Animation Not Playing for Player?

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#1

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.

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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!!!

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#2 
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)
#3

I just says Attempt to index nil with ‘animator’

#4

here: local playerAnimator: Animator = humanoid.Animator?

#5

Yes that is where im getting the error message

#6

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

#7

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.

#8

also, you can do the same for the NPCs.

#9

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