How do I make a loading GUI when a client is trying to unload something in the game?

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

DISCLAIMER: I don’t mean by the loading screen GUI when you joined the game and your client is processing/loading contents/assets of the game.

I’ve seen some games such as Build A Boat For Treasure have this loading system where (in this case I am talking about the game) when you are loading your boat slot, the game shows up a loading GUI whilst loading the “blocks” or assets of the boat until it knows it is finished loading the boat. Take a look at this video to understand what I am talking about:

My questions are:

1. How does the game know when an asset is done loading?
2. Is there something to do with ContentProvider service?

[dthecoolest]

I believe it’s just this, measuring the # of descendants

Wait for model to be fully replicated to client?

Update for anyone else experiencing this problem in the future: I initially tried RequestQueueSize to make sure there were no parts being streamed to the client to verify that it was fully loaded. I thought it worked but turns out it didn’t, or at least not 100% of the time. So, I tried my other idea, which was to have some IntValue with the value set to the amount of descendants on the server, then check if the amount of descendants on the client matches it. Turns out, based on all of my testin…

there’s also this replication trick:

@Fluffmiceter

-Create a server script which fires a remoteevent each Heartbeat, and on the client, create a localscript listening to OnClientEvent and make it print something every time the remote event is received.
-Then, create a separate server script, wait a couple of seconds, and then parent a really large model from ServerStorage to Workspace.
-Now, in Play Solo, watch the client output and observe that your print statement is firing basically every frame; but, at the exact moments the model is being transferred from ServerStorage to Workspace, all of the print statements will stop and only resume until the model is done replicating.

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

Replication priority huh.

Is there any other article that explains this term?

[Forummer]

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/Custom-Loading-Screens

[Forummer]

ReplicatedFirst | Roblox Creator Documentation

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

Did you not read this? I don’t want the loading GUI at the starting of the game.

@ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked

DISCLAIMER: I don’t mean by the loading screen GUI when you joined the game and your client is processing/loading contents/assets of the game.

[Forummer]

The second link regarding ReplicatedFirst may still be of some assistance to your second question.

[DeveloperSiverity (Siverity)]

Make a things and destroy when game:IsLoaded()