Awesome info.
How exactly would you go about preloading materials/textures? From: hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam "amckern" McKern Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 9:10 PM To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Pre-Loading Maps The longest part about loading levels is all the assets that get rendered on top of the brush work. You could have a set texture set, and ensure that this texture set is loaded every time the game is loaded in an example, you could have say 2,000 brushes in your back ground menu map, and each brush has a texture from your asset list - this will help improve loading times - only down side of this could be your heap size would need to be bigger, and if people are joining the game from the server browser, they will bypass this background menu map. -------- Owner Nigredo Studios http://www.nigredostudios.com <http://www.nigredostudios.com/> _____ From: Asher Baker <asher...@gmail.com> To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming <hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Monday, 14 January 2013 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Pre-Loading Maps I think it'll still trash everything at the end of the current map. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Trevor Janok <tja...@comcast.net> wrote: > After looking, you can call “PrecacheModel” with a preload option. > > > > // Add to the server/client lookup/precache table, the specified > string is given a unique index > > // NOTE: The indices for PrecacheModel are 1 based > > // a 0 returned from those methods indicates the model or sound > was not correctly precached > > // However, generic and decal are 0 based > > // If preload is specified, the file is loaded into the > server/client's cache memory before level startup, otherwise > > // it'll only load when actually used (which can cause a disk i/o > hitch if it occurs during play of a level). > > virtual int PrecacheModel( const char *s, > bool preload = false ) = 0; > > virtual int PrecacheSentenceFile( const char > *s, bool preload = false ) = 0; > > virtual int PrecacheDecal( const char *name, > bool preload = false ) = 0; > > virtual int PrecacheGeneric( const char *s, > bool preload = false ) = 0; > > > > I can read the raw BSP and find all the models needed, and start precaching > them before the level transitions. > > I’ll have to see if it actually saves time when loading the new level. > > From: hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Pizza > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:45 PM > To: 'Discussion of Half-Life Programming' > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Pre-Loading Maps > > > > Interesting. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Trevor Janok > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 6:55 PM > To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: [hlcoders] Pre-Loading Maps > > > > Hello HLCoders. > > > > I have no idea how Source loads/renders the BSP levels. Since I assume most > (if not all) of this is done in the engine which we don’t have access to. > > But is there anyway to load a BSP into “memory” so the client can switch > maps faster? > > > > I mean, if you’re running on decent hardware Source maps load fast. But it > would be nice to start “preloading” maps when players near completion of the > current level. > > The gameplay of my mod would help greatly from this, as maps are broken up > into multiple levels running on a master server. > > > > I guess I can’t really assume what it’s “preloading” as I’m not sure of what > Source is doing when it’s switch to a different map. > > > > Anybody have any insight? Thanks. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
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