Dynamically loading scenes during the main game loop?

Phaser 3
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I’m teasing out some ideas for “action” moments in a RPG style situation; I have my main “game” scene, but I was thinking that when an event fires, the game scene is paused, another scene is loaded alongside the current game scene - like a popup window - run some automated action (so think like a character casting a spell or something and getting the result), then that dynamic scene is destroyed & the main game scene resumed.

I can see in the examples page you can define multiple scenes in the config:

var config = {
    type: Phaser.WEBGL,
    ...
    scene: [ Background, Demo ]
};

But I’d prefer to do this dynamically, loading sub-scenes when the game needs them, rather than have them always active. That feels more efficient use of assets anyway.

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Scenes can be added without being started (activated), and by default, when you use scene: [ a, b … ] only the first scene is started.

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Are you sure? I’m fairly sure all scenes loaded in the array are activated. I recall just adding two samples and both animated as expected.

Anyway, thinking more of dynamic locating within a scene, rather than always having one in the background, deactivated til needed. Unless that’s more performant than my suggestion?

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It’s like this one: scenes/launch parallel scene.

Your idea is still good, though. You would avoid the work of initializing the scene unnecessarily. It’s done in scenes/add scene from another scene.

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