Re: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library

[Jorrit T. <Jor...@uz...>]

Ivan-Assen Ivanov wrote:

> I second Gareth here. 16-20 seconds is NOT adequate level load time on
>
>a reasonably modern PC. You shouldn't ever do load-time anything that 
>can do level-export-time. This doesn't contradict with nice OO design, and 
>if you feel like "duplicating" code if you shift parsing and preprocessing to the
>tools, maybe you should use the more politically correct word "reuse".
>  
>
These are REALLY big levels we are talking about here. i.e. 100000 
polygons (each
with lightmap data) and then about 50000 triangle meshes (seperate from 
that). Most modern
games that I know don't try to load that many game data at once (most 
use dynamic
loading to load what they need later).

Greetings,