Need: Scene Loading Delay

matrix211v1

Hello All!

I am using the "Scene Loading" options with these options checked:

Always reload scene when loading a save file?

Load scenes asynchronously

Use loading Screen?

Then I am calling the new scene with the Action:

Scene: Switch

Overlay current screen during switch?

The issue is, my loading screens have dialog on them that I want people to read, so I need to make the screen show a little longer. 

How can I put a delay of showing the actual loading screens for 5 to 10 seconds for example? 

Thanks!

ChrisIceBox

What's your version number?  If you have Load scenes asynchronously? and Use loading screen? checked, there should be a slider beneath labelled Delay before and after (s).

matrix211v1

Chris:

1.54c

I got the slider that does from 0 to 1. Should I put in .10 for ten seconds?

The way I was reading  "Delay before and after (s)" was the actual delay before and after the Loading Screen is called to Load. 

What I am after is that the Loading Scene itself to pause for 10 seconds, before it executes the new scene it was loading.

In this case, lets say I call Switch scene to load "Level 2". My "Loading Scene Name" is called "LoadingScene". Level 2 is quite small and can load in 2 seconds. I want, when the "LoadingScene" is displaying, to wait 10 seconds before "Level 2" is shown and executed.

I don't mind putting in timer to pause it, but I am not sure what to call when it's done. I was going to look at the progress bar example to get some ideas.

James

ChrisIceBox

The loading delay will be used while the loading screen is shown, but 0.10 will be for 0.10s, not 10s.

You could modify SettingsManager.cs (around line 1023) to allow for a higher maximum value, but an alternative would be to not rely on AC's loading screen and write your own a custom Action that loads a new scene based on the value of a global variable.  Essentially you'd set your Global Variable to be the build index of the next "proper" scene, switch to the loading screen directly, and then call AC's own scene-change function in that after an Engine: Wait:

AC.KickStarter.sceneChanger.PreloadScene