Asset loading

[twin lagoon]

I am creating a minecraft clone and I am wondering if I should load a texture every time a block is placed or if I should save the handle as a resource somewhere. I am thinking I should create a handleID hashmap and load in all assets upon startup. Is this a common pattern?

[scenic cape]

Probably the most common pattern. If minecraft loaded every Block every time, the performance would probably be pretty lower. I don't have this started yet so I don't know what is the exactly most used pattern, but would probably avoid loading it every time : )

[wintry tree]

For a voxel game you probably just want to load one big tile-map once when the game starts.

[glacial parcel]

^ this is what minecraft does. You can sometimes see this whole texture on blocks when loading a broken shader

[twin lagoon]

Do you have any examples I can have a look?

I’m struggling quite a bit with making this tbh

I made this originally with the intention of just a proof of concept that I can do it in rust

So I have an array of blocks that stores all the data

Like red stone signal and stuff

Then I want a gui for it

So I looked at bevy and gave it a shot

But it’s actually really hard to integrate with the existing code

[wintry tree]

I don’t have a tilemap example, but I believe there is a tile map crate floating around somewhere.