# Splash Screen

the branded boot splash and a reusable loading screen.

```{raw} html
<a class="example-run-button" href="../demos/features_ui_splash_screen.html">▶ Run in browser</a>

```

**Tags:** `ui` `splash` `loading` `branding`

Every windowed SimVX game boots with the engine's branded splash: a fade in
from black, the SIMVX wordmark over a faint centre-lit grid, a segmented
gradient progress bar, then a fade back to black once the first frame is ready
(a one-second minimum stops sub-second flicker on fast hardware). This demo
runs with that default, then lets you re-trigger the same `SplashScreen`
control as an in-game loading screen driven by a real 0..1 progress source:
the pattern for heavy scene transitions.


## What it demonstrates

- The default boot splash (`App(splash=None)`): automatic on windowed runs;
  configure via `App(splash=..., splash_min_time=..., unbranded=...)`.
- Reusing `SplashScreen` for scene transitions: bind `progress` to any
  `() -> float` or an object with a `.progress` attribute (an asset
  `BatchHandle` works as-is).
- `skippable=True`: once loading completes, any key or click skips the hold.
- The `finished` signal driving teardown (`splash.destroy`).

Controls:
  L / Click / Tap - Simulate loading a level behind a SplashScreen
  Escape          - Quit

## Source

```{literalinclude} ../../examples/features/ui/splash_screen.py
:language: python
:linenos:
```