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Idle animation wont stop playing?

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So ,i have a script for my sword 

local CanAttack = true

script.Parent.Equipped:connect(function()
	local idle = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Idle)
	local attack = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Attack)
	
	idle:Play()
end)

script.Parent.Activated:connect(function()
	local idle = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Idle)
	local attack = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Attack)
	
	if CanAttack == true then
		attack:Play()
		idle:Stop()
		CanAttack = false
		wait(1)
		attack:Stop()
		idle:Play()
		CanAttack = true
		script.Parent.canDamage.Value = true
	end
end)

script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
	local idle = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Idle)	
	
	idle:Stop()
end)

basically it plays the idle animation unless the tool is activated, then it will run the attack animation and go back to the idle animation after 1 second.

HOWEVER, the problem is.. when i unequipped the sword my character model still plays the idle animation, so he pretty much runs around with his hand up but no sword in it.

Anonymous

2 answers

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idle needs to be global across the script. Don't use LoadAnimation every time you want to play/stop it, because that would make a new animation playing on top of the other one. I might also suggest removing the code on line 6 as you don't use it in that function.

local CanAttack = true
local idle = nil

script.Parent.Equipped:connect(function()
    idle = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Idle)
    local attack = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Attack)

    idle:Play()
end)

script.Parent.Activated:connect(function()
    local attack = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Attack)

    if CanAttack == true then
        attack:Play()
        idle:Stop()
        CanAttack = false
        wait(1)
        attack:Stop()
        idle:Play()
        CanAttack = true
        script.Parent.canDamage.Value = true
    end
end)

script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
    local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character

	idle:Stop()
	idle:Destroy()
end)
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4 comments

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awesome! this code worked! i do have a question though, what did making local idle = nil do? and also, what is the difference of having local in front of a variable name when creating it do?

Anonymous#
0

hey can i ask why you made a local variable character at the bottom?

Anonymous#
0

Actually, it doesn't need to be there. But if you want to access the character, put the variable at the top so you can use it across the whole script.

Anonymous#

You need to put, on unequip stop animation. Because the animation plays on equip, so the script does not have a stop point it still thinks the sword is equipped. So it is still playing the animation. When you put it in a stop point the script will know the sword is not equipped so I need to stop playing animation.

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