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Asked By | vonflyhighace2 |
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Old Version | Published before Godot 3 was released. |
Is there a way to load a lot of resources at Run-Time. Example if I have a bunch of images I wanted to load into an array/List off of the hard-disk. If not how would I go about doing so?
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Reply From: | Freeman |
You could use preloading.
The is a documentation and a simple example:
http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/step_by_step/resources.html?highlight=preload#loading-resources-from-code
That says (exact copy):
Loading resources from code is easy, there are two ways to do it. The first is to use load(), like this:
func _ready():
var res = load("res://robi.png") # resource is loaded when line is executed
get_node("sprite").set_texture(res)
The second way is more optimal, but only works with a string constant parameter, because it loads the resource at compile-time.
func _ready():
var res = preload("res://robi.png") # resource is loaded at compile time
get_node("sprite").set_texture(res)
Reading about the background loading might be helpful as well, if you plan to create progress bar for player to see the progress of loading the resources:
http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/engine/background_loading.html?highlight=preload
Thanks for the reply but not quite what I’m looking for. Maybe I should explain a bit more. I want to load an entire resource folder full of images into an array at run-time. What I want to know is there a way to do this all at once stead of one by one?
vonflyhighace2 | 2016-04-08 23:56
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Reply From: | eaglecat |
this is an very simple example of loading resources
var resources = Array()
func simpleLoad(var dirPath):
var dir = Directory.new()
dir.open(dirPath)
dir.list_dir_begin()
var file_name = dir.get_next()
while(file_name!=""):
if dir.current_is_dir():
pass
else:
resources.append(dirPath+"/"+file_name,file.READ)
file_name = dir.get_next()