suggestion for Rice's Video Plugin - smart precaching of textures

[deekay]

I've just tried djipi Cell Zelda pack and was quite amazed at the work done. There is just two problems I have
1) It requires a decent spec PC above what standard n64 emulation requires.
2) It takes ages to load in the beginning and when you reload save games.

Is there not any way that some sort of smart precaching could be added to Rice's video plugin so that not all the textures are loaded in the beginning and when you reload.



I don't even know if this is possible, as I am not a programmer but maybe there could be some way for texture pack authors to manually define markers for which textures are loaded when.

[minkster]

That actually would be a very nice idea. I think it would be possible, but I don't know how hard it would be to do

[_sniper_]

I would think that there would be some hitching when loading textures in some places. Now that would be a problem, think of running down gannons tower while link looks like he is 56'king all over the place. I'd much rather have everything load in the beginning of the game like it is now.