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Playing a walk animation in a custom character? (Updated script)

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9 years ago

I have a script that plays an animation whenever W,A,S, or D are pressed . The animation ends in a loop, however I was wondering if there was a way I could get it to stop the animation when the key was released? Would it work with a looped animation? Do I need to remove the loop? I've tried adding an additional chunk of code using Service.InputEnded but the animation continued to play.

--EDIT-- Script now fires when key is released, And I've changed the animation to one that doesn't loop. It still doesn't work quite right however.

01        local Service = game:GetService("UserInputService")
02local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
03local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
04local char = player.Character
05 
06Service.InputBegan:connect(function(input, recieved)
07    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
08        if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.W then
09 
10            repeat
11 
12            print('Input W')
13        animation.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/Asset?ID=313344129"
14        local animTrack = player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation) 
15            animTrack:Play()
16            wait(1)
17 
18 
19 
20        until
21 
22            Service.InputEnded:connect(function(input, recieved)
23            if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
24            if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.W then
25 
26            print('Input W stahped')
27        local animTrack = player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation) 
28            animTrack:Stop()
29 
30                    end
31                end
32            end)
33        end
34    end
35end)
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Hero_ic 502

9 years ago

Its better to use the humanoid running function to make animations I also recommend making a function that plays the animations for you.

01--[[local animation = Instance.new("Animation") Our first change is that instead of doing this we do this]]
02local walkAnimation = Instance.new("Animation") --next we will already set the ID
03walkAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://313344129" --[[I recommend using rbxassetid:// it is quicker and saves time]]
04--Next we add a wait so we can have the player load
05wait(1)
06local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
07local char = player.Character or player.Character:Added() --without this it could easily bug online
08local human = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") --allows us to get the humanoid to load animations
09local playingWalkAnimation = false --this is our debounce read down for more on it
10--Now we will make an function that plays animations for us!
11function playAnimation(animation)
12    --Next we make an animation tracker right here in this function
13    local aniTrack = human:LoadAnimation(animation)--we will call it this aniTrack and load the animation right now
14    aniTrack:Stop() --we stop the animation first then wait
15    wait()
16    aniTrack:Play() --next we play it and then the function is done!
17end
18 
19--Next we make an on running function
20function onRunning(speed) --speed gets the player speed
21    if speed > 1 then --[[we check if the speed is greater then 1 and not 0 or the animation will play when you land]]
22        --next I suggest adding a debounce so the animation does not jitter
23        if playingWalkAnimation == false then -- this will be our debounce
24        playingWalkAnimation = true --[[setting it to true will stop the animation from looping over itself]]
25        playAnimation(walkAnimation) --now it shall play our animation using this function!
26        end
27    else
28        --Next we set the debounce to false so we can play the animmation when running again
29        playingWalkAnimation = false
30        --we can add the idle animation here if you like
31    end
32end
33--And finally we add a connect function so the onRunning function will even work
34human.Running:connect(OnRunning)
35--And that is it!
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Hope this helped! ~KIHeros (There may be a few errors in this please tell me in the comments!)

that script wont stop the loop. DevingDev 346 — 8y

Id suggest to use the "Animate" script found inthe default player, all you will need to do is change the animation ids to your own Zendaya774isstupid 50 — 8y

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