Loading screen

Adds a loading screen similar to the one from the Original Xbox version of the game.

The loading screen also helps to prevent the game from freezing or timing out on multiplayer games when loading maps with a lot of tags or when plugins perform heavy operations during the loading process. Is recommended to keep this feature enabled.

Thanks to @SnowyMouse for the shader that was used to create the loading screen effect.

Demo video of the loading screen.

Commands

enable_loading_screen

Syntax: balltze_enable_loading_screen <setting: boolean>

Set whether to set up loading screen at startup.

test_loading_screen

Syntax: balltze_test_loading_screen

Plays loading screen demo.

Configuration

The loading screen can be configured by editing the field loading_screen in the settings.json in the My Games\Halo CE\balltze folder. The available options are:

• enabled: boolean - If the loading screen is enabled or not. Default is true.

Example of config file

My Games\Halo CE\balltze\config\settings.json

{
    "loading_screen": {
        "enabled": true
    }
}