Increase Loading Times?
Right so on some scenes of some of my games, they load debatably ridiculously slow. some major scene changes such as main menu to game take 4-5 seconds, which seems obsurd.
i heard something about making all of your actors have no image, unticking preload art and making a rule to immediately change image to its appropriate image. does this really work? and if so do i do this for EVERY single actor in my game.
and are they any other procedures i can do to increase loading times?
i heard something about making all of your actors have no image, unticking preload art and making a rule to immediately change image to its appropriate image. does this really work? and if so do i do this for EVERY single actor in my game.
and are they any other procedures i can do to increase loading times?
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e.g. 10+ frames or 20+ FPS
i went through one of my games and deleted every single actor's image and then created a rule to change image to its appropriate image, i also unticked preload art on everything.
i have next NO change in loading times, if there was one, it wasnt noticable.
how do you guys do it? when changing scenes on some particular parts of my game the loading time can be pretty long, i need them down to 1-2 seconds.
The deletion of the actors image and changing the image is irrelevant now we have preload. Preload is doing just that, so adding the change image is just adding to the problem by adding unnecessary code.
Could it be the timer bug that is making the game seem like it's taking longer to load or are you getting the spinning wheel for 5 seconds?
Ace
Lot's of rules and constraints and whatnot will add to that load time as well. There's really only so much you can do, it's going to have some kind of load time regardless of how much you optimize it.
quite a few of my mates have complained "why is it so slow?" or "what isnt anything happening" and i have to reply, its loading >.<, it would be more bearable if the loading icon was ALOT more noticeable, people click a button, nothing happens, click it again and again and not seem to notice the spinning wheel in the corner.
really puzzled what to do. yeah but this is to load a particular scene not the entire game. for example in one of my games if they click the wrong answer it goes to a game over scene, this scene barely contains anything really, yet takes maybes 2-3 seconds to load. so they click the wrong answer, get this awkward ugly looking pause, then it loads to say it was wrong. really want this to be a maximum of 1 second.
Has the problem only started since the latest update?
Ace
nah its been there since the start really. my games dont seem too excessive on rules and that, im not sure if its just me it just seems amateurish with the long loading times. playing other people's apps it all seems so smooth you know? then i go on mine and get these pauses...
I've never used it, but this should help.
Ace