Animation showing up on the server + current client but not other clients

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#1

Howdy!
This is a follow-up to my previous post on animation only working client sided. I’ve come to another problem where the animation is working on the server + the current client but it’s not showing for other clients on the server. When I switch to server perspective, everything is fine but when I switch to another client POV the animation is not showing up. Is there a new change to Animations? I am using a server script for the animation btw.

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/animation-playing-only-locally/1717408/3

Client Side:

Server Side:

#2

Could you provide a video? So we can see it

#3

Client Side:

Server Side

#4
  1. There is might be an issue with anims( due to recent changes).

Or
2) Try to use remotes to fire the sever the animation ID and play it from there.

#5

Why would I need to fire the server when I am already using a server script for the animation? Do I need to use a local script and then fire the server?

#6

Again , there is possibly an issue due to recent changes. But you could try firing a remote from a local script to check/validate the issue if it works or still errors

#7

Also, did you insert the animation on the client or server?

#8

Make sure the animation is being created on the server, and then you could activate it on the client.

#9

Yea, I’ve tried all of your suggestions but I found the problem which I don’t know the solution to.
The animation only stops showing up for other players when the character gets lifted by the balloon.
When I used a potion to make the character bigger which made the character heavy and didn’t lift, the animation worked perfectly fine for all the clients as the character was on the ground. Do you have any suggestions to fixing that?

#10

I think there might be a problem either with Roblox ( due to recent updates and stuff) or with animations particularly

#11

yikes; the only suggestion I can make at glance is its being overridden by the fall animation so perhaps changing anim priority could help?

do you think you can provide current code?

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#12

Here is the server script:

local tool = script.Parent
local Anim = tool:WaitForChild("BalloonAnim")

local track
tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	wait(2)
	track = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Anim)
	track.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
	track:Play()
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	if track then
		track:Stop()
	end
end)
#13

Maybe try with:

	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
		-- need to use animation object for server access

		local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animator")

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/Animator/LoadAnimation
Use animator “for server access”

Example:

local tool = script.Parent
local char = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Character
local humanoid = char.Humanoid
local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animator")
local Anim = tool:WaitForChild("BalloonAnim")

local track
tool.Equipped:Connect(function()

	wait(2)
    track = animator:LoadAnimation(Anim)
	track.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
	track:Play()
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	if track then
		track:Stop()
	end
end)

Edit… fixed the humanoid variable typo on my end.

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