As far as I understand, the texture loader immediately returns something like one pixel buffer with (0,0,0,0) color to use till the texture is loaded, and that color, multiplied by diffuse color makes the model black. Is that correct? If it is, why not to make that color (1, 1, 1, 1) to preserve t…

[image] tfoller: there is emptyTextures object there that is used while the texture is being loaded. I’ve totally missed the code in WebGLState. Indeed, gl.bindTexture() uses an “empty” instance of WebGLTexture. Meaning with no data defined. [image] tfoller: why not make this change in t…

Model is black while the texture is loading

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tfoller June 17, 2022, 3:54pm 6

This way you can give an “average” texture color to your model first and then swap it to white when the texture is ready to deliver a smoother loading experience:

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Model is black while the texture is loading

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