Animation does not run immediately

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

This topic is related to one of my previous posts:

Animation not running correctly

My goal here is to play the animations required on a player’s character when they equip a tool. My approach here is to take a duplicate of the character’s Animate script, and changed the Animation IDs of my desired animation instances. It all works well but when I equip the tool and run, the Torso and left arm of the character model does not animate. As you can see in the video, those two parts do not animate. What I am trying to achieve here is to make all parts animate like how the…

My problem in this post is now how the animation runs. My custom tool animations do not run immediately when I equip a tool, and the default animations do not run immediately as well when I unequip a tool.

I’ve searched the devforum and found this “hacky” solution:

Changing Idle animations will not play immediately, but only after doing another action

I partly solved it, but I am not sure this is the best solution: After changing the animations in the server script, I send a remotevent to the local player. I then have a localscript running this code: game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Landed) There is still one problem. Even though this fixes it for the player, the animations does not display correctly for other players watching my player move. They actually see an animation change, but the chang…

It worked, but now when I equip/unequip the tool, the running animation does not run immediately until I jump or stop:

Is there any other way to solve this other than using this “hacky” solution?

[Tetraic (Axius)]

Don’t replace the animate script!
Just have a block of code that checks if the player is moving forward, such as if Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then

And, if the player is running, play the run animation, if not, then stop the animation track (You can name animation tracks you load, so you can find them by iterating through all playing tracks on the character using :GetPlayingAnimationTracks() and checking their names for the specific name you gave it.)

You can also use ContentProvider to preload animations before you actually play them, using :PreloadAsync()

I suggest you search these on the documentation if you dont know how to use these methods/services.

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

Unfortunately, both of your methods fail to solve the problem.

[mejackdaawesome2928 (ergophobia)]

@ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked

It worked, but now when I equip/unequip the tool, the running animation does not run immediately until I jump or stop:

cant you use the same “hacky solution?”

im pretty sure since this is a core script thing you cant do much to fix it unless you make your own animate script, which has its own downsides.

[ItzMeZeus_IGotHacked (notzeussz)]

@mejackdaawesome2928

cant you use the same “hacky solution?”

I did, and it still doesn’t work sadly.

[bloodbonniekingnoob1 (Brutus)]

It’d be easier to copy the animate script (like when you click play) and paste it and replace whatever you need. I did it and it works perfectly. The Animate script will not be created if you copy it.