Animated loading screen

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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I know that this have been asked many times before, but I haven’t seen any actual solutions, and thought that there might be someone out there who had found their own solution/hack?

Basicly this is what I would like to use as a loading background, or at least something like this ( please be gentle… animating is not my strong side :o )

It doesn’t have to be an actual animation, it could also be a looped video or somethng similar.
For now I just use a plane with a text that says “Loading”, but it would be nice to be able to see that something was happening, and that it wassent just stuck.

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Thanks for answering, but I was hoping to avoid using LibLoad, I can’t quite wrap my head around it.

I have been trying to make it work with a simple blend, but I must be doing something wrong:

import bge

def finished_cb(status):
    print("Library (%s) loaded in %.2fms." % (status.libraryName, status.timeTaken))
    loadingscene = bge.logic.getCurrentScene()
    loadingscene.replace("Scene")

bge.logic.LibLoad('//gameload_test.blend', 'Scene', load_actions=True, verbose=True, load_scripts=True, async=True).onFinish = finished_cb

It simply freeze when the scene is ready, and stays there for about as long as it takes to load the scene?

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After several hours of reading, it finally dawned on me, that the problem is the threading? if so, then you are absolutely right, it’s not simple :frowning:

On a positive note… I did learn a lot about Blender and Python while investigating, enough to know that I’ll have to set some time aside to get acquainted with threading in Python.