How to load animation beforehand?

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#1

There’s probably an easy fix for this, but I’m new to scripting animations. Whenever I play an animation, there’s a tiny delay until the animation actually plays because it hasn’t completely loaded for the player yet. How do I fix this?

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#2

You cant I think, the best way you can do might be to Load the animations once the players character is added then just stop them.

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#3 
local ContentProvider = game:GetService("ContentProvider")
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId = "whatever"
ContentProvider:PreloadAsync({animation})

Also make sure you’re loading it on the client for the fastest response times

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#4

okay, cool. but im still a little bit confused about it. would i do animation:Play() after that? i did that with my animation but it says that “Play” isn’t a child of animation.

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#5

afterwards you still have to load the animation into the humanoid,

local animationtrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)
animationtrack:Play()
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#6

alright, thank you! ill do this in the future.