Animating Custom Enemy NPC

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Hey all, I’m currently trying to script the animations I’ve created for an enemy NPC to play during their respective actions.

My question comes from how can I tell when my npc is not moving, moving, or jumping? I looked into HumanoidState but that doesn’t seem like it will accomplish what I need. Unless I’m using it wrong.

Every animation tutorial I look up just copy and pastes the default ROBLOX LocalScript Animator, which works for Player animations but not NPC animations. Maybe I could frankenstein the local script to work, but i’d rather try and learn the best way to go about this.

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I would use the StateChanged (has two params: OldHumanoidStateType, NewHumanoidStateType) event within the Humanoid, and keep a dictionary of all the animations. Once the state has changed, pause all the old anims, and play the new one. Simple.

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Could we see your current code?

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