How can I make decals load faster in an animation?

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#1

I have a walking animation for one of my characters. I imported the seperate decals onto a string where it will load it using string.sub. It only loads one decal per second tho. Is there a way to make it load the string values faster?

local animate = {"rbxassetid://11469164411", "rbxassetid://11469163009", "rbxassetid://11469165118", "rbxassetid://11469163009"}


while true do
	for i, v in pairs(animate) do
		for i = 1, string.len(v) do
			wait()
			script.Parent.Image = string.sub(v, 1)
		end
	end
end

my only workaround so far is this ugly block of code.

while true do
 wait(0.25)
 script.Parent.Image = "rbxassetid://11469164411"
 wait(0.25)
 script.Parent.Image = "rbxassetid://11469163009"
 wait(0.25)
 script.Parent.Image = "rbxassetid://11469165118"
 wait(0.25)
 script.Parent.Image = "rbxassetid://11469163009"
end

Yes, I know it says “While true do.” It’s just so I can see how it runs on studio first before implementing it to my script.

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#2

Try using ContentProvider:PreloadAsync() for this.

#3

It’s not that the decals need preloading, my issue is that the line that says:

script.Parent.Image = string.sub(v, 1)

It only changes the value once per second.

#4

wait() usually only waits ~1/30 of a second and your IDs have around 25 characters, so looping through each string character-by-character will take a little under a second. I’m not sure if I understand your question completely, but couldn’t you loop through the animate array and set the Image to the value of each iteration?

while true do
    for i, v in pairs(animate) do
        script.Parent.Image = v
        task.wait()
    end
end
#5

I’m not really sure how to do that, I’m not very advanced in scripting and I only have a basic understanding of reading code

#6

Ah, no worries :slight_smile: Basically instead of doing all the string.sub and string.len stuff in the loop, just set script.Parent.Image to v instead.

local animate = {"rbxassetid://11469164411", "rbxassetid://11469163009", "rbxassetid://11469165118", "rbxassetid://11469163009"}

while true do
    for i, v in pairs(animate) do
        script.Parent.Image = v -- set .Image to v instead of string.sub(v,1)
        task.wait(0.25) -- task.wait() is more accurate than wait()
    end
end
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