Animation not replicating correctly

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Hey,
Im working on a game and we’re making animations for the characters. The thing is that whenever i try to replicate the animations into the actual game, the animations don’t load propperly and they do weird things such as minimizing the movement of the animation, here’s an example:

EXPECTED ANIMATION TO PLAY:

ANIMATION PLAYING IN GAME:

This is the script i use to replicate animations (Inside a LocalScript inside StarterPlayerScripts)

local function SetAnim(object, animName)
	local humanoid = object:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local animationsFolder = object:WaitForChild("Animations")
	if humanoid and animationsFolder then
		local animationObject = animationsFolder:WaitForChild(animName)

		if animationObject then
			local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChild("Animator")

			local playingTracks = animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()
			for i, track in pairs(playingTracks) do
				if track.Name == animName then
					return track
				end
			end

			local animationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(animationObject)

			return animationTrack
		end
	end
end

local function PlayAnim(object, animName)
	local animationTrack = SetAnim(object, animName)
	if animationTrack then
		animationTrack:Play()
	else
		warn("Animation Track Corrupted Or Does Not Exist")
	end
end

workspace.Game.Towers.ChildAdded:Connect(function(object)
	PlayAnim(object, "Idle")
end)

animateTowerEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(tower, animName)
	PlayAnim(tower, animName)
end)
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I don’t know where in your code that is but it seems to me that the animation is played multiple times. I have had issues like this multiple times and I recognize it. For some reason when you run the animation, it runs multiple times. I suggest troubleshooting at that part of the script

3

Nope, im checking it rn using a print every time it plays an animation and it only plays it once

4

can you post the code where the animateTowerEvent is fired?

5

ModuleScript inside Script inside ServerScriptService

function tower.Attack(newTower, player)
	local config = newTower:FindFirstChild("Config")
	local target = tower.FindTarget(newTower, config.Range.Value, config.TargetMode.Value)
	
	if target and target:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and target.Humanoid.Health > 0 then
		local targetPosition = target.HumanoidRootPart.Position
		
		local targetCFrame = CFrame.lookAt(
			newTower.HumanoidRootPart.Position,
			Vector3.new(targetPosition.X, newTower.HumanoidRootPart.BodyGyro.CFrame.Y, targetPosition.Z))
		newTower.HumanoidRootPart.BodyGyro.CFrame = targetCFrame
		
		animateTowerEvent:FireAllClients(newTower, "Attack", target) -- Fires Event
    end
	
	task.wait(0.1)
	if newTower and newTower.Parent then
		tower.Attack(newTower, player)
	end
end
6

In the clip it seems like the tower is dealing 16 points of damage, check if thats what you intended. I honestly can’t figure this out it seems like it should be working.

I don’t however really understand the purpose of:

task.wait(0.1)
if newTower and newTower.Parent then
	tower.Attack(newTower, player)
end

I’m guessing it works as a kind of loop to check if you can attack again? But why does it fire every 0.1 seconds? Wouldn’t that make the tower attack 10 times a second?

7

What that does is that loops it loops every 0.1 secs and checks if a enemy is near, if it is near, then it attacks and the loop stops till the attack is completed, but that has nothing to do with my animations not working