Create a dummy panel as a loading screen that is the full size of the screen. That way the user cant see the loading happening behind the panel. That what you mean?
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and then call this in the loading function (the one placing the trees) when done loading: loading = 0; you may have to exchange the vector(screen_size.x,screen_size.y,0) and the NULL parameter after it, if it doesn't work. I don't remember if it was the scale or the size that needs to be set. check out the draw_quad function in the manual.
Last edited by Germanunkol; 04/02/0919:39.
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