loading screen

Say your level has 200.000 triangles . Loading 20.000 of them would mean ur progress is at 10%.Say Your level has 200 textures. Loading 20 of them means your progress is 10% (as regards texture load). Now , this means that you have totally loaded 10% of both resources

ok thanks, so how bout if you want to take into account the size of the textures, and the size of the vertex buffer. cause I assume a vertex buffer of FVF_DIFFUSE|FVF_XYZ takes up much less space then a vertex buffer of FVF_DIFFUSE|FVF_XYZ|FVF_NORMAL|FVF_TEX1|FVF_TEX2 etc...

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[Triple Buffer V2.0] - Resource leak imminent. Memory status: Fragile

In reality, I think one would refer to the % loaded as a time indicator. The user doesn''t care how much data was done, but rather how much of what there is to do has been done (measured in time).

If you really want it to be accurate, run some tests with textures and some models and see what takes most of the loading time. Then have the texture loading be the first 30%, models the next 20%, and rest for sounds (or whatever).

This should give you a rather smooth percent increase while the game loads, which gives a good feeling of how much more loading is left.

Be sure to run accurate tests though (as close to what it will be like in the end).

P.S. I hate it when it takes twice as long to load the last 50% as it does the first.