Animate on mouse hover

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1

Hi there,
I’m currently trying to make an NPC wave when the player is hovering their mouse over them. Currently no errors in output, but no result either.

Code is from a LocalScript in StartPlayerScripts.

local NPC = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("NPCs"):WaitForChild("NPC1")
local Humanoid = NPC:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
local ClickDetector = NPC:WaitForChild("Hitbox"):WaitForChild("ClickDetector")

local waveAnimId = "rbxassetid://507770239"
local waveAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
waveAnimation.AnimationId = waveAnimId

local playingTrack

ClickDetector.MouseHoverEnter:Connect(function()
	if not playingTrack then
		playingTrack = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(waveAnimation)
		playingTrack:Play()
	end
end)

ClickDetector.MouseHoverLeave:Connect(function()
	if playingTrack then
		playingTrack:Stop()
		playingTrack = nil
	end
end)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

2

Andddd, this is a LocalScript, right? These functions only work on them.

3

Yes, a LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts. Is this the right way to go about this one?

4

Yup. Though, Humanoid:LoadAnimation is deprecated, but I don’t think it’ll cause any issue here.

I’d go through this checklist to eliminate all possible issues:

5

In the linked post you mention that you need to be the owner of the animation - does this still apply to default Roblox animations?