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1

Im trying to spawn orbs behind the player and right now I have completed that step using AlignPosition and AlignOrientation. The problem comes when trying to play an animation that makes the orbs move back and forth. I tried cloning the animation but it didn’t work. I don’t have any clue where to go from here so if you have any ideas lmk.

local Players = script.Parent.Parent.Parent
local lcPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
local char = lcPlayer.CharacterAdded:wait()
local humr = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

local bob = script.Animation







local function Orb(x,y) --Spawns orb and moves it to head/ Might want to change to humanoidrootpart
	
	
	
	local orb = Instance.new("Part") --Instances Part
	orb.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
	orb.CanCollide = false        --If collide on the orb will push the user
	orb.Size = Vector3.new(1,1,1)
	orb.Anchored = false
	orb.Parent = humr
	orb.CFrame = humr.CFrame	
	orb.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic	--makes part smooth
	
	local humanoid = Instance.new("Humanoid")
	humanoid.Parent = orb
	
	local bobClone = bob:Clone()
		bobClone.Parent = orb	
	local AnimationTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(bobClone)
	if 1 ==1 then
		print("Yeet")
	AnimationTrack:Play()
	end
	local orbAttatchment = Instance.new("Attachment",orb) --Attatchment is in orb
	
	
	local humrAttatchment = Instance.new("Attachment",humr) --Attatchment in head
			humrAttatchment.Position = humrAttatchment.Position + Vector3.new(x,y,2)
	

	local alignOr = Instance.new("AlignOrientation",orb) -- I think it is useless bc its a ball and doesn't really matter if it rotates
		alignOr.MaxTorque = 10000
		alignOr.Attachment0 = orbAttatchment
		alignOr.Attachment1 = humrAttatchment	
	
	local alignPos = Instance.new("AlignPosition",orb) --Moves orb to the head attatchment
		alignPos.Attachment0 = orbAttatchment
		alignPos.Attachment1 = humrAttatchment
		

end


Orb(1,-1)
Orb(0,1)
2

I’m pretty certain you’re supposed to be using the Humanoid.Animator for loading the animation.

3

No, Hes loading the animation correctly

4

First of all, I would recommend using a “animation controller” instead of a humanoid for non player models. The problem could be that your animation priority is not action. Go into your animation editor and click the three dots(" . . . ") . Then Click “Set Animation priority” and change it to action.

Edit: Looking at your use case, dont use an animation, Tweening Is way more easier and better for your case.

5

So I don’t think that a tween will work well because im having the orb go in more of an arc form instead of back and forth as the msg implied. After changing the animation priority I tried using the animation controller but it didn’t work. This is what the code looked like after adding the animation controller

local lcPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
local char = lcPlayer.CharacterAdded:wait()
local humr = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

local bob = script.Animation







local function Orb(x,y) --Spawns orb and moves it to head/ Might want to change to humanoidrootpart
	
	
	
	local orb = Instance.new("Part") --Instances Part
	orb.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
	orb.CanCollide = false        --If collide on the orb will push the user
	orb.Size = Vector3.new(1,1,1)
	orb.Anchored = false
	orb.Parent = humr
	orb.CFrame = humr.CFrame	
	orb.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic	--makes part smooth
	
	local animCon = Instance.new("AnimationController")
	animCon.Parent = orb
	

	local AnimationTrack = animCon:LoadAnimation(bob)
	

	local orbAttatchment = Instance.new("Attachment",orb) --Attatchment is in orb
	
	
	local humrAttatchment = Instance.new("Attachment",humr) --Attatchment in head
			humrAttatchment.Position = humrAttatchment.Position + Vector3.new(x,y,2)
	

	local alignOr = Instance.new("AlignOrientation",orb) -- I think it is useless bc its a ball and doesn't really matter if it rotates
		alignOr.MaxTorque = 10000
		alignOr.Attachment0 = orbAttatchment
		alignOr.Attachment1 = humrAttatchment	
	
	local alignPos = Instance.new("AlignPosition",orb) --Moves orb to the head attatchment
		alignPos.Attachment0 = orbAttatchment
		alignPos.Attachment1 = humrAttatchment
		
	
		AnimationTrack:Play()	
end


Orb(1,-1)
Orb(0,1)

there aren’t any errors as well.

6

A tween will work even if its an arc, just make a calculation and tween to each position until you reach the end position. Are there any errors with your current code?

7

No there aren’t any errors with the code which is strange. I’ll try the tween but if u can think of the reason this not working lmk