Black screen when trying to use textures [Solved]

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All my models render fine but every time I try to use texture I get black screen.
Not able to replicate that on playground but I will use example part of this simple playground code to explain the issue.

I believe texture should be loaded in an async manner and update material when ready, right?
However if I run code as per playground example I get the black screen and NO errors.

// code produces black screen - no errors
const url = 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Alaskan_Malamute%2BBlank.png'
const mat = new StandardMaterial('dog', scene)
const texture = new Texture(url, scene)
mat.diffuseTexture = texture

const box = MeshBuilder.CreateBox('box', { size: 40 }, scene)
box.material = mat

I tried to defer assigning textures wrapping them in setTimeout (as below) and then everything loads fine but that seems super hacky.

//  works fine but feels very hacky
const url = 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Alaskan_Malamute%2BBlank.png'
const mat = new StandardMaterial('dog', scene)
setTimeout(() => {
  const texture = new Texture(url, scene)
  mat.diffuseTexture = texture
})
const box = MeshBuilder.CreateBox('box', { size: 40 }, scene)
box.material = mat

Clearly I am missing something. I would appreciate any help / suggestions.

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Turns out it has nothing to do with BabylonJS framework. Found an error in bespoke babylon/react integration layer code. :flushed:

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In case anyone faces similar issue I can only suggest making sure engine.runRenderLoop(...) is actually being executed and scene.render() called. In my case problem was with initialisation method silently returning for !scene.isReady() thus preventing BabylonJS from rendering anything.