Black screen during loading

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Hey,

If a game launched as a standalone or on a device (Android, IOS, Switch, etc.), it shows UE4 default splash and then It shows a black screen until game is loaded. Black screen is shown 3-10 second depending on the device. No problems with the game itself. As I understand UE4 makes some setup and the screen is black in this time. Is it possible to make some image to be shown instead of a black screen during this setup?

Update:
I would say that this question might be mostly about loading of unreal engine itself. According to the logs I see a lot of messages about configuring of multiple modules and plugins, setting up internal variables. The problem that I don’t know how to disable all these modules and plugins for my small 2d project to speed up bootstrapping. Is there any tutorial on unreal engine bootstrapping speed up?

BR,

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It sounds like the initial level is too heavy for the device. Maybe you could use level streaming and give them a loading screen to look at…

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Yeah, that’s right in the nitty-gritty. Do you have the event driven loader on?

Have you already made the package as small as possible?

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I would say that this question might be mostly about loading of unreal engine itself. According to the logs I see a lot of messages about configuring of multiple modules and plugins, setting up interanl variables. The problem that I don’t know how to disable all these modules and plugins for my small 2d project to speed up bootstrapping. Is there any tutorial on unreal engine bootstrapping speed up?

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I don’t know anything about event driven loader :wink: Currently all assets are loaded in place of usage, so I don’t think it’s the problem. Regarding the package size, I would say there is no anything unused in it, I inspected all assets and the every one is used.

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To show a desired screen during engine loading, it’s possible to define a module with LoadingPhase=PosSplashScreen and show a custom screen (derived form FPreLoadScreenBase) with a custom view. The view is created with Slate.