Fast Load

Update 1.0.2

Fix an intermittent crash at game start with SideLoader installed. Building SideLoader's XML serializers on worker threads generates code at runtime, which the game's Mono runtime does not reliably survive away from the main thread. That background build is removed: SideLoader builds its serializers itself, as in vanilla. Game start is a few seconds slower than with 1.0.1; area loads, the texture cache and asynchronous asset bundles are unchanged.

Update 1.0.1

Fix a defeat loop: after a defeat that respawns the player in the same area (an inn, a dungeon entrance...), the player could come back dead and be defeated again, over and over. A pending defeat scenario finishes its set-up one second into the load, and a fast load could end before that. Fast Load now waits for it - only when a defeat is under way, so normal loads are unchanged.

Update 1.0.0

Initial version. Removes the level loader's fixed delays (keeping a wait for the ground under the players right after they are placed), raises Unity's loading priority while the loading screen is up, skips the redundant second memory cleanup, and moves SideLoader's start-up work (texture decoding, XML serializers, asset bundles) off the main thread, with a texture cache for later starts.