Threads In Unity To Avoid Animation Freeze

Scripting
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Every time I load a texture from a saved file, any animation in my scene is frozen until the loading from file is done. I read so many different opinions about Threads, but I have to load the texture in a different thread to avoid freezing. My code is attached to a gameobject which is a UI popup window

void Start() {
Texture2D tex = LoadTexFromFile(); //Should be in a diffrent thread that returns a texture
sprite = Sprite.Create(tex, new Rect(0, 0, tex.width, tex.height), new Vector2(tex.width / 2, tex.height / 2));
picFrame.GetComponent<Image>().overrideSprite = sprite; }

How do I safely use threads in my code?

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The vast majority of the Unity API, especially setting component data, is not thread safe. You may be able to load the bytes from disk safely, the data you read for Texture2D.LoadData(), but I’m not sure you’ll be able to assign it to the actual texture off the main thread.

Let us know how it goes.