Edit of asset "Chunk Loader" Accepted

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Title	Chunk Loader	Chunk Loader
Description	To support large game worlds without sacrificing performance, I developed a chunk loading system for my game and I want to share that technology with you. As the player moves through the world, the system continuously determines which chunks should exist based on a configurable loading radius. The chunk loader supports dynamic streaming of TileMapLayer tile data. When a chunk enters the active range, its tile data is loaded into the appropriate TileMapLayers. When a chunk leaves the active range, its tiles are removed from memory. This allows the game to render only the terrain surrounding the player instead of loading the entire world at once. The result is significantly lower memory usage and improved performance, even with large open worlds In addition to terrain streaming, the system supports loading and unloading scenes as resources. Each chunk contains references to scene resources representing world objects. When a chunk becomes active, the associated scene resources are instantiated and added to the world. When the chunk is unloaded, those instances are automatically removed. Because objects are stored as resource references rather than permanently existing in the scene tree, thousands of potential world objects can be managed while only a small subset remains active at any given time.	To support large game worlds without sacrificing performance, I developed a chunk loading system for my game and I want to share that technology with you. As the player moves through the world, the system continuously determines which chunks should exist based on a configurable loading radius. The chunk loader supports dynamic streaming of TileMapLayer tile data. When a chunk enters the active range, its tile data is loaded into the appropriate TileMapLayers. When a chunk leaves the active range, its tiles are removed from memory. This allows the game to render only the terrain surrounding the player instead of loading the entire world at once. The result is significantly lower memory usage and improved performance, even with large open worlds In addition to terrain streaming, the system supports loading and unloading scenes as resources. Each chunk contains references to scene resources representing world objects. When a chunk becomes active, the associated scene resources are instantiated and added to the world. When the chunk is unloaded, those instances are automatically removed. Because objects are stored as resource references rather than permanently existing in the scene tree, thousands of potential world objects can be managed while only a small subset remains active at any given time.
Category	2D Tools	2D Tools
License	MIT	MIT
Repository Provider	GitHub	GitHub
Repository Url	https://github.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader	https://github.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader
Issues Url	https://github.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader/issues	https://github.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader/issues
Godot version	Godot 4.6	Godot 4.6
Version String	1.0.0	1.0.0
Download Commit	cd871ed5b91ecf5081a8a2eb52a323b2e70ac61d	cd871ed5b91ecf5081a8a2eb52a323b2e70ac61d
Download Url (Computed)	https://github.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader/archive/cd871ed5b91ecf5081a8a2eb52a323b2e70ac61d.zip	https://github.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader/archive/cd871ed5b91ecf5081a8a2eb52a323b2e70ac61d.zip
Icon Url	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader/refs/heads/main/icon.png	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LittleFernStudio/Chunk-Loader/refs/heads/main/icon.png

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