Most reliable way to load animations

[Content_Corrupted019 (StifledSaucepan)]

I am trying to get an animation track’s length so that I can play them for a set duration (and speed them up or slow them down accordingly), but all the track’s animation lengths are 0 (on both client and server) until I fully play the animation for the first time. I’ve tried preloading them with content provider, but that did not seem to help at all. Does anyone know a workaround?

[Project_Aurora]

Could always try:

-- psuedo code
if animTrack.Length == 0 then
	animTrack:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Length"):Wait()
end

or good ole reliable:

if animTrack.Length == 0 then
	repeat task.wait() until animTrack.Length > 0
end

[Content_Corrupted019 (StifledSaucepan)]

Both of these yield infinitely. The animation’s length stays at 0 until I first play the animation.

[Project_Aurora]

Dang never heard of this before… do you own the animations by chance? Could be due to that… if so then I honestly don’t know.

[Content_Corrupted019 (StifledSaucepan)]

Yes, I own the animations. It’s really annoying how even preloading them doesn’t fix this.

[Content_Corrupted019 (StifledSaucepan)]

The solution is to create a rig with an animator and load and play all the animations on it on the client. This is a pretty stupid solution, and it doesn’t make sense how preloading the animations does not mean they are immediately ready to be used.