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Why isn't this for loop working and stopping animations?

Asked Jul 8, 2019588 views2 answers

local Animations = script.Animations:GetChildren() -- Gets the animations

function stopAnimations()
	for i = 1,#Animations do
		Animations[i]:Stop()
	end
end

stopAnimations() -- Fires the function

Local script located in StarterGui

Animations folder located in the Local script

9 animations located in the folder

Error = Stop is not a valid member of Animation

Why isn't it stopping the animations? There of course are other and better ways to do this but I still want to understand what's wrong here.

AnonymousJul 8, 2019Edited Jul 8, 2019

2 answers

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To stop an animation, you have to stop it from the humanoid. You can't stop it from the actual animation object, as :Stop() is not a method.

if you only want to stop the animations inside the "Animations" directory, this script should work nicely:

local Animations = script.Animations:GetChildren() -- Gets the animations

function stopAnimations()
    local playing = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()
    for _,Anim1 in pairs(playing) do
	for _,Anim2 in pairs(Animations) do
           if Anim1.Animation == Anim2 then
        	Anim1:Stop()
                break
    	   end
        end
    end
end

stopAnimations() -- Fires the function

AnonymousJul 8, 2019Permalink

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Thank you for answering! :)

AnonymousJul 8, 2019#

No problem :)

AnonymousJul 8, 2019#

You are stopping the Animation, which isn't playing. when you want to play an animation you must load it first with the LoadAnimation() function, like this:

local Animation = --Your animation here
local Humanoid = --The humanoid which will play the animation

local AnimationTrack = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation)

Then you play the track using the AnimationTrack:Play() function, and if you want to stop the track you don't say Animation:Stop(), you say AnimationTrack:Stop(). By adding all tracks into an array you can stop all of them.

Here's how the code should look like:

local Humanoid = --The humanoid which will play the animation
local AnimationTracks = Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks() -- All animation tracks

local function StopTracks()
	for i = 1, #AnimationTracks do
		AnimationTracks[i]:Stop()
	end
end --> Stop All the playing tracks

StopTracks() --> Run the function

AnonymousJul 8, 2019Edited Jul 8, 2019Permalink

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Thank you both for your explained answers! :)

AnonymousJul 8, 2019#

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