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Why isnt my character preforming the animation when clicking it?

Asked Jun 11, 2018187 views3 answers

I'm making a sword, and I want it so that when you equip the tool and click it swings the sword through the animation i made. Why wont it work?

tool = script.Parent
local char = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Character

tool.Activated:connect(function()
	local char = tool.Parent
	local hum = char.Humanoid
	
	hum:LoadAnimation(script.Parent.Animation):Play()
end)

AnonymousJun 11, 2018

3 answers

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A few things you can do:

Make sure the animation has Looping FALSE and Priority as ACTION so it overlaps any other animation

Get the Character the safer way, it's hard to tell if script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent is whatever

Avoid Global Variables for game performance

Here:

local Tool = script.Parent
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer -- local script only
local Char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait() -- Character

Tool.Activated:Connect(function() -- Connect not connect, connect is deprecated
    local hum = Char:WaitForChild('Humanoid')
	local LoadIt = hum:LoadAnimation(script.Parent.Animation)
	LoadIt:Play()
end)

Now it should work :D!

Hopefully this helped!

AnonymousJun 11, 2018Permalink

3 comments

thanks! How do I make the animation faster?

AnonymousJun 11, 2018#

By changing the time

AnonymousJun 11, 2018#

Animation Editor

AnonymousJun 11, 2018#

You messed up on line 8. The function LoadAnimation returns an AnimationTrack so you need to create the reference to the new AnimationTrack first then use Play() on it.

tool = script.Parent
local char = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Character

tool.Activated:connect(function()
    local char = tool.Parent
    local hum = char.Humanoid

    local animationTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(script.Parent.Animation)
    -- Then play the animation track to run the animation you used in the arguments
    animationTrack:Play()
end)

AnonymousJun 11, 2018Permalink

Try this

local tool = script.Parent
local animation = nil


tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local char = script.Parent.Character
	local humanoid = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	
	animation = humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Parent.Animation)
end)

tool.Activated:connect(function()
  	animation:Play()
end)

tool.UnEquipped:Connect(function()
	animation:Stop()
	animation = nil
end)

That may work

AnonymousJun 11, 2018Permalink

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how can I make the animation faster?

AnonymousJun 11, 2018#

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