A question about loading

Apart from the fact that you may not process GL calls in different threads, it''s fine. Though, unless the data to load is VERY big I would rather recommend a loading screen and wait in the beginning for a few seconds. Multithreading introduces lots of state sync hassle which I do not recommend when you can do without.

make sure your loading thread runs on low priority.

The problem is my demo, as it looks so far, will have to load lots of stuff and with a loading screen it means eatting up a lot of memory. So, i was considering loading it a bit at a time between scenes, but that would mess up the link to the music. So i think i''ll try multithreading. Hopefully you guys wont mind large demos...do you?

There''s also another problem with dynamic loading : you''re never sure that the data is ready when you need it. It loading takes too much time, what will you do ? please wait while loading ? dismiss the scene ? see half or the scene ? crash ?!
when data is loaded at start, you know that data is always ready at the second the loading screen ended.

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Hopefully you guys wont mind large demos...do you?

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I don''t mind but maybe NeHe does. You should ask him since he''s the one who rules the rules.

Maybe Jeff should put a 512 Kb limit for that contest so you don''t have problems loading huge files ;*)

That would make the data file copyright problem irrelevant as well...