LoadScreenPro
Loading screens from Project Settings

Overview

LoadScreenPro gives your game a complete loading screen without any Blueprint or C++ work. It drives the engine's built-in movie player, which renders on its own thread while the game thread is blocked loading a map, so icons, tips and movies keep playing during the load. Everything is configured in Project Settings > Game > LoadScreenPro.

• Two screens: a startup screen shown when the game launches (studio logo movies) and a default screen shown on every level transition.
• Movies from Content/Movies, with shuffle, playback type, skippable and minimum display time options.
• Background images picked at random, rotated on a timer or chosen by index from Blueprint, with stretch mode, padding and background colour.
• Tips picked at random, rotated on a timer or chosen by index, with full text appearance settings and wrapping.
• Loading icon: Throbber, Circular Throbber or an animated image sequence, next to or above/below a loading text.
• Five layouts: Classic, Center, Letterbox, Sidebar and Dual Sidebar, each with its own alignment, padding, offsets and border brushes.
• Loading complete text with a fade animation, so the player presses a key to continue.
• PSO precache wait: keep the screen up until shader pipeline precompilation is done, with a timeout and an optional progress bar.
• Blueprint control of the next loading screen: choose the background, tip or movie, disable the screen, or stop it manually.
• 75 sample textures to build a screen in minutes.

Requirements

Installation

1. Copy the LoadScreenPro folder into your project's Plugins/ folder (create it if needed), or install the plugin to the engine from Fab.
2. Open the project. For a C++ project, let the editor build the module or build it from your IDE.
3. Enable LoadScreenPro in Edit > Plugins (category User Interface) and restart the editor.
4. Disable any other plugin that also sets up a movie-player loading screen; only one system can own the movie player.
5. C++ only: add "LoadScreenPro" to PublicDependencyModuleNames in your module's Build.cs to call the library or read the settings from code.

Quick start

Blueprint / no-code setup

1. Open Project Settings > Game > LoadScreenPro > General > Default Loading Screen.
2. Keep bShowWidgetOverlay enabled (shown as Show Widget Overlay).
3. Under Background > Images add one or more textures.
4. Under Tip Widget > Tip Text add a few tips.
5. Under Loading Widget pick a LoadingIconType. For Image Sequence, add the frames of /LoadScreenPro/Default/StickFigure/RunImages to Image Sequence Settings > Images in order.
6. Pick a Layout (Classic by default).
7. Launch with Play > Standalone Game (or a packaged build) and open another level with Open Level. The loading screen is shown while the level loads.

To choose what the next loading screen shows, call Set Display Background Index, Set Display Tip Text Index or Set Display Movie Index before Open Level, and enable the matching manual option in the settings. Call Set Enable Loading Screen with false to skip the screen for a transition.

C++

#include "LoadScreenProLibrary.h"
#include "LoadingScreenSettings.h"
#include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"

void AMyGameMode::TravelToArena()
{
    // Requires bSetDisplayBackgroundManually / bSetDisplayTipTextManually in the Default Loading Screen settings.
    ULoadScreenProLibrary::SetDisplayBackgroundIndex(2);
    ULoadScreenProLibrary::SetDisplayTipTextIndex(0);

    // Show the loading screen for this transition (true is the default).
    ULoadScreenProLibrary::SetEnableLoadingScreen(true);

    UGameplayStatics::OpenLevel(this, TEXT("Arena"));
}

int32 AMyGameMode::GetNumberOfTips() const
{
    const ULoadingScreenSettings* Settings = GetDefault<ULoadingScreenSettings>();
    return Settings->DefaultLoadingScreen.TipWidget.TipText.Num();
}

How it works

• The module loads in the PreLoadingScreen phase and immediately sets up the Startup Loading Screen with the engine movie player.
• Every time the engine prepares a loading screen for a map load, the Default Loading Screen is set up, unless it was disabled with Set Enable Loading Screen.
• Seamless travel does not open a movie-player loading screen; use a transition map or a regular map load if you need the screen there.
• When bWaitForPSOPrecachingToComplete is enabled, the plugin keeps the movie player waiting after the level has loaded, polls the number of outstanding pipeline precompiles and stops the screen when it reaches zero, when PSOPrecacheMaxWaitTime expires, and only after MinimumLoadingScreenDisplayTime. The priority boost (bBoostPSOPrecachePriority) requires UE 5.8; on UE 4.27 the wait uses the bundled PSO cache count only.

Blueprint nodes

All nodes are static functions of ULoadScreenProLibrary, category LoadScreenPro.

C++ API

Settings

Location: Project Settings > Game > LoadScreenPro. Values are stored in Config/DefaultGame.ini under [/Script/LoadScreenPro.LoadingScreenSettings]. The editor shows each property name split into words (boolean names without the leading b).

Loading screen profile (Startup / Default Loading Screen)

Background

Tip Widget

Loading Widget

Loading Complete Text

PSO Precache Progress Widget

Text appearance and alignment

Layout settings

Classic

A border with the loading widget and the tip, anchored to the bottom or top of the screen.

Center

The loading widget in the middle of the screen; the tip in a border at the bottom or top.

Letterbox

Two borders at the top and bottom; the loading widget in one, the tip in the other.

Sidebar

One vertical border on the left or right, suited to long tips and story text.

Dual Sidebar

Two vertical borders; the loading widget on one side, the tip on the other.

Content

Sample textures under /LoadScreenPro/Default (in the Content Browser, open the LoadScreenPro plugin content folder; enable Show Plugin Content in the view options if it is hidden). Use them directly or as a template for your own art.

Packaging

• The module loads before textures are found through normal references. Add the folders that hold your loading-screen textures to Project Settings > Packaging > Additional Asset Directories to Cook (for example /Game/LoadingScreen, or /LoadScreenPro/Default for the samples).
• Movies are read as loose files: add Movies to Additional Non-Asset Directories To Copy so they are not packed into the .pak file.
• For loading-screen textures, set Texture Group to UI and Compression Settings to UserInterface2D.

Troubleshooting

Credits

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