Advanced Loading Techniques

Whereas the basics of loading models and animations has already been touched upon in the Model Files and Animated Models sections, Panda’s asset loading system is very advanced, supporting loads from arbitrary sources, a virtual file system, and asynchronous (threaded) loading. This section describes some of the possibilities in more detail.

• Panda Filename Syntax
• Asynchronous Loading
  • Loading in a coroutine
  • Loading in a thread
  • On-demand texture loading
  • Animation loading
  • Configuration
• The Virtual File System
• Multifiles
  • The multify program
  • Read Assets
  • Multifile objects
  • Subfiles
  • Stream-Based
  • Encryption
• Loading Resources from Memory
• Patching