Loading large .glb files. I want to download the data, but wait to parse the file into the scene

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I have a game with 5 large (~12MB) .glb files. These are being loaded using AssetManager.addMeshTask. This works correctly.

After the file has been downloaded, Babylon parses them and the browser freezes. This isn’t unexpected for a large file, but the user only uses one of these at a time, and may not use more than one in a session.

Currently we’re loading all the files up front, but this is pretty slow. My solution is to load only the 1 required file up front, then start the game, then continue loading the other 4 files in the background. However, parsing the files causes the game to freeze. So I’d like to know if there’s a way to download the file data, but not parse the file into the Babylon scene, only doing that at a later time when the user chooses a new character.

Thanks for your help

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you can still download the data and then use createObjectUrl to give it when you want to the asset loader

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I’ve tried using SceneLoader.LoadAssetContainer because here it states that it “does not append them to the scene”. This doesn’t make a difference.

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Ah so I can use fetch or something to download the data, then pass the result of createObjectUrl to the asset loader?

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this is correct!

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Just to follow up on this for anyone else who might run into the same issue:

I fetch the .glb file, store the object URL for the blob, then when the player wants to access that mesh later on I use SceneLoader.ImportMesh, making sure to pass ".glb" as the pluginExtension.

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