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How to animate viewmodels?

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Lyphios 77
5 years ago

I have a brawler game, and inside of replicated storage, I've got some fake arms that are raycasted and animated. My question is, how do I actually make it so that when I press "e" or press left click, it plays the animations? because with the script I have right now, it doesn't do anything. Here's my code, tell me where I went wrong, and what I can do instead

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01local player = game.ReplicatedStorage.Arms
02repeat wait() until player.Character.Humanoid
03local humanoid = player.Character.Humanoid
04local mouse = player:GetMouse()
05local anim = Instance.new("Animation")
06anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid//:noseeslol"
07mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
08    if key == "r" then
09        local playAnim = humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
10        playAnim:Play()
11    end
12end)

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Answered by
Rinextel 291 Moderation Voter
5 years ago
Edited 5 years ago

Hello!

There are a few problems with your script. First off, you never parented the animation! You created it, but never gave it a parent.

Second, this script would cause immense lag because every time a player presses "r" it creates a new Animation. Which is just not needed. You can solve your issue by doing this,

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01local player = game.ReplicatedStorage.Arms
02local User = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
03repeat wait() until User.CharacterAdded
04if User.Character:FindFirstChild("WhateverYouNameTheAnimation") == nil then  --Checks if the animation is already there
05    local anim = Instance.new("Animation")
06        anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid//:noseeslol"
07        anim.Name = "WhateverYouWantToName"
08        anim.Parent = User.Character
09end
10 
11local function KeyPress (input, gameProcessed)
12    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.R then
13        local playAnim = humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
14        playAnim:Play()
15    end
16end
17 
18local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
19 
20UIS.InputBegan:Connect(KeyPress)

This should work! If there are any errors then let me know! Happy scripting!

Be sure to upvote if this works and mark as solution!

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It might work, but "humanoid" and "(anim)" in line 13 are marked as unknown Lyphios 77 — 5y
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Define humanoid, I forgot to do that. Rinextel 291 — 5y
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Ok, so I'll do local humanoid=game.players.LocalPlayer:findfirstchild"humanoid"? Lyphios 77 — 5y
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