Application.LoadLevel brings everything to a halt

Unity Engine
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1

I’d like to play a little waiting music during the loading of scenes (levels). But when Application.LoadLevel is called, the execution of all other things comes to a standstill. Music stops playing.

Is there a way around this?

2

Have you already tried

or

?

3

loadlevel fully finishes the current level and is replacing it with a new one, so its to be expected that it stops everything. I would be worried if it didn’t, especially on the iphone where graphics RAM and RAM are seriously restricted :slight_smile:

also the compressed music playback takes a serious amount of processing. without shutting it down, the performance will drop considerably on loading.

4

Really? I can run iTunes while editing my game and I don’t see a performance hit at all when loading level with itunes playing vs not (even while playing DRM’d music).

5

We are talking here on the iPhone board so the topic is clearly “on iphone” where you can not edit things :slight_smile:

Thought some kind of “onLoadProgress” callback + loadlevelprogress gathering possiblity would be great

6

ok thanks. Attached this script to the object with the music and it works.

function Awake () {
	DontDestroyOnLoad (this);
	Application.LoadLevel (1);
}
7

Don’t you just love Unity!