Best way of changing animation based on the tool

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I’m hoping this is the right topic for this.

I’m working on a small game and want to create different animations for various tools. For example, if I equip a sword, the character’s idle, walking, and other animations should change.

What’s the most effective way to achieve this? I’ve tried one method before where I simply copied the animation script and assigned different animations to each. Then, I used a script on the tool itself to enable one animation script and disable the other. However, I’m wondering if there’s a more efficient or organized approach.

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Swap out the characters animations 2 ways

Either change the IDS in the animate script by setting them this way

Character.Animate.Idle = "Your ID"

Or by disabling the animate script and inside the tool, track when the characters state changes from walking to idle and play the corresponding animations.

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So like, as soon the tool is equiped i change the id’s of every animation i want to change, right?

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Yes, you can do this by hooking a function onto the Humanoid:ToolEquipped event.

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Ok, ill try this method and let you know, thx for the answer

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ok yeah it worked, tysm, you just saved me from a bunch of useless code and copypaste.

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your welcome!

also if possible, could you mark me as the solution? I am trying to get my solutions up, and it helps others know that your problem is already solved.

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sure, just quick question, wasn’t there a way to like update the player so it plays the animations instantly? rn the animations id’s updates but not the actual animation until i move and stop again (for the idle)

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For idle, you can just load the animation to the player using Humanoid:LoadAnimation("rbxassetid://YourID") then play it!

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oh ok, ill try it asap, again thx for the help.

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