Black startup screen

[Josh]

If you want to make the window background black before graphics start rendering, here is one possible way:

auto window = CreateWindow("Leadwerks", 0, 0, 1280, 720, displays[0], WINDOW_CENTER | WINDOW_TITLEBAR | WINDOW_HIDDEN);
auto ui = CreateInterface(window);
ui->background->SetColor(0,0,0);
window->SetHidden(false);
window->Activate();
ui = nullptr;

If you do this in Lua make sure you call collectgarbage() to delete the UI object.

[Yue]

I thought that with a 3D world it wouldn't be feasible because I would have to go through the process of creating the world and then creating the UI to give it that color. And it would always remain white. 

[Yue]

It doesn't work in Lua, the window is white. 
 

-- Objects
local window = CWindow:New()

ui = CreateInterface(window:Get())

ui.background:SetColor(0,0,0)

window:Get():SetHidden(false);
window:Get():Activate()
ui = nil

 

[Josh]

32 minutes ago, Yue said:

It doesn't work in Lua, the window is white. 
 

-- Objects
local window = CWindow:New()

ui = CreateInterface(window:Get())

ui.background:SetColor(0,0,0)

window:Get():SetHidden(false);
window:Get():Activate()
ui = nil

 

You window probably isn't hidden to start with.

[reepblue]

I just render a splash screen with a logo on it until the start render event fires. Sometimes there is a millisecond of white but it's nothing to lose sleep over.