Animations get stuck loading forever

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I have a tool that I’m trying to animate, and I’m using this block of code to preload the animations before the player equips it.

local function preloadAnims()
	for i, v in pairs(animations) do
		local track = animator:LoadAnimation(v)
		repeat
			task.wait(1/30)
		until track.Length > 0
		
		loadedAnims[i] = track
	end
end

This works perfectly fine about 90% of the time. Otherwise, the animation track completely fails to load and the script gets stuck in an infinite yield. The only thing I can think of doing is to just call LoadAnimation() inside of a loop until it finally decides to work, but that sounds wildly stupid.
Are there any more reliable ways to load animations that I don’t know of? I have also tried preloading these animations via ContentProvider and that seems to have absolutely no effect.

2

It does already yield, why would you have such a loop?
Not to mention some of your animations could be static (having only 1 frame) there so making this loop infinete.

There so get rid of this code entirely:

Also please use table.insert as since it is faster. Proofs: Performance - Luau