AnimationTrack:Play() plays but no animation is visible

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to play an animation (ID 5341398970) whenever my custom character walks.

  2. What is the issue? The character’s animations do not appear to play, but AnimationTrack.IsPlaying is true.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I have debugged a lot of different parts of my code as to see if I could fix this myself, along with a good amount of googling.

Here is my code. It is located in game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacterScripts.

-- Helperbot3 <3 --
-- Load character
local UIService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
repeat wait() until script.Parent.Humanoid
-- Create animations
local animWalk = Instance.new("Animation")
animWalk.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=5341398970"
animWalk.Name = "Walk"
-- Prevent default animations
if(script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Animate"))then local i = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Animate")i:Destroy()end
script.Parent.ChildAdded:Connect(function (child)if(child.Name == "Animate")then child:Destroy() end end)
-- Load animations
local hmnd = script.Parent.Humanoid
local trackWalk = hmnd:LoadAnimation(animWalk)
trackWalk.Looped = true
-- Other loading
local isWalking = false
function walkUpdate(bool)
	local function fireChange(bool)
		if(bool)then
			print("start")
			trackWalk:Play()
		else
			print("stop")
			trackWalk:Stop()
		end
	end
	if(bool ~= isWalking)then
		isWalking = bool
		fireChange(bool)
	end
end
-- Code
hmnd.Running:Connect(function (speed)
	if(speed >= 1)then
		walkUpdate(true)
	else
		walkUpdate(false)
	end
end)
spawn(function ()
	while(true)do
		if(trackWalk.IsPlaying)then
			print("Playing!")
		else
			print("Not playing!")
		end
		wait(1)
	end
end)

This script will output “start” when it believes the character started walking.
This script will output “stop” when it believes the character stopped walking.
Both above work flawlessly on both PC and Xbox. (Not tested on other devices.)
This script will output “Playing!” every second when AnimationTrack.IsPlaying is true, but if AnimationTrack.IsPlaying is false, it outputs “Not Playing!”

I would simply like my animation track to play (and work) when my character walks. Attached is my world: world.rbxl (99.8 KB)

READ ME!
The Weld script also moves the StarterCharacter model to the proper place. This is not an error caused by this extra script.

#2

It works perfectly but you need to remove all welds in your character and fix your rig i don’t know how to fix the falling rig and the code has no error

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#3

Thanks! Now I just need to figure out what is faulty with the rig. All I did is simply remove the part of the welding script that welds parts together.

Edit: The faulty part was that for some reason, the Motor between the HumanoidRootPart and Torso did not exist.

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