Animation Play on Touch

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#1

I’m trying to make it where when a part is touched by a player, the player does an animation. In this case when a player touches a piece of food I want them to do an eating animation. I have a script in ServerScriptService with an animation attached to it. I want too make it where whenever you touch a part in workspace, the script in ServerScriptService will activate and play the animation. I was wondering if this is possible or if it isn’t. Thanks

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#2

Try this code out:

local part = workspace.Food
local debounce = false

part.Touched:Connect(function(toucher)
	if toucher.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		local hum = toucher.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") 
		local animator = hum:WaitForChild("Animator")
		
		if animator then
			if debounce == true then
				return
			end

			debounce = true
			
			local anim = Instance.new("Animation") do
				anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://9434761803"
			end
			
			local load = animator:LoadAnimation(anim) do
				load:Play()
				
				load.Stopped:Connect(function()
					debounce = false
				end)
			end
		end
	end
end)
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#3

It works thank you but the animation doesn’t seem to ever stop.

Also is there a way to link the script to parts inside a model? So whenever the player touches the parts inside the model the animation plays?

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Thanks for your help

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#4 
for i, v in pairs(food:GetChildren()) do
    v.Touched:Connect(function()
    --stuff
    end)
end
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#5

Where is that supposed to go in the script?

#6

It replaces this function down here… I added a loop to loop through all the parts

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#7

Oh thanks it does work but the animation never stops playing which is the only problem I have at the moment.

#8

Add this in the code:

load.Stopped:Connect(function()
    task.wait(3)
	debounce = false
end)
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#9

Here is what I’m using right now but the animation is still not stopping after 3 seconds.

local part = workspace.Food
local debounce = false

for i, v in pairs(part:GetChildren()) do
v.Touched:Connect(function(toucher)
	if toucher.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		local hum = toucher.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") 
		local animator = hum:WaitForChild("Animator")

		if animator then
			if debounce == true then
				return
			end

			debounce = true

			local anim = Instance.new("Animation") do
				anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://9890262335"
			end

			local load = animator:LoadAnimation(anim) do
				load:Play()

					load.Stopped:Connect(function()
						task.wait(3)
						debounce = false
					end)
				end
		    end
	    end
    end)
end
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#10

Is the animation looped? You need to explicitly call the :Stop() method on/through it in order for the animation to stop.

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/AnimationTrack/Stop

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#11

I tried making it stop by using “anim:Stop()” but it just kept playing the animation.

#12

Because you’re creating a new animation object and thus a new animation track each time the part’s ‘Touched’ signal fires, create 1 of each.