[REQUEST] Loading Bar

A loading bar would be nice, I noticed there is no bar or any thing that shows the status of your connection to a server. Could you guys put one in, because without it, its hard to tell if my game froze or not since sometimes it does.

not a bad suggestion....T2 had a progress bar for map loading ...not sure bout T1

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Not that loading bars are ever accurate. They tend to move very slowly for awhile and then suddenly race across to done.

But at least you can tell if the game is doing something.
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it doesn't have to be loading bars, but just a way to show activitiy.
a percentage number, a process name(loading textures,lightmaps, etc..)
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Good idea... the maps do load fast though.

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Wow I didn't think that many people would agree with me. Do you guys think there is any chance of this happening?

make a [BUG] thread, then IrritAnt will read it and there might be a chance or he might ban ur ass, otherwise they don't seem to read feedback. :(

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Someone want to bring this to the devs attention? Should I make a new thread and link to this, thats probably a bad idea though.

....yes that would be a very bad idea worst...

but the loading bar.. good idea

Yeah let's all make a new thread linking to a new thread with an already very clear title.

Good news. Was looking through my bin.vol (a file I made by changing all the .u files in my program\bin directory to .cs files and voling them with visualVT), and found this code:


BarColor=(R=255,G=203,B=0 ,A=255)
BarRenderStyle=MSTY_Alpha
Value=0.0
BarDirection=DIRECTION_Le ftToRight
StyleName="STY_ProgressBar"
BarMaterial=Material'GUIT ribes.BorderBasic'
!..\GUI\Classes\GUIProgre ssBar.uc

class GUIProgressBar extends GUIComponent
HideCategories(Menu,Objec t)
Native;

// (cpptext)
// (cpptext)
// (cpptext)
// (cpptext)

enum eProgressDirection
{
DIRECTION_LeftToRight,
DIRECTION_RightToLeft,
DIRECTION_TopToBottom,
DIRECTION_BottomToTop,
};

var(GUIProgressBar) config Material BarMaterial "The material of the filled portion of the bar";
var(GUIProgressBar) config Color BarColor "The Color of the filled portion of the bar";
var(GUIProgressBar) config EMenuRenderStyle BarRenderStyle "How should we display this image";
var(GUIProgressBar) config float Value "The current percent filled value (clamped 0-1)";
var(GUIProgressBar) config eProgressDirection BarDirection "The direction to fill the bar";

var Canvas progressCanvas;

function InitComponent(GUIComponen t MyOwner)
{
Super.InitComponent(MyOwn er);
StartServerButton.OnClick =OnStartServerClick;
AdvancedButton.OnClick=On AdvancedClick;
MapListBox.List.OnChange= MapListOnChange;
GameTypeListBox.List.OnCh ange=GameTypeListOnChange ;
progressBar.OnDraw=Progre ssOnDraw;

ServerNameBox.SetText(cla ss'GameReplicationInfo'.d efault.ServerName);
}

function bool ProgressOnDraw(Canvas C)
{
progressCanvas = C;
return true;
}

function LoadLevelSummaries(out array<String> levelFileList, out array<LevelSummary> levelSummaryList )
{
local LevelSummary L;
local int i, numLevelsToLoad;

local string FirstMap, NextMap, TestMap, LoadMap;

FirstMap = PlayerOwner().GetMapName("MP-", "", 0);
NextMap = FirstMap;


while (!(FirstMap ~= TestMap))
{
numLevelsToLoad++;

if(Right(NextMap, 4) ~= ".tvm")
LoadMap = Left(NextMap, Len(NextMap) - 4);
else
LoadMap = NextMap;


NextMap = PlayerOwner().GetMapName("MP-", NextMap, 1);
TestMap = NextMap;

if (LoadMap != "")
levelFileList[levelFileList.Length] = LoadMap;
}




for (i=0; i<levelFileList.Length; i++)
{
L = Controller.LoadLevelSumma ry(levelFileList[i]$".LevelSummary");




progressBar.Value = i+1;


if (L == None)
{
Log("The map named "$levelFileList[i]$" doesn't have a LevelSummary!");
continue;
}

levelSummaryList[levelSummaryList.Length] = L;
}
}

function LoadLevelSummaries(out array<String> levelFileList, out array<LevelSummary> levelSummaryList )
{
local LevelSummary L;
local int i, numLevelsToLoad;

local string FirstMap, NextMap, TestMap, LoadMap;

FirstMap = PlayerOwner().GetMapName("MP-", "", 0);
NextMap = FirstMap;

// Count number of maps first
while (!(FirstMap ~= TestMap))
{
numLevelsToLoad++;

if(Right(NextMap, 4) ~= ".tvm")
LoadMap = Left(NextMap, Len(NextMap) - 4);
else
LoadMap = NextMap;

//Log("LOADBOX: Adding "$LoadMap);
NextMap = PlayerOwner().GetMapName("MP-", NextMap, 1);
TestMap = NextMap;

if (LoadMap != "")
levelFileList[levelFileList.Length] = LoadMap;
}

//GUIFIX progressBar.High = numLevelsToLoad ;

// Now load the actual LevelSummaries (potentially slow)
for (i=0; i<levelFileList.Length; i++)
{
L = Controller.LoadLevelSumma ry(levelFileList[i]$".LevelSummary");
// Old method
//L = LevelSummary(DynamicLoadO bject(levelFileList[i]$".LevelSummary", class'LevelSummary'));

// Update progress bar
progressBar.Value = i+1;
//progressBar.UpdateCompone nt(progressCanvas);

if (L == None)
{
Log("The map named "$levelFileList[i]$" doesn't have a LevelSummary!");
continue;
}

levelSummaryList[levelSummaryList.Length] = L;
}
}



Looks like we get a loading bar for the maps :)

I'd say yes, but they won't listen anyway...

:signed:, since I can't poke my comp with a stick to see if it's still alive.