AnimationTrack limit of 256

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I’m trying to fix a bug that happens after swinging a sword over 256 times. About halfway through a dungeon, if you’ve been swinging it enough, you’ll stop being able to.

I get an error that says:
AnimationTrack limit of 256 tracks for one animator exceed. No new tracks will be played.
I know the issue, but not how to fix it.

I’ve already tried a couple things so far to fix it, I’ll go in order.

  • Making a StarterCharacterScript that deletes and replaces the animator every 3 minutes or so, the problem is that it would make the tool idle animation be messed up.

  • Making something that stopped all playing animations and then replaced the animator, same issue.

  • Changing the toolscript to load the animation once in the script, with something looking like this:

for i, v in pairs(script:GetChildren()) do
    if v.Name == "ANIM" then
        table.insert(ANIMS,1,"animation")
        ANIMS[1] = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(v)
    end
end

-- The rest of the script that does stuff here, using ANIMS[num]:Play() to play it.

Problem with this is that I got the same error after a bit.

I’ve probably done a couple more things to see if it worked, but for now I can’t think of any. If you know how to solve this, please tell me. Anyways, thanks in advance.

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The solution code you posted should work if you’re using it properly. Caching the loaded animations is the solution.

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The code doesn’t work though, so I’m not sure what will.

4

Can you post the entire script?

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I found the problem and tried to fix it, (the problem was that I had a second animation loading itself), but when trying to load it at the start, the script timed out. I think I might know how to fix this one, though.

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You can play the same animation more than once. Instead of making a new animation track each time you want to do an attack, you can replay it by using the :Play() method again. This is definitely way better than replacing the animator constantly.

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