Animation gives me 'Failed to load animation with sanitized ID' error even though it's owned by the group, and being played in the group-owned game

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#1

So I’m working on a game with my friends and I want to implement a looped waving animation my friend made onto a simple character rig. He sent me the .rbxanim file which I imported to my rig and subsequently uploaded to the group that owns the game.

I have a script located in the rig that is supposed to loop the animation once the server starts. Here is said script:

local animation = script:WaitForChild('Idle')

local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild('Humanoid')

local idle = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)

idle:play()

idle.Looped = true

(This script’s parent is the Model, and the animation (‘Idle’) is its child)

This gives me the infamous ‘Failed to load animation with sanitized ID’ error; I’ve skimmed through many many forums and most of them tell me that it means I don’t own the animation. This shouldn’t be an issue, however, as I’ve uploaded the animation to the group and I am a member/developer in said group who uploaded it there in the first place.

Another solution I read is that sometimes the sanitization process just takes a while, which is understandable. However, I tried using another animation I uploaded to the same group 11 days ago… same error.

All of this has been happening in a game that is owned by the group, so ideally there wouldn’t be any issues regarding ownership… and I’m assuming it doesn’t have anything to do with time/waiting after trying the older animation either.

Here’s a video demonstration of the error. I’m kind of stumped. Any solutions would be greatly appreciated!

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#2

During playtesting in roblox studio, it will not load the animation; however when you publish and save it- and then play the game, it’ll play your animation <^_^>
I’m assuming that’s the case, I did have a similar issue before but I hope this solution works, if not then I’d gladly help!

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#3

Are you the group owner or do you have full asset permissions?

Roblox has a bug with group-owned animations in studio otherwise.

#4

Thank you for responding! It seems you’re right, the waving animation didn’t seem to play when I published and played on Roblox but I then tried putting the older animation I talked about which worked. I’m assuming maybe in this case the scenario just hasn’t been sanitized yet… I think I’ll just wait another day or two. Not sure how long Roblox takes to sanitize animations but either way thank you again!

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#5

I’m not the owner of the group but I’m pretty sure I have full asset permissions. This specific situation looks like it’s arising because of the bug however. Thanks though!

#6

Try setting the asset publishing perm and it’ll also work in studio, not just in-game.

#7

Update:

It’s been 2 days now since I uploaded that animation and it still doesn’t seem to work. Something I noticed is that that walking animation that DOES work was made using the native Roblox animation editor, whereas the ones that my friend made that I imported via the Blender Animations plugin were made in Blender. Ideally there shouldn’t really be an issue but I’m assuming that probably threw a wrench in this whole thing.

I understand that this might be outside the scope of the Roblox forum so I’m not gonna ask for further help but thanks to everyone who responded! You’re a big help :]

#8

I found out the solution! For anyone who’s using Blender Animations to import animations to Roblox, MAKE SURE you upload it through a Moon Animator rig. I don’t know much about Moon Animator or Blender since I’m not an animator and I didn’t realize what it required. My friend who has it uploaded it through there and it worked… finally. :sob: