected, the only problem is that on the first 3-4 spins the slot is lagging at the end, when the AnimatedSprite are instantiated all together. After that I guess they're all loaded into gpu memory and everything is going smoothly.

I tried to preloading them with PIXI.Prepare plugin but it does not work as expected. Maybe my syntax is wrong, I don't know.

Can someone point me in the right direction? How can i preload them in the GPU memory if they're not present in the app.stage at start?

[Alexander Kolosov]

Maybe you should try creating an instance of PIXI.AnimatedSprite in advance? something like a pool.Do you load spritesheet in advance? or when is it necessary? can you show me a code snippet?

[KreNtal]

Thanks for answering.

Actually I had some improvements loading an AnimatedSprite with just one single texture and then swapping it at the end with the real animation, but still I experience some lag on first 2-3 spins.

Loading AnimatedSprite with a single texture:

const element = [SlotManager.getInstance().reelsMatrix[i][this.reels[i].currentIndex].blurredTexture];
               symbolSprite = new AnimatedSprite(element);

Swapping it at the end:

symbol.textures = SlotManager.getInstance().reelsMatrix[index][length + j].animation;

Sorry, I cannot publish to much of the code.

[Alexander Kolosov]

Sorry for delay.
Hmm, its seems good. Have you tried to build something test without extra logic? just running the animation in the spins without any logic.
AnimatedSprite should not be too heavy.

[KreNtal]

Not really. I will and let you know. However I got big improvements with the method mentioned before.

Still thinking that preparing it before could help but I had no luck on making it works.