How do I make tool animations? I've tried many things that just don't work

I'm pretty new to scripting and i'm trying to make a tron disk that when you click it plays an animation and attacks. The problem is, I don't know where to start. I've tried pasting and modifying other scripts into it but they never work. Even things like this /

-- Waits for the child of the specified parent local function WaitForChild(parent, childName) while not parent:FindFirstChild(childName) do parent.ChildAdded:wait() end return parent[childName] end

local Tool = script.Parent

local Animations = {} local MyHumanoid local MyCharacter

local function PlayAnimation(animationName) if Animations[animationName] then Animations[animationName]:Play() end end

local function StopAnimation(animationName) if Animations[animationName] then Animations[animationName]:Stop() end end

function OnEquipped(mouse) MyCharacter = Tool.Parent MyHumanoid = WaitForChild(MyCharacter, 'Humanoid') if MyHumanoid then Animations['EquipAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'EquipAnim5')) Animations['IdleAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'IdleAnim3')) Animations['OverheadAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'OverheadAnim2')) Animations['SlashAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'SlashAnim2')) Animations['ThrustAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'ThrustAnim2')) Animations['UnequipAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'UnequipAnim2')) end PlayAnimation('EquipAnim') PlayAnimation('IdleAnim') end

function OnUnequipped() for animName, _ in pairs(Animations) do StopAnimation(animName) end end

Tool.Equipped:connect(OnEquipped) Tool.Unequipped:connect(OnUnequipped)

WaitForChild(Tool, 'PlaySlash').Changed:connect( function (value) --if value then PlayAnimation('SlashAnim') --else -- StopAnimation('SlashAnim') --end end)

WaitForChild(Tool, 'PlayThrust').Changed:connect( function (value) --if value then PlayAnimation('ThrustAnim') --else -- StopAnimation('ThrustAnim') --end end)

WaitForChild(Tool, 'PlayOverhead').Changed:connect( function (value) --if value then PlayAnimation('OverheadAnim') --else -- StopAnimation('OverheadAnim') --end end)

If someone could help me figure out scripting this sort of thing it would help out alot! Thanks!

What I do is position the tool correctly in the player's hand, then weld it. Then I play the game, and take a copy of my character. I stop the game, and paste my character into the workspace. From there you can animate the rig with the tool attached to the hand. Then set the animation to 'action' priority. Also, make sure that you lock all the other parts that aren't moving so the action plays smoothly with default player movements. Then after that export it. Then when the tool event is fired (click, button press, whatever), you play the animation on the player's humanoid.