Monogame Content Importer

[nadako]

As anyone written a content importer and processor for monogame? Loading in the JSON takes too long.

[chong]

Hello,

You can consider using the FlatBuffer bytes file instead ( this is the binary representation of the Creature animated character):
https://github.com/kestrelm/Creature_Mo ... le.cs#L204

In the Unity version, users use this to speed up loading by quite a bit.

Thanks

[nadako]

or what would be the best way of creating one for creature?

[chong]

Please consider trying to load the FlatBuffers binary format first. When you export your Creature character for Game Engines, there will be a .bytes file in it. That is the flatbuffers representation of the character. The load times for loading the binary character should be faster.

[nadako]

Hello,

You can consider using the FlatBuffer bytes file instead ( this is the binary representation of the Creature animated character):
https://github.com/kestrelm/Creature_Mo ... le.cs#L204

In the Unity version, users use this to speed up loading by quite a bit.

Thanks

Doing that helped decrease my load time by half but its still not fast enough lol.

[chong]

Faster load times will require CreaturePack, might look into porting that over sometime.
CreaturePack is actually quite simple, you can consider porting it yourself to Monogame if you want:
https://github.com/kestrelm/Creature_Un ... eaturePack

Take a look here at the implementation:
https://github.com/kestrelm/Creature_Un ... ack/Distro

Also, there are things you can do to reduce your load times. Please look at your export options like Gap Step Compression and mesh resolution reduction.

Cheers