Animation:Play() is not playing, no idea why

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#1

Hi! I’m making a tower defense minigame and right now I’m designing the enemies/monsters. I have a walk animation for my monster but my script won’t play it.

local hum = script.Parent
local par = hum.Parent
local servstor = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local spawnstartanim = hum:WaitForChild("SpawnStartAnim")
local walkanim = ((servstor:WaitForChild("TDAnims")):WaitForChild("Enemy")):WaitForChild("UmbraMonstrumWalk")
local walkanimation = hum:LoadAnimation(walkanim)
walkanimation.Looped = true
spawnstartanim.Event:Connect(function()
	walkanimation:Play()
end)

What’s inside the model:
Screen Shot 2022-09-24 at 1.08.59 PM
What’s under the humanoid:
Screen Shot 2022-09-24 at 1.09.38 PM
None of the parts are anchored and they have cancollide off.
Please explain it clearly too.
Thanks for helping

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#2

Is there any errors or can you try printing the variables that you have and see if any returns nil.

#3 
local hum = script.Parent
local par = hum.Parent
local servstor = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local spawnstartanim = hum:WaitForChild("SpawnStartAnim")
local walkanim = ((servstor:WaitForChild("TDAnims")):WaitForChild("Enemy")):WaitForChild("UmbraMonstrumWalk")
local walkanimation = hum:LoadAnimation(walkanim)
print(walkanimation)
walkanimation.Looped = true
spawnstartanim.Event:Connect(function()
	print("Event fired")
	walkanimation:Play()
end)

Screen Shot 2022-09-24 at 1.19.51 PM
The animation exists and the event has been fired, what’s wrong?

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#4

I mean this worked for me, so it could be something with your remote.

local Humanoid = script.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
local IdleAnim = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(game.ReplicatedStorage.Animations.Idle)
IdleAnim:Play()
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#5

I’m not using a remote event, and I tried using plain old

local hum = script.Parent
local par = hum.Parent
local servstor = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local spawnstartanim = hum:WaitForChild("SpawnStartAnim")
local walkanim = ((servstor:WaitForChild("TDAnims")):WaitForChild("Enemy")):WaitForChild("UmbraMonstrumWalk")
local walkanimation = hum:LoadAnimation(walkanim)
print(walkanimation)
walkanimation.Looped = true
walkanimation:Play()

Everything I need exists

But the monster is still idle
Screen Shot 2022-09-24 at 1.28.56 PM

#6

Oh then that’s my bad, so what is “spawnstartanim”?

#7

It’s a BindableEvent
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/BindableEvent
It’s okay if you can’t find a solution, hopefully someone else can help

#8

No I get it, It’s not hard to work with BindableEvent, and as well it worked for me, so it has to be with your model or an simple mistake.

local Humanoid = script.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
local IdleAnim = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(game.ReplicatedStorage.Animations.Idle)
local BindEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.Event

BindEvent.Event:Connect(function()
	IdleAnim:Play()
end)

BindEvent:Fire()
#9

It’s probably just my game… I’ll give you the place file so you can check if there’s anything wrong
TowerDefenseMinigame.rbxl (114.1 KB)

#10

If anyone will reply, I will be out for a few hours. Thank you :slight_smile:

#11

Nevermind, i dont know what is it yet

#12

It might be the case that you use WaitForChild instead of FindFirstChild, its pretty poor performant in some cases and it might be the one

#13

WaitForChild will yield the thread right? I don’t think that’s the problem because it still prints “Walk”…

#14

What is the current animation priority? Make sure it is beyond these options:

  • action
  • action (1 - 4)
#15 
local hum = script.Parent
local animcontroller = hum:WaitForChild("AnimationController")
local anim = hum:WaitForChild("Walk")
local spawnstartanim = hum:WaitForChild("SpawnStartAnim")
local walkanimation = animcontroller:LoadAnimation(anim)
print(walkanimation)
walkanimation.Looped = true
walkanimation.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action2
walkanimation:Play()

If it’s supposed to be like this, it doesn’t work, no errors

#16 
local hum = script.Parent
local animcontroller = hum:WaitForChild("AnimationController")
local anim = hum:WaitForChild("Walk")
local spawnstartanim = hum:WaitForChild("SpawnStartAnim")
local walkanimation = animcontroller:LoadAnimation(anim)
print(walkanimation)
walkanimation.Looped = true
walkanimation.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action2
print("About to play anim")
walkanimation:Play()
print("a")

Screen Shot 2022-09-25 at 6.47.33 AM

#17

The script will run in server storage, and the animations probably won’t keep playing once the model has been moved from server storage to the workspace. Just a thought.

#18

I did try using bindable events but that didn’t work out. I didn’t try bindable events with the set priority so I’ll try that.

My script does actually run, it’s the :Play() that’s the problem

#19

Yeah, been testing around with the .rbxl place file.

Turns out, when I print out the playing animation tracks on the animator, it says that the walk animation is playing.

local hum = script.Parent
local animcontroller = hum:WaitForChild("Animator")
local anim = hum:WaitForChild("Walk")
local par = hum.Parent
local servstor = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local spawnstartanim = hum:WaitForChild("SpawnStartAnim")
local walkanim = ((servstor:WaitForChild("TDAnims")):WaitForChild("Enemy")):WaitForChild("UmbraMonstrumWalk")
local walkanimation = animcontroller:LoadAnimation(anim)

print(walkanimation)

walkanimation.Looped = true
walkanimation:Play()

print(animcontroller:GetPlayingAnimationTracks())

spawnstartanim.Event:Connect(function()
	print("Event fired")
	walkanimation:Play()
	print(animcontroller:GetPlayingAnimationTracks())
end)

Capture
Weird.
I’ll work on it more.

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#20

Yeah, even constantly printing the table in a while loop doesn’t give me any answers.
It still says that the animations are playing in every table it prints out…