So I need to do 'BMK [b]makemods[b]-a -h' once, and then select the option 'Build threaded' and Bmax does the work. Perfect!
You'll need to do this every time modules get updated (Rebuild All Mods will *not* also do the threaded versions just yet).
So don't expect to be able to 'load images in the background' suddenly/magicall
I guess the best thing to do would be to load the file into memory in a bank, return that data to the main thread, and then load the image from the memory bank into a TImage object. Or something...