Animating Character only plays on Client but not to the server

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Hello, i’m trying to animate double jumping for a character, and it only plays for the client, and i need help to fix this. Also, if i have to play it on a server script, how do i go about getting the local player?

the script:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = script.Parent
local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local dbjump 

local Animation = Instance.new("Animation", player.Character)
Animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://6979528677"

dbjump = humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation)

local HasDoubleJumped = false
local LastJump = tick()
local function jumpRequest()
	if (tick()- LastJump) >= .2 then
		if humanoid:GetState()== Enum.HumanoidStateType.Freefall and not HasDoubleJumped then
			HasDoubleJumped = true
			humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
			dbjump:Play()
		end
	end
end

humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(function(old,new)
	if new == Enum.HumanoidStateType.Landed then 
		HasDoubleJumped = false
	elseif new == Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping then
		LastJump = tick()
	end
end)

UserInputService.JumpRequest:Connect(jumpRequest)
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The issue might be that you are using the humanoid to load the animation. On the server, this is usually fine, but on a local script you have to be careful.

When you call :LoadAnimation() on a humanoid, it will check to see if it has an Animator object as a child. If it doesn’t, it will create one for itself. This is key because the server is supposed to be the one that creates the animator, at least if you want it to replicate to the server.

So, my solution would just to wait for the animator to be created by the server and use that to load the animation instead.

Here’s a modified version of your script that waits for the Animator object and loads the animation from there:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = script.Parent
local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animator = humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local dbjump 

local Animation = Instance.new("Animation", player.Character)
Animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://6979528677"

dbjump = animator:LoadAnimation(Animation)

local HasDoubleJumped = false
local LastJump = tick()
local function jumpRequest()
	if (tick()- LastJump) >= .2 then
		if humanoid:GetState()== Enum.HumanoidStateType.Freefall and not HasDoubleJumped then
			HasDoubleJumped = true
			humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
			dbjump:Play()
		end
	end
end

Hope this helps! Let me know if this doesn’t work.

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i just tried it and it still plays for client only, or do i have to manually add the animator to the humanoid?

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i just manually added the animator to the humanoid and now its playing for the server, thanks, this really helped

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Oh cool, it’s interesting to hear that manually adding it fixed the issue, you taught me something today as well! Glad I could help!

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