Do I understand correctly, you are trying to make loading take more time?!
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This is due to the fact that Parts do not require preloading.
From the top of my head, the things that require preloading are:
- Textures
- Decals
- MeshParts
- UnionOperations
…and other things. You’re probably trying to preload a group of Parts, which is why it is so fast.
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no, it’s just strange whenever you join the game, let’s say the game has 100 parts, the gui only says 2 (using @Starveldt’s script) and then the gui closes.
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I have 31 parts, two of then are the spawn location and the baseplate. the rest are just test parts. they aren’t in a group. any other idea?
edit: ah. I forgot, you said parts, im going to try decals now.
edit 2: Now it changes to 3, I put decals in every single part.
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That’s why.
Parts don’t need preloading. If you wanna fix this issue, it’s just about changing your toLoad array.
--note: it already replaces the default loading gui
--// Variables \\--
local loadingScreen = script.ScreenGui
loadingScreen.Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
--// Loading \\--
local contentProvider = game:GetService("ContentProvider")
-- ex.
local map = workspace:WaitForChild("Map")
local loadFilter =
{
UnionOperation = true;
MeshPart = true;
Texture = true;
Decal = true;
}
local toLoad = {}
for _, descendant in map:GetDescendants() do
if loadFilter[descendant.ClassName] then
table.insert(toLoad, descendant)
end
end
local total = #toLoad
local loaded = 0
-- Wrap this in a protected call.
local success, error = pcall(contentProvider.PreloadAsync, contentProvider, toLoad, function()
loaded += 1
loadingScreen.cs.LoadingName.Text = "loading: " .. loaded .. "/" .. total .. " " .. toLoad[loaded].Name
loadingScreen.cs.BarBG.Bar.Size = UDim2.fromScale(loaded / total, 1)
print("Loaded", toLoad[loaded])
end)
if not success then
warn("Could not preload assets:", error)
end
--// Finished Loading \\--
task.wait(1)
loadingScreen:Destroy()
it does the exact same thing
character limit
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That’s because there is literally that much to preload. You only have 3 things that can be preloaded in your ‘Map’ instance.
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The script you sent earlier uses GetChildren. This doesn’t iterate through children of children.
Make sure you know the difference between GetDescendants and GetChildren.
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so then how would I change the script so it loads children of children?
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im sorry if im waisting your time
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Use GetDescendants like I said.
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To be clear PreloadAsync only preloads “stuff with asset id”.
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PreloadAsync can load instances, though if the ‘asset id’ is empty it will throw a warning in the output.
(–Was thinking of invalid ids, my bad)
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It will load only instances with custom ids.
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I tried multiple ways of using getdescendants and get children,
but the only one that worked was the one you used in the current script. it still only loads 3 parts. this is the gui:
then after 1 second the gui closes.
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It’s because there is nothing to preload in your other decals, if they are assumedly empty.
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so then how would I test to see if the script actually works?
meshparts? unions?
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The script does work if it can succesfully preload the 3 decals that have actual content in them, but if you do need to see if it works, add multiple decals with different asset ids into your map.
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Add this before PreloadAsync
local toLoad = {}
for i = 1, 100 do
table.insert(toLoad, "rbxthumb://type=Avatar&w=100&h=100&id=" .. math.random(1,1000000))
end
(From roblox wiki)
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thanks! it works
you earned a solve 
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