My Hype presentation is nearly 9 Mb. Is there anyway to create a "loading" graphic or animation to show viewers it's coming?
jonathan
August 28, 2020, 10:43pm
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The simplest way is to check "Show loading indicator" in the Document Inspector.
Other than that, there are manual techniques here:
When you have ‘Show Loading indicator’ checked in the Document inspector, your visitors will see a notice when your document is loading. Below are a couple ways you can change this loading screen:
Show an image while your Tumult Hype document loads
This video by @darren_pearson is a good walkthrough of how to to this.
First of all, if your Tumult Hype document is loading slowly, this article gives tips on speeding it up. The quickest thing you can do is to open the Resource Library and uncheck…
Unfortunately there's not currently a way to make a good progress indicator without extreme effort.
Of course if possible I would advise trying to reduce resources and the initial load time if possible!
Tumult Hype is built for producing animations as a part of other websites, but we have also seen projects that take the form of entire websites. While building and launching large Tumult Hype projects with many scenes is possible, there are a few things you should keep in mind to ensure that your website loads quickly, works well on mobile devices, and is easy to maintain:
Thanks! That worked like a charm! I just didn't know about it and I was searching for "Loading" without getting any results. I'm still testing my file on other computers and may break it down into smaller bits if needed.
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jonathan
August 31, 2020, 5:53pm
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(specifically in regards to a progress bar, I mean there's no way to get % loading data out of Hype's runtime currently. So if you want to show accurate progress you'd need to take over the entire preloading flow yourself)
