[gameprogrammer] Multi-Threading in C++

["richard sabbarton" <richard.sabbarton@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

 

I am relatively new to the list and I am still learning.  I am working on a 3D game (personal learning project at the moment) and I am trying to spawn a new thread at a certain point in my code.  The purpose of this thread is to pull objects, models and textures from files into memory (for OpenGL) while I am continuing to render in the primary thread.

 

So far I have created a thread and the thread spawns OK.  It starts running but during the loading process I am getting access violation errors when trying to access arrays of GLuint variables (for the textures).  At this point the arrays are not in use by the primary thread so I thought I would be able to avoid using any sort of mutex.  I am still new to multi-threading and I am using the standard WINAPI CreateThread() function.

 

Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this or point me to any good tutorials online.

 

Thanks

 

Richard