Initialisation/Preloading all Assets, incl. hidden

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2024-10-31 at 12:39 pm #78351

tomtm
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Hi,
what is the best way to pre load all assets? I know, there are some other posts,
but no of this code snippets did push everything in the memory before the app starts.

Usually I place everything in the camera view and make things all unhidden and hide again.
But this might be a little “old” school?
Is there a code which would force all shaders to be compiled and objects
be loaded in the memory before the app starts?

Greets Tom

2024-10-31 at 2:19 pm #78355
kdv
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tomtm wrote:

which would force all shaders to be compiled

all material shaders are already compiled on loading.

tomtm wrote:

and objects be loaded in the memory
```
app.scene.traverse(function(obj) {
  if (obj.isMesh) {
    if (obj.material.isMeshNodeMaterial) {
      for (let name in obj.material.nodeTextures) {
        app.renderer.initTexture(obj.material.nodeTextures[name]);
      }
    }
    app.renderer.updateGeometry(obj);
  }
});
```
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2024-10-31 at 9:40 pm #78381

tomtm
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Hi Kdv
Do you put this script in the very beginning of the puzzle?
I still have the situation, that some actions have some frame drops the first time they run.
After playing the animation the second time, it is fine.

2024-10-31 at 9:46 pm #78382

kdv
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without your files it’s hard to find out what is the best way to get rid of lags sometimes that code works fine, sometimes it’s not good enough.

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2024-11-01 at 2:43 am #78383

tomtm
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Hi
unfortunately due to a NDA I can‘t share the scene.
Maybe I have to many calls when I start an animation, but this wouldn‘t explain, why it‘s working after I called it
one time.

Thanks for the script and help!
Tom

2024-11-01 at 2:46 am #78384

kdv
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tomtm wrote:

I can‘t share the scene.

then you’re on your own

Puzzles and JS coding. Fast and expensive.

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2024-11-01 at 2:57 am #78385

c4cc
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tomtm wrote:

I can‘t share the scene.

Might I suggest distorting/messing up the mesh, changing the colors of materials/shaders/procedural effects, etc, to change its physical appearance WHILE RETAINING the original line/vertices count and shader/procedural effect methods the same? That way, the principles of the answer can be derived while anonymity retained.

2024-11-05 at 9:33 am #78448

tomtm
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I hope I can post a sample scene soon.
I am really curious how to make initialisation better, especially if you enter VR, there are likely more difficulties due to the nature of weaker hardware.
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