hiding preloaded meshes

[drarem]

Maybe it's my imagination, but when i place meshes below the map for purposes of having them preloaded to help reduce lag when they spawn, it seems to help the FPS (using PF11 to view fps) when I set them to Hidden. However, finding them when they're hidden in the editor is very difficult scrolling down a huge list of scene objects. How can they be referenced without doing that if I needed to update a script or value attached to that mesh?

 

Thanks.

[Rick]

Can you just make a folder for precached assets and put them in there?

[Josh]

When you say "spawn", do you mean your code is calling Model:Load()? Normally I would load whatever models you need at the start of the program.

[drarem]

Ok it's a prefab spawner, I read awhile back it might be beneficial to have the prefabs somewhere on the map for when they spawn which can create lag, and/or the initial start up lag. As Rick said, it's called precaching.

 

Prefab:Load("..")

 

Thanks.

[Josh]

Yeah, for sure. That way the engine will never be loading objects as the game is running.

 

I would load a copy of the prefab in the Start function, and then duplicate that over and over when you spawn additional ones. Make sure you are creating an instance, not a copy.

[drarem]

Thanks. Of course dragging them up the huge list to drop into the Filter will be a chore

[Josh]

You can just load whatever prefabs you want in code:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/prefab/prefabload-r622

[drarem]

If i load them in code in the Start() function, they dont do anything but sit out there? Thanks.

 

Nope.. it went right for my jugular.

[Rick]

If you mean some AI characters there must be some variables in the script to deactivate it that you might have to do.