Best way to play an animation in the client from a different client

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to know the best way to do if the player A hits player B, then player B will play an animation

  2. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I’ve tried to add a BoolValue so when player A hits the player B, player B’s BoolValue turns on, running the function using Boolean.Changed. But I want to know if there is a better way of doing it?

I have also tried to play an animation in player B, from player A’s local script but only player A could see the animation being played on player B

#2

Well, with a Touched event, you can get the opponents Humanoid and play the animation there.

p.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
   if (hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")) then
       local hum = hit.Parent.Humanoid --gets humanoid here
       local Animator = hum.Animator --use this to play animations
       --you can play the animation for the other client or player here
   end
end)

This might not be correct but, I’ll do some research and come back to this post.

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#3

You should play player B’s animation on server, same with dealing the damage and such. Otherwise it can get exploitable.

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#4

Dont forget, humanoid:LoadAnimation() is deprecated! Use humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation() instead!

#5

Ah yes, I forgot it was deprecated, Thank you Dr :smiley:

#6

this works but it doesn’t replicate? only player A could see the animation being played on player B

#7

Thank you! I’ll do this instead!