Could we Have Async Loaders?

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Hey!
So I think it would be really cool if we had async versions of loaders, instead of relying on callbacks. This way users could use .then() instead of feeding in a callback. This provides a lot more freedom when it comes to returning promises, etc. In specific I’m using the ColladaLoader, however this would apply to all loaders. Could this be done?

Thanks,
S41L0R

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Most loaders have a loadAsync method, if they inherit from THREE.Loader. :slight_smile:

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Oops, I don’t know the existence of loadAsync, have been using
await new Promise(resolve=>loader.load(url,geo=>resolve(geo))) before.
Thanks!

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Thanks! All I had done is ctrl-f for async in the colladaLoader file, I completely forgot about inheriting.

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var gltfLoader = new THREE.GLTFLoader();
var result = await gltfLoader.loadAsync("car/scene.gltf");
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