Avatar preloading

Load an avatar in runtime memory.

Avatar Preloading

The Ready Player Me SDK provides an experimental avatar preloading functionality. Preloading functionality allows the loading of the avatars in the background. The main use case for it is to load the avatars while in the main menu or loading screen and instantiate them immediately when entering the game.

Avatar preloading functionality can also be used along with the Avatar Caching

Avatar preloading is available at runtime and includes support for Avatar Configurations.

Preload Avatar

For preloading, the avatars, use the Preload function Memory Cache. Memory Cache is accessible through the ReadyPlayerMeGameSubsystem. Provide a list of the avatar configuration parameters to the Preload function. It is possible to preload multiple versions of the same avatar to be able to use multiple avatar configs.

The avatars will not be loaded from the memory cache automatically

To be able to use the memory cache through the ReadyPlayerMeComponent component, in ReadyPlayerMeComponent enable the Use Memory Cache property.

Clear Memory Cache

If the preloaded avatars are not needed anymore, it's possible to clear the memory cache.

It's also possible to remove a specific avatar from the memory cache.