Animation won't play using a LocalScript

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#2

Try loading them on the Humanoid, I believe documentation states it will automatically create a Animator to load the animations on.

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#3

Still doesn’t work for me. No error messages or anything and the animation still doesn’t play.

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#4

Local scripts have to be a descendant of the client’s player object or the client’s character. Because it is in its own object, the scripts will not work in this situation.

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#5

But it still runs and reacts to the OnClientEvent. Is it just the animations that won’t work if it’s not a descendant of the player?

#6

I was wrong, local scripts have to be a descendant of the client’s player object or the client’s character, but they also work in ReplicatedFirst. Your script is probably still active in ReplicatedFirst instead of inside the workspace.

#7

Did you ensure the animation priority is high enough and if the remote events are actually being ran?

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#8

There is already an animator inside the humanoid but you might have to use a waitforchild to get it.

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local AnimationsFolder = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Animations")
local Idle = AnimationsFolder.IdleAnim
local Walk = AnimationsFolder.WalkAnim
local Wave = AnimationsFolder.WaveAnim

local char = script.Parent
local Humanoid = char.Humanoid

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local PlayNPCWave = ReplicatedStorage.PlayNPCWave

local animator = humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")

local IdleAnim = animator:LoadAnimation(Idle)
local WalkAnim = animator:LoadAnimation(Walk)
local WaveAnim = animator:LoadAnimation(Wave)

IdleAnim.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Idle
WalkAnim.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Movement


PlayNPCWave.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	IdleAnim:Play()
	
end)
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#9

Yes, the priority is high enough, we also tried with the Action4 priority but no change in result. The remote event works

#10

It still didn’t work unfortunately.

#11

did any errors appear in the console?

#12

Nope, there’s no error in the console at all

#13

did you check to make sure that the line even runs with a print or something?

#14

Yes we did try printing and it works!

#15

Try running a loop on the animator to check if it reads that a animation actually plays. That will better help you.

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#16

i’m unsure how to do that. what do you mean?

#17

I really haven’t tried it, but its along the lines of this:

local Animator = script:FindFirstChildOfClass('Animator') --Change This
for __, AnimationTrack in pairs(Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
	print(__, AnimationTrack)
end
#18

There’s one random animation that pops up just when I use the LocalScript to play, “Animation1” or “Animation2”. But when I play it in a server script it’s just the IdleAnimation that is playing.

#19

Most likely a replication issue? Try running the animation on the server just to see.

#20

Yes, the animation runs on the server, just not on the client at all. The thing is that I need to be able to use the .IsPlaying but that doesn’t replicate in a server script.

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#21

First of all, please do not try playing the animations via Humanoid:LoadAnimation() and AnimationController:LoadAnimation as it can lead to replication issues. That’s why both methods were deprecated years ago, as stated here:

I recommend you to refrain to using the Animator included in the characters Humanoid, it’s there for a reason.

And there might also be conflicts because now you have 2 Animators as you create a new one and put it in the exact same path of the already auto-generated one. Please try loading it on the pre generated animator and tell us what’s happening exactly.