Animation Not Playing for Player?

[legoinventor9 (Awdiow)]

Hi Devs. I’ve recently been experimenting with making animations that involve the actual player and I came across a bug I can’t seem to fix.

Whenever I step into the part it’s supposed to play an animation on the player and on the rig. but it only really plays it on the rig.

Here is my script I’ve tried (Yes I know I need to set the cframe of the player but I was going to do that later.)

local activationpart = game.Workspace.TouchPart

activationpart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
	local char = hit.Parent
	local hum = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

	local npc = game.Workspace.Rig
	local npchum = npc:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

	local anim1 = hum:LoadAnimation(game.ServerStorage.Exports.PlayerSweep)
	local anim2 = npchum:LoadAnimation(game.ServerStorage.Exports.NpcSweep)

	anim1:Play()
	anim2:Play()
	end
end)

I’m following this tutorial
How to animate 2 characters and play it in-game like a takedown animation

But I’m also on the older version of moon animator.

(Don’t know if that helps but whatever)

Thanks!!!

[bro_proxiomFun (Proxiom)]

local activationPart = game.Workspace.TouchPart
local npc = game.Workspace.Rig

local playerSweepAnimation = game.ServerStorage.Exports.PlayerSweep
local npcSweepAnimation = game.ServerStorage.Exports.NpcSweep

activationPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if not (hit.Parent and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")) then return end
	
	local character = hit.Parent
	local humanoid: Humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local playerAnimator: Animator = humanoid.Animator

	local npcHumanoid: Humanoid = npc:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if not npcHumanoid then return end
	local npcAnimator: Animator = npcHumanoid:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animator")
	if not npcAnimator then npcAnimator = Instance.new("Animator", npcHumanoid) end
	

	playerAnimator:LoadAnimation(playerSweepAnimation):Play()
	npcAnimator:LoadAnimation(npcSweepAnimation):Play()
end)

[legoinventor9 (Awdiow)]

I just says Attempt to index nil with ‘animator’

[bro_proxiomFun (Proxiom)]

here: local playerAnimator: Animator = humanoid.Animator?

[legoinventor9 (Awdiow)]

Yes that is where im getting the error message

[Mythicalfiremarvel (Mythic)]

What did you set as the animation priority in these animations?

[QuadR0bert]

First, I would recommend you load animations and storing them in a table when character loads, so you don’t have any delays when you need to play an animation.
here’s an example:

local LoadedAnimations = {}

local Animations = replicatedstorage.Animations -- folder with animation instances

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
      Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
            local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
            local Animator = Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
            for AnimationName, AnimationTrack in LoadedAnimations do
                  AnimationTrack:Destroy()
                  LoadedAnimations[AnimationName] = nil
            end
            for _, Animation in Animations:GetChildren() do
                  if Animation:IsA("Animation") then
                        LoadedAnimations[Animation.Name] = Animator:LoadAnimation(Animation)
                  end
            end
      end)
end)

Then you should just fire the client or use bindable events to run animations with

LoadedAnimations[AnimationName]:Play()

Or, you could make a module which would let you quickly access player’s animations, but its a bit different.

[QuadR0bert]

also, you can do the same for the NPCs.

[legoinventor9 (Awdiow)]

figured it out by myself! I had an r6 animation but wasn’t on r6