Animation fails to load

I currently have a very weird problem. Im helping this kid script a phone in return for a payment, so were doing it in team create. But right now im having this very weird issue where an animation fails to load on the player. I had uploaded the animation, and then the animation would only load on me, but not on the other kid that i was helping. Then we tried to fix this by letting him upload the animation, but then we had the exact same problem, where i couldnt use the animation. We tried testing in a normal server, and then the animation would load on neither of us. The code looks something like this:

local animation = nil


script.Parent.Click.ClickDetector.MouseClick:connect(function(plr)
	if (plr.Character.Head.Position - script.Parent.Main.Position).Magnitude < 5 then	
			animation = plr.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Calling)
			animation:Play()
	else
		if animation then
			animation:Stop()
		end
		animation = nil
	end
end)

In the original full code everything works as intended, its just that the animation wont load. So i dont think that its something to do with my code.

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An error message would be helpful. It could be because the other person doesn’t have permissions to use the animation, the animation was moderated, or the other person’s Roblox cache is broken and needs to be cleared. I’m leaning towards the first one.

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I am getting this error in client log. but in server log it is the same error

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You said that your assets don’t load for you on an online server, right? Try closing all instances of studio and deleting C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Temp\Roblox (your Roblox cache) and see if that fixes thae problem for you. If it works for you, then instruct the other person to delete their cache, too.

Deleting the cache shouldn’t cause any problems, but to be extra-safe, make a backup of it. Make sure to delete the folder named Roblox itself. Don’t just delete its contents.

EDIT: If you not convinced that it’s safe, then try enabling the following setting and restarting studio:

From what I tested, this does almost the exact same thing. Instead of deleting the entire Roblox folder, it just clears out ContentProvider and ContentProviderStudio, which is less overkill than what I suggested.

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well, that didnt work either. :frowning:

Where are you testing this online? Is it at your place or at their place? If you’re testing it on one of the places they own, then try testing the animation on one of your places instead and see if it works. If it works on one of your places, then it’s likely that they don’t have permission to use the animation.

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I just tested it in my own place, with me uploading the animation, and then it worked. so i think it has something to do with team create.

update: when i try to let the other kid do the exact same thing it doesnt work.
update2: we dont know exactly what we did, but it works now. Im going to post about this in the bug section of forunms

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Is the place owned by him or a group?

The animation will only load if the owner of the team create has the animation in his/her inventory. Try and get him/her to export it.

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Yeah, I had this issue. Team create version of my game was owned by me, live version by the group. Had to scramble to reupload every animation on launch when none of it worked!

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If it was a group game it would have to be a group animation, if this is what you mean by groups lol.

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It most likely did not working because the animation was being moderated - which means during that time, only the creator can see it.

As previous users said it could always be because you or the group place don’t own the animation! Make sure the creator of the team create owns the animation.

I would see if the animation works while in play mode, if it does then that means its a valid animation but you don’t own it.

If you don’t own it but a group of yours does you can always take the animation, import it from the group, and export it to your inventory.

(EXTRA - I’d run my animations via a localscript)

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Thank you @Tom_atoes! For 2 days my gun animations wouldn’t load in game but I uploaded them as a group animation and it finally worked. Thank you.

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I tried following all those steps, and it seems my animations still ain’t working. There are no errors in the console, and both the game and the animations are owned by the group. Is there anything wrong I’m doing?

Here is the script:

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

repeat
	wait()
until Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local Tool = script.Parent
local Animations = Tool:WaitForChild("Animations")
local Events = Tool:WaitForChild("Events")
local Sounds = Tool:WaitForChild("Sounds")

--//Sounds
local EquipSound = Sounds.EquipSound
local OverheadSound = Sounds.OverheadSound
local HitSound = Sounds.HitSound
local SwingSound = Sounds.SwingSound

--//Animations
local EquipAnim = Animations.Equip
local Swing1Anim = Animations.Swing1
local Swing2Anim = Animations.Swing2
local MomentumSwingAnim = Animations.MomentumSwing

--//AnimTracks
local EquipTrack = Character.Humanoid:LoadCharacter(EquipAnim)
local Swing1Track = Character.Humanoid:LoadCharacter(Swing1Anim)
local Swing2Track = Character.Humanoid:LoadCharacter(Swing2Anim)
local MomentumSwingTrack = Character.Humanoid:LoadCharacter(MomentumSwingAnim)

local Clicked = false

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	EquipSound:Play()
	EquipTrack:Play()
end)

Tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	if Clicked == false then
		Clicked = true
		SwingSound:Play()
		local Number = math.random(1,2)
		if Number == 1 then
			Swing1Track:Play()
		elseif Number == 2 then
			Swing2Track:Play()
		end
		Clicked = false
	end
end)

I’m not surprised it’s not working due to this part:

local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

repeat
    wait()
until Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

You’re getting the player’s character properly, but then once you have it, you wait for the CharacterAdded signal again, which either won’t happen or already has. Therefore, your script will wait forever, unless you’re planning on spawning the character a second time during that script’s lifetime.

I recommend you remove that second wait, since you already ensured you got the player’s character.

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I see, it worked. Was a simple mistake I didn’t realise although. Thanks!

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