How to effectively preload animations?

[DestDeHat (dest)]

I’m working on a game and in the game there are jumpscares for certain creatures that kill you, but i don’t know how i would preload their jumpscare animations.

[Davvex87original (Davvex87)]

Doing Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation) or Animator:LoadAnimation(animation) should preload the animation.
I recomend using an Animator object instead of the humanoid.

[TheNamesLua (Lua)]

create a reference to the loaded animation before you play it
for example

local loadedAnimation = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)

function do_something()
    loadedAnimation:Play()
end

task.wait(2)

do_something()