Animations will now give an error whenever an animation using an rbxassetid:// id is loaded.
“Usage error: LoadAnimation with an embedded Animation can only be used in Solo mode. For network games use an Animation with a web URL”
At the time, this doesn’t even appear to make sense to the developer. The developer is using an uploaded animation and a commonly used and easier way to link to it. This is both unexpected and in my case, game-breaking.
For anyone else having this problem, you can switch your animations to http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id= format to make them work again.
People were able to load animations made by other people through rbxassetid://, even if the animation wasn’t public, so ROBLOX disabled usage of rbxassetid:// in animations.
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I don’t see problem with using others’ animations, they are planning to have them free Soon™ anyway. [/quote]
If you didn’t make them, you shouldn’t be using them – more often than not, animations made by other people would be used in games without the creator’s consent, and the owner of that place would profit off of the hard work someone else put into the animation. ROBLOX is dragging their feet with public animations for god knows what reason, but they made the right call preventing users from using animations not made by them.
We introduced an optimization to make animation smoother, unfortunately this was a corner case we’ve over looked. You shouldn’t need to make any adjustments to the url.
We’ll disable it (on new servers) for now and try again in the new year.
