Animation not playing

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#1

Hi there, I’m making a tool to play an animation on tool activation, how should I do that? I tried using Humanoid:LoadAnimation, it worked in studio, not in the actual game.

Script;

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		local anim = script.Animation
		
		script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
			local track = char.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
			track:Play()
			script.Parent.Bites.Value = script.Parent.Bites.Value + 1
			if script.Parent.Bites.Value >= 6 then
				script.Parent:Destroy()
			end
		end)
	end)
end)

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#2

Try only use that part of the script

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#3

I need a reference to the player’s character somehow for this to work. Since it’s a ServerScript I can’t get it from the LocalPlayer, which is why the CharacterAdded and PlayerAdded events was used.

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#4

only works in studio?

idrk what the problem is but there may be another animation overriding the activation one
try and see if that’s the problem

#5

Don’t use Humanoid:LoadAnimation(), it’s deprecated. Instead, there’s something called an Animator under the player character’s Humanoid, use that to load animation.

#6

Calling the CharacterAdded event is not the right way to get the player’s character for a script that is inside a tool. Since Tool.Activated runs when the player clicks/taps while their weapon is equipped, you can easily get the character because whichever tool you equip, the tool goes inside the character.

Here is your fixed code:

local Tool = script.Parent
local Bites = Tool:WaitForChild("Bites")
local anim = script:WaitForChild("Animation")

Tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	local char = Tool.Parent
	local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

	local track = hum.Animator:LoadAnimation(anim)
	track:Play()
	
	Bites.Value += 1
	if Bites.Value >= 6 then
		Tool:Destroy()
	end
end)