Hi,
I am making a racing game which uses a common base environment.
Each track is a persistent level, which always has the base environment as a sub-level.
Track A (persistent level)
→ Environment level (sub-level, flagged always loaded)
Track B (persistent level)
→ Environment level (sub-level, flagged always loaded)
etc.
All tracks follow this pattern:
This allows me to make changes to the environment without having to modify each track level (I have 80+ of them)
However when switching levels it unloads then reloads the environment sublevel. This feels slow and break the pace of the game, especially if the environment is large / big / texture heavy.
Is there any way to keep a sub-level loaded and/or active in memory (even when returning back to menu level) in such a way that switching to another level keeps (or reuses) the sublevel already loaded ?
If there is not, I guess that i will be forced to add my main menu in a racing persistent level, that contains the big environment sublevel, and load/unload race tracks sublevels. Or maybe my game instance could hold an instance of the sublevel ? But I did not manage to succeed in this direction ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯
thanks!
