[Community ask] AssetsManager

[GameMonetize]

Hey team!!

 

I've just published new beta for 1.14 with AssetsManager inside. I would love to get your feedbacks in order to update it if required.

More info here: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/wiki/Using-AssetsManager

 

The AssetsManager comes with LoadingScreen feature that you can see now live on www.babylonjs.com when you load main scenes.

 

Feedbacks welcome as well

[Dad72]

I will soon test to replace what I had done on the editor of terrain of CastorEngine . Thanks for this interesting feature.

 

I have an idea for improvement that would be to change the loading icon and the text if you want to put it in french or other for example.

[GameMonetize]

You have control over the text by calling engine.loadingUIText = "bla!"

[Dad72]

Not work

engine.loadingUIText = "blabla";

Ok

engine.loadingUiText = "blabla";

 

Otherwise this loadingUI is pleasant with the fade effect. 

[Dad72]

Here are the improvements that I propose for loadingUi:

• - be able to edit the image to loading.
  
• - being able to changed the color of the black background and might be able to put a picture (but change the color already would be good).
  

I have not yet managed to adapt AssetsManager to my project which uses a loading of the scene pretty special and that is somehow also an AssetsManager. But LoadingUI adds a real more my scene loading system.

 

Thanks

[GameMonetize]

loadingUIText fixed:)

 

I will also add a loadingUIbackgroundColor for you

[Dad72]

Thanks DK.

It of Ui or UI because you with written loadingUI and what works is loadingUi (the i is lowercase) and in the wiki you with written loadingUi (i lowercase) to change the text and loadingUI (i uppercase) to change the color.

 

I guess that all should be capitalized (UI and not Ui) ?

 

And engine.loadingUIBackgroundColor does not work. but may be that you have not yet been updated on GitHub

[gryff]

@DK. Played with the lastest version of Babylon.js this morning. Like the loading feature - saves me having to thrash around trying to create some kind of loading feature

 

cheers, gryff

[GameMonetize]

It will be UI (all capitalized) but I didn't update the github right now (still working on another feature )

[Dad72]

then there is a small error in the wiki: 
 

Loading text is controlled using engine.loadingUiText = "text"

 

 

The 'i' of UI is lowercase 

[GameMonetize]

you saved me

[joshcamas]

Question: When assetmanager loads a .babylon file, how does it load the textures attached to it?

Here's a demo: http://steinhauer.x10.mx/camera

As you can probably see, the assets loader seems to load the meshes, then begins the game. (I know the meshes themselves are loaded because the invisible character collides with it) Then after a while the images are loaded.

How can this be fixed?

 

Thanks!

[GameMonetize]

are you using the very latest version of 1.14 (This should work)?

[joshcamas]

One cool feature could be to attach variables to tasks. I had to do it the hacky way:

this.assetsManager._tasks[this.assetsManager._tasks.length-1].h = h;

[GameMonetize]

you can just do this:

var task = this.assetsManager.CreateBinaryFileTask(...);

 

task.h = h;

[joshcamas]

oh. xD

[joshcamas]

K So I've seen this way to load a image for a mesh:

materialSphere1.diffuseTexture = new BABYLON.Texture("grass.png", scene);

So... what if you have an already loaded image in the assetsmanager? How does one use a pre-loaded image? 

 

Also, there seems to be a strange glitch when you set "assetsManager.useDefaultloader = false".

Try this. Set up a loader that does not have the default loader. Then, while it's loading, leave the tab. Wait for everything to load, and switch back. The default loader is stuck, and visible! Sometimes it's not visible, but overlays the canvas, so no mouse inputs.

[GameMonetize]

could you share a repro case somewhere? (like in the playground)

 

Thank you!

 

For the texture, I'll add a loadTexture task as well in next version

[gryff]

Am I correct in thinking it does not load lights and cameras?

 

cheers, gryff

[GameMonetize]

right, assets loader just load meshes 

[joshcamas]

Ok, I figured out the problem!

 

I think you must have updated it now, but I'm pretty sure github said to hide the loading screen the variable was "useDefaultLoader". Now it seems to be "useDefaultLoadingScreen"

 

So that was my problem.

 

Also, thanks for the loadTexture! On a separate note, could it be possible to have a "chicken.material.diffuse = textureFromImage("",etc,etc)", or something like that? Thanks!

[GameMonetize]

I do not get your point

 

What do mean by textureFromImage? what's the difference with new BABYLON.Texture("",etc,etc) ?

[joshcamas]

Sorry for being confusing...

 

I meant for this question being separate from AssetsManager:

 

A cool feature would be to load a texture from an Image variable, not just a URL.

[GameMonetize]

oh gotcha:)