Animation won't play when tool is equipped

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#1

Hello!

I am trying to play an animation when the user activates a tool. It prints to the console “Hello World”, but the animation won’t play.

I then tried putting the script alone and trying to make it run at server start, it worked, then I did that same thing but equipped the tool before the animation was supposed to play and it didn’t play.

How could I fix this?

My code:

function onActivated()
	print("Playing Animation")
	local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	local Animation = Instance.new("Animation", player.Character)
	Animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://myAnimationID"
	local AnimationLoaded = player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation)
	AnimationLoaded:Play()
end

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(onActivated)

I replaced my animation ID with “myAnimationID”.

Thanks in advance

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#2

You need to show your code in order for us to help you. Please edit your thread to include it.

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#3

I edited my post to include my code.

#4

The problem is most likely that you haven’t filled in an actual animation to play:

Animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://myAnimationID"

myAnimationID should be replaced with an actual animation ID.

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#5

There is a real animation ID in there, I just prefered to hide it on my code sample.

#6

But your code says:

I’m guessing this is a typo?

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#7

Basically, it didn’t say “Hello World”, it was just an example text but in the code there was written “Playing Animation”. It’s my habit of telling that code outputs hello world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#8

Is your animation priority higher than Core?

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#9

Since I don’t know alot about animations, here’s a screenshot of the “Animation Priority”image

#10

Try to set it as Movement and then overwrite it.

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#11

That solves my problem! Thanks you alot!

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