Animator getting funky

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#1 
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

game.ReplicatedStorage.playanim.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChild("Animator")
	local downed = animator:LoadAnimation(script.Dead.AnimationId)
	downed:Play()
	wait(downed.Length)
	game.ReplicatedStorage.unanchor:FireServer()
	downed:Stop()
end)

then i got:
Unable to cast value to object

#2

Roblox should tell you at which line the error happened

#3

i believe the issue is because you loaded an animation by an animation id, instead of loading it from an animation instance
so change this

local downed = animator:LoadAnimation(script.Dead.AnimationId)

to this

local downed = animator:LoadAnimation(script.Dead)
#4

now it returns no error
but the animation still wont play

#5

Do you mind providing the unanchor script? It seems like that’s causing an issue.

#6

then the problem might be downed.Length, you can instead replace the wait with animation.Stopped:Wait() or with animation.Ended:Wait()

#7 
game.ReplicatedStorage.unanchor.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
								human.Parent.HumanoidRootPart.Anchored = false
								human.AutoRotate = true
							end)

this one worked tho

#8

nope, still nothing happened
the animationID is also valid

#9

i remade the whole script so that it will work but now there are a lot more problem