Is there are way to completely freeze character and play an animation that can't be interrupted? [closed]
I am working on a game, where players are climbing moving staircase and can cast spells (enchant) sections of it. One of the spells changes section into 1970's disco floor, and is supposed to freeze character and play a dance animation for 5 seconds. While I was able to freeze character, once a player tries to move or jump (which they usually do) the animation stops...
Since Create Stairs script is quite large I am posting just relevant section of it. (section fires when character touches the stairs's detection plate)
01 | --make player dance |
02 | if stairBase.StairsType.Value == "disco" and not playersWhoDanced[player] and spell ~= "destroy" then |
03 | print (player, " entered") |
04 | playersWhoDanced[player] = true |
05 | local dance = PlayerStatManager:letsDance(player) |
06 | --wait(1) -- let them climb a bit :) |
07 | local memory = character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed |
08 | character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0 |
09 | wait(1) |
10 | dance:Play() |
11 | wait(5) |
12 | dance:Stop() |
13 | character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = memory |
14 | spawn(function() |
15 | wait(2) -- i want players to dance at least twice |
16 | playersWhoDanced[player] = false |
17 | end) |
18 | end |
Relevant fragment of PlayerStatManager script:
01 | -- Setup table that we will return to scripts that require the ModuleScript. |
02 | local PlayerStatManager = {} |
03 |
04 | local animation = Instance.new("Animation") |
05 | animation.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/Asset?ID=507771019" -- dance animation |
06 |
07 | local danceAnimation ={} |
08 |
09 |
10 |
11 | function PlayerStatManager:letsDance(player) |
12 | return danceAnimation[player] |
13 | end |
14 |
15 | local function setupPlayerData(player) |
Early Alpha can be accessed here. Just jump on the yellow beacon to cast disco spell.
https://www.roblox.com/games/2418401851
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I can help later with a more detailed answer pertaining to the scripts you've placed here, but otherwise, the things you'd most likely need are:
- Making the Player Immobile
Since you need to make the player able to also perform the animation, they need to remain un-anchored. As a result, as you did, you need to adjust the WalkSpeed of the player on the Server:
1 | character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0 |
Note: The AnimationTrack must be played in the same script it was added to the player
- Making the Animation Continuous
The animation track has a property named "Looped" which if set to true, will make the animation continue playing until it has been stopped:
1 | danceAnimation[player] = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation) |
2 | danceAnimation[player].Looped = true |
- Removing the Jump Capabilities of the player
Humanoids have a property named "JumpPower" which will prevent jumping when set to 0
1 | character.Humanoid.JumpPower = 0 |
Combined (Example w/ Debounce)
01 | local animation = Instance.new("Animation") |
02 | animation.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/Asset?ID=507771019" |
03 | local danceAnimation[player] = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation) |
04 | danceAnimation[player].Looped = true |
05 |
06 | local debounce = true |
07 |
08 | function Spell() |
09 | if debounce == false then return end |
10 | debounce = false |
11 | character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0 |
12 | character.Humanoid.JumpPower = 0 |
13 | danceAnimation[player]:Play() |
14 | wait(5) |
15 | character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16 -- Default |
16 | character.Humanoid.JumpPower = 50 -- Default |
17 | danceAnimation[player]:Stop() |
18 | debounce = true |
19 | end |
I used "character.Humanoid" since at some point not shown in the scripts you defined the character
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