Currently, you are unable to play animations unless they are owned by you. However, if you intend on making models for widespread use, you have to turn to things such as weld animations, which is silly, as well as intensive and choppy after creating multiple weld-animated scripts.
My suggestion is to add a “Free Item” checkbox to animations, so that others can use your animations.
Yes, this would allow people access to better animations if they cannot make their own. This would also improve the overall pollishedness of games.
Since Animations can be made for free, anyway, some API should be unlocked:
Function Content KeyframeSequenceProvider:RegisterActiveKeyframeSequence(Instance keyframeSequence)
Function Content KeyframeSequenceProvider:RegisterKeyframeSequence(Instance keyframeSequence)
Those would allow scripters to turn keyframeSequences into animations in real-time.
This is how the Animation Plugin creates a temporary animation to test with in studio.
Sadly enough, those methods only work in studio mode. (For 100% sure not online)
Unlocking them would allow better control of animations, as in, being able to edit and play them in-game.
Also, people could now manually upload 20 animations in one model (or in the place itself).
Then they can just play those bundled animations, without the need of them being uploaded as one.