If you detect that an asset has failed to load, you can retry with rbxassetid://&retry=1, rbxassetid://&retry=2, rbxassetid://&retry=3, etc.

So, therefore, you can automate this with a script. If you were to put something after it, say, rbxassetid://&retry=1, then it is a different URL, now being &retry=1, which is not cached by the client. The reason why trying to load an asset again will fail is because the URL is cached in Roblox’s cache.įor simplicity, rbxassetid:// actually just expands to: internally. Large, detailed environments with hundreds or even thousands of assets always worry me.Īctually this may surprise you, but there is an undocumented way to retry assets that have failed. Sometimes I worry about using too many cloud assets in my place, just because there’s a higher chance that something could fail to load. Perhaps this is to make locating script errors less confusing for the average user, but it’s kind of annoying how I’m not told at all if an image fails to load anymore.

The message only appears for unions, meshes, and audio now. I don’t know how many times I’ve noticed that some asset(s) failed to download on my client, forcing me to have to leave the place and completely restart Roblox, as that’s the only way to “retry” a failed asset.Īlso, over the last few years Roblox seems to have been removing some of the automatic “failed” error messages in the dev console, so sometimes I won’t even realize that an asset failed to load. This actually used to be a thing in the past, until Roblox removed it.Ī very long time ago assets used to automatically retry a few times, skipping the asset if it failed too many times in a row, but sometime around January 2017 Roblox changed it so that they can’t ever retry, after failing just once, even if you use PreloadAsync. It’s frustrating that we have practically no control over failed assets. Support this has been a huge pain of mine for a very long time.

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