Can I play animation when Unity "freezes"?

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1

In my game, when I load another scene, I generate a map from tile at the same time, so unity freezes for some seconds. And I want a loading scene with an animation. But the animation also stops. Is there any ways for continuing the animation when the freez happens?

2

Not if the main thread is frozen. Can you pull the map generation into a job so it runs on a separate thread or change the code so it utilizes coroutines or async/await to keep the thread moving?

3

Thanks for the reply, sorry for being late! I don’t actually know how to do all the ting you said in your reply. Im not so familiar with unity and programming overall. Do you have a tutorial for it?

4

I remembering thinking this series is a decent introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kREqrc8lvwI

It might not be the solution if you’re not a programmer or are just starting. Are you using a third party asset for the map generation?

The corouting solution would be dependent on how your map is created but it might look something like this:

void Start() {
	StartCoroutine(CreateMap());
}

private IEnumerator CreateMap() {
	for (var i = 0; i < mapSize; i+=batchSize)
	{
		// generate batchSize amount of tiles
		for (var j = 0; j < batchSize; j++) {
			CreateTile(j);
		}

		// wait until next frame to generate some more tiles
		yield return null;
	}
}