preloadCamera – Talk
This example is confusing to me. Why would you spawn with a waitUntil?? doolittle
spawn in this case has nothing to do with respawning. It merely means to start a new script, check the spawn command in the comref.
Edit: Unless I misunderstood your question, in which case.....sorry.
Planck 00:05, 22 May 2007 (CEST)
The example merely means to waituntil preloadcamera returns true. hoz
Right... but the waitUntil is pointless. That's all I mean. --Doolittle 01:23, 22 May 2007 (CEST)
- At best, Spawn is redundant. For waituntil to work, you need to already be in a 'spawned' (sleepable) script.
- Properly typechecked it would probably be a syntax error.
- At worst, it will run the preloadcommand after (if at all) it has proceeded with whatever code is below the waituntil.
- --MaHuJa 16:57, 28 June 2007 (CEST)
The example with waitUntil is bad.
waitUntil will execute the command until condition is true, in this case it will result in multiple preloadCamera commands being issued.
--Cleanrock 17:19, 28 June 2007 (CEST)
- yeah, fixed it. The command is it's own waitUntil. --Salisan 17:52, 28 June 2007 (CEST)
- Actually, it's correct. The command just works that strangely.. It'll check if everything at the position is ready each time it's executed and doesn't return true until it is. Must be insanely inefficient. --Salisan 18:00, 28 June 2007 (CEST)
ok, if it is a polling function which returns false or true immediately the waitUntil example is just fine
--Cleanrock 16:58, 29 June 2007 (CEST)
Difference between this and camPreloaded?
Does anyone know the difference between this command and the camPreloaded one? Aside from the obvious (input data types).
- Although not a technically correct definition... I'd imagine that the tasks involved in loading resources within the Engine for a new camera maybe an intensive process, so I'd imagine that preloadCamera is async. based. And, if this async. work was being done in a given scripting 'thread' the camPreloaded then provides a simple faciltiy to 'test' if complete from another given scripting 'thread'. Rather than having to pass about the boolean from the 'preloadCamera' command.
- 'preloadCamera' does the 'work' so to speak and 'camPreloaded' is a 'test' if the work has completed successfully or not... a little awkward, but still useful, imo.
- btw, s'all untested supposition on my part. -- Sy 13:59, 12 November 2008 (CET)