Animations break on death?

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    An animation for my pathfinding system
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    Whenever the ai kills the player, the animations for the ai do not reset back to their walking but whenever i make it so the rig wont kill the player, aka putting them on 1 hp it turns it back to the walking animation.

pretty long script but line 151 (where it states "print(“RAN)”) is where this issue is happening (the print statement does run)

local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local ps = game:GetService("PathfindingService")

local pathfind = {}

local VISION_RANGE = 40
local ATTACK_RANGE = 15
local KILL_RANGE = 3.5
local target = nil
local navigating = false
local track
local destinationReached = nil
local db = false
	
	local function resetMonster(monster)
		monster.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 8
		if track then
			db = false
			track:Stop()
		end
	end
	
	local function GetRandomPath(monster)
		local waypoints = workspace.PatrolPoints:GetChildren()
		local randomPoint = waypoints[math.random(#waypoints)]
		
		local path = ps:CreatePath({
			AgentRadius = 2,
			AgentHeight = 4,
			AgentCanJump = false,
			Costs = {
				noMonsterAllowed = math.huge
			},
		})
		
		local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
			path:ComputeAsync(monster.PrimaryPart.Position, randomPoint.Position)
		end)
		
		if success and path.Status == Enum.PathStatus.Success then
			return path:GetWaypoints()
		else
			local reverse = (monster.PrimaryPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,0,3)).Position
			monster.Humanoid:MoveTo(reverse)
			task.wait(.1)
			return false
		end
	end
	
	local function endNavigation()
		navigating = false
		if destinationReached then
			destinationReached:Disconnect()
		end
	end
	
	local function startNavigation(monster)
		navigating = true
		local waypoints = GetRandomPath(monster)
		if not waypoints then
			endNavigation()
			return
		end
		
		local waypointIndex = 2
		destinationReached = monster.Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Connect(function(reached)
			if reached and waypointIndex < #waypoints then
				waypointIndex += 1
				monster.Humanoid:MoveTo(waypoints[waypointIndex].Position)
			else
				endNavigation()
			end
		end)
		monster.Humanoid:MoveTo(waypoints[waypointIndex].Position)
	end
	
	local function GetTarget(monster)
		local maxDistance = VISION_RANGE
		local newTarget = nil
		
		for i, player in game.Players:GetPlayers() do
			local char = player.Character
			if not char then continue end
			local root = char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
			local hum = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			if not root or not hum or hum.Health <= 0 then 
				resetMonster(monster)
			continue end
			
			local origin = monster.Head.Position
			local direction = root.Position - origin
			local distance = direction.Magnitude
			-- if farther away from vision then dont care
			if distance > VISION_RANGE then 
				resetMonster(monster)
			continue end
			
			if distance > ATTACK_RANGE then
				local fov = direction.Unit:Dot(monster.Head.CFrame.LookVector)
				-- if behind monster or not facing them.
				if fov < 0.5 then 
				continue end
			end
			
			local anim = monster.Animation 
			track = monster.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
			monster.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 15
			if db == false then
				db = true
				track:Play()
			end
			
			
			local result = workspace:Raycast(origin, direction * VISION_RANGE)
			-- something goes wrong
			if not result or not result.Instance then 
				resetMonster(monster)
			continue end
			-- if hit a wall
			if not result.Instance:FindFirstAncestor(char.Name) then
				resetMonster(monster)
			continue end
			
			if distance < maxDistance then
				maxDistance = distance
				newTarget = char
			end
		end
		return newTarget, maxDistance
	end
	
	function pathfind.New()
		local monster = rs.Enemy.Skinwalker:Clone()
		local spawnPos = workspace.MonsterSpawnPos.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,0,0)
		monster:PivotTo(spawnPos)
		monster.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 10
		monster.Parent = workspace
		monster.PrimaryPart:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
		
		local distance
		navigating = false
		
		task.spawn(function()
			while true do
				target, distance = GetTarget(monster)
				if target then
					monster.Humanoid:MoveTo(target.PrimaryPart.Position)
					if distance < KILL_RANGE then
						print("RAN")
						track:Stop()
						resetMonster(monster)
						target.Humanoid.Health = 0
					end
				elseif not navigating then
					db = false
					resetMonster(monster)
					
					startNavigation(monster)
				end
				
				task.wait()
			end
			
			endNavigation()
			monster:Destroy()
		end)
	end
return pathfind
2

Have you tried clearing the last target whenever the AI kills the player? That might be the issue.

3

I think of setting target.Humanoid.Health to zero before the resetMonster().

Or just make animations into locals and use them when needed and stop when needed

maxdistance is changed to distance’s value ?

4

I have tried that but the issue still persists for some reason, the walk speed resets to normal but the animation just keeps playing

5

This sadly still doesn’t work for some reason, the animate script inside of the rig is a server script but using roblox’s runcontext to run it as a client, this may cause the issue but I’m unsure because I’ve never messed with runcontext before, I have also found a solution which is to enable and disable the animate script even though it’s not the most practical.