Loading bar doesn't load assets efficiently

[MarkoBrainz (Marko)]

I have a loading bar script that loads every Descendant of the game.

It does work, however, the percentage seems to be really off, and it takes way too long for the script to “load” the game when it’s already loaded.

I’ve looked for different methods to load the player’s game more efficiently, but couldn’t find anything. I think I’m missing something.

I want to improve the code by loading the game more efficiently because I think it’s loading assets that have already been loaded, which is why it takes so long.

local assets = game:GetDescendants()
local Bar = LoadingScreen.Bar
local barText = Bar.TextLabel

for i = 1, #assets do
	local asset = assets[i]
	local percentage = math.round(i / #assets * 100)

	if asset:IsA("Folder") then
		barText.Text = asset.Name.."..."
	end
	print(percentage)
	TS:Create(Bar, TweenInfo.new(0.2, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine), {Size = UDim2.fromScale(percentage/100, 0.025)}):Play()

	ContentProv:PreloadAsync({asset})
end

Here is a visual representation to get a better understanding:

The numbers below are the percentage of the game that has been loaded. And you can see how low it is seeing as everything looks already loaded!

[MarkoBrainz (Marko)]

I found a solution! Instead of loading the WHOLE game itself, I should have loaded the workspace, or even better, a folder in the workspace that contains all of the main assets to be loaded.

Here’s the changed code if anyone was wondering:

local assets = workspace.world:GetDescendants()
local Bar = LoadingScreen.Bar
local barText = Bar.TextLabel

for i = 1, #assets do
	local asset = assets[i]
	local percentage = math.round(i / #assets * 100)

	if asset:IsA("Folder") then
		barText.Text = asset.Name.."..."
	end
	print(percentage)
	TS:Create(Bar, TweenInfo.new(0.2, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine), {Size = UDim2.fromScale(percentage/100, 0.025)}):Play()

	ContentProv:PreloadAsync({asset})
end

Instead of loading all of this:

I’m only loading this: