janfic
commented
2 years ago Separate threads are possible but act oddly. A compromise has been made by limiting the amount of tiles processed per frame. This number will stay relatively low anyway, but limiting it after world gen prevents a large lag / pause in loading, but has the affect of "loading" visually to the player.
Moving throughout the world loads new new chunks. This makes visible lag sometimes depending on chunk size and amount.
Perhaps a seperate thread can be used to load chunks. Unsure if this is possible in an ECS engine environment. Look into it.