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The Loading Screen

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A fundamental use case of the asset manager is in the LoadingScreen. With this tecnique you can load all assets within a directory while showing progress.

public class LoadingScreen extends SpaceFloatScreen {

    private static final String TEXTURE_DIRECTORY = "textures/";
    private AssetManager assetManager;
    private float progress;

    @Override
    public void show() {
        super.show();
        assetManager = getAssetManager();
        FileHandle[] files = Gdx.files.local(TEXTURE_DIRECTORY).list();
        for(FileHandle file : files) {
            assetManager.load(file.path(), Texture.class);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void render(float delta) {
        assetManager.update();
        progress = assetManager.getProgress();
        logger.info("Loading assets: " + progress);
        if (progress < 1.0f) return;
        SpaceFloat.GAME.setScreen(ScreenEnumerator.MAIN);
    }
}

I'm also glad to show you the new cargoship which you drive in SpaceFloat!