Why doesn't my idle animation play while I stand still?
I made a script for an axe that swings (animation only no damage) and has an Idle stance when standing still. Everything works except for the idle animation. I don't know what's wrong. I'm a bit of a beginner. This is all in a local script
wait(5)
tool = script.Parent
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local hum = player.Character.Humanoid
local anim1 = Instance.new("Animation")
anim1.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7253655066"
local stance = hum:LoadAnimation(anim1)
local ten = true
local swinging = false
local en = true
local on = 1
local anim2 = Instance.new("Animation")
anim2.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7260872928"
local axe1 = hum:LoadAnimation(anim2)
local anim3 = Instance.new("Animation")
anim3.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7264662836"
local axe2 = hum:LoadAnimation(anim3)
local anim4 = Instance.new("Animation")
anim4.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7264665302"
local axe3 = hum:LoadAnimation(anim4)
while tool.Equipped == true and hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude == 0 do
stance:Play()
stance.Looped = true
if hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
stance:Stop()
end
end
tool.Activated:Connect(function()
if en == false then return end
en = false
local char = tool.Parent
local hum = char.Humanoid
local anim = hum:LoadAnimation (tool.Handle ["Animation"..on]) -- Animation 1 or Animation 2
anim:Play()
swinging = true
ten = true
wait(0.4)
swinging = false
on = on + 1
if on >= 4 then
on = 1
wait(1)
end
en = true
end)
2 answers
I recommend changing your method of loading animations, as Humanoid:LoadAnimation() has been deprecated. Try using Animator:LoadAnimation() instead.
Edit: My bad, didn't read the full script. Since you have tool.Equipped == true and hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude == 0 in the conditional segment for your while loop, if those conditions aren't met, the while loop breaks. So we'll move it into an if statement:
while true do
if tool.Equipped == true and hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude == 0 then
stance:Play()
stance.Looped = true
if hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
stance:Stop()
end
end
wait()
end
Now that we've done that, we have run into another issue. If you were to test with this fixed while loop, you'll notice that the animation will keep restarting every 0.03 seconds. To fix that, we'll check if the animation is playing using a property called IsPlaying. Add in another if statement and check if the animation is already playing:
while true do
if tool.Equipped and hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude == 0 then
if not stance.IsPlaying then
stance:Play()
stance.Looped = true
end
if hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
stance:Stop()
end
end
wait()
end
while wait() do if tool.Equipped == true and hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude == 0 then stance:Play() stance.Looped = true elseif hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then stance:Stop() end end
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