Context:
I’m trying to make an ‘ability’ where you press Z, and it looks like you’re still there, continuing whatever it is you’re doing, whether it was standing still or moving in a direction, but that’s actually clone of you doing whatever it was and you were actually teleported backwards a distance and are invisible for a few seconds to deceive others.
I’ve accomplished most of that so far. The issue now is, how do I get the clone to play animations?
What I tried to do was copy code straight from a typical R6 ROBLOX Character’s Animate LocalScript, which mostly works, except the code is one big blob (like 100 lines). I’m sure there’s a cleaner way of doing it, but animations are my biggest weakness. And also I don’t want to keep working on this when it looks like that.
Here is the giant code blob:
local currentAnim = ""
local currentAnimInstance = nil
local currentAnimTrack = nil
local currentAnimKeyframeHandler = nil
local currentAnimSpeed = 1.0
local animTable = {}
local animNames = {
idle = {
{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=180435571", weight = 9 },
{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=180435792", weight = 1 }
},
}
local emoteNames = { wave = false, point = false, dance1 = true, dance2 = true, dance3 = true, laugh = false, cheer = false}
function configureAnimationSet(name, fileList)
if (animTable[name] ~= nil) then
for _, connection in pairs(animTable[name].connections) do
connection:disconnect()
end
end
animTable[name] = {}
animTable[name].count = 0
animTable[name].totalWeight = 0
animTable[name].connections = {}
-- check for config values
local config = script:FindFirstChild(name)
if (config ~= nil) then
-- print("Loading anims " .. name)
table.insert(animTable[name].connections, config.ChildAdded:connect(function(child) configureAnimationSet(name, fileList) end))
table.insert(animTable[name].connections, config.ChildRemoved:connect(function(child) configureAnimationSet(name, fileList) end))
local idx = 1
for _, childPart in pairs(config:GetChildren()) do
if (childPart:IsA("Animation")) then
table.insert(animTable[name].connections, childPart.Changed:connect(function(property) configureAnimationSet(name, fileList) end))
animTable[name][idx] = {}
animTable[name][idx].anim = childPart
local weightObject = childPart:FindFirstChild("Weight")
if (weightObject == nil) then
animTable[name][idx].weight = 1
else
animTable[name][idx].weight = weightObject.Value
end
animTable[name].count = animTable[name].count + 1
animTable[name].totalWeight = animTable[name].totalWeight + animTable[name][idx].weight
-- print(name .. " [" .. idx .. "] " .. animTable[name][idx].anim.AnimationId .. " (" .. animTable[name][idx].weight .. ")")
idx = idx + 1
end
end
end
-- fallback to defaults
if (animTable[name].count <= 0) then
for idx, anim in pairs(fileList) do
animTable[name][idx] = {}
animTable[name][idx].anim = Instance.new("Animation")
animTable[name][idx].anim.Name = name
animTable[name][idx].anim.AnimationId = anim.id
animTable[name][idx].weight = anim.weight
animTable[name].count = animTable[name].count + 1
animTable[name].totalWeight = animTable[name].totalWeight + anim.weight
-- print(name .. " [" .. idx .. "] " .. anim.id .. " (" .. anim.weight .. ")")
end
end
end
function setAnimationSpeed(speed)
if speed ~= currentAnimSpeed then
currentAnimSpeed = speed
currentAnimTrack:AdjustSpeed(currentAnimSpeed)
end
end
function keyFrameReachedFunc(frameName)
if (frameName == "End") then
local repeatAnim = currentAnim
-- return to idle if finishing an emote
if (emoteNames[repeatAnim] ~= nil and emoteNames[repeatAnim] == false) then
repeatAnim = "idle"
end
local animSpeed = currentAnimSpeed
--playAnimation(repeatAnim, 0.0, Humanoid)
setAnimationSpeed(animSpeed)
end
end
function playAnimation(animName, transitionTime, humanoid)
local roll = math.random(1, animTable[animName].totalWeight)
local origRoll = roll
local idx = 1
while (roll > animTable[animName][idx].weight) do
roll = roll - animTable[animName][idx].weight
idx = idx + 1
end
-- print(animName .. " " .. idx .. " [" .. origRoll .. "]")
local anim = animTable[animName][idx].anim
-- switch animation
if (anim ~= currentAnimInstance) then
if (currentAnimTrack ~= nil) then
currentAnimTrack:Stop(transitionTime)
currentAnimTrack:Destroy()
end
currentAnimSpeed = 1.0
-- load it to the humanoid; get AnimationTrack
currentAnimTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
currentAnimTrack.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Core
-- play the animation
currentAnimTrack:Play(transitionTime)
currentAnim = animName
currentAnimInstance = anim
-- set up keyframe name triggers
if (currentAnimKeyframeHandler ~= nil) then
currentAnimKeyframeHandler:disconnect()
end
currentAnimKeyframeHandler = currentAnimTrack.KeyframeReached:connect(keyFrameReachedFunc)
end
end
for name, fileList in pairs(animNames) do
configureAnimationSet(name, fileList)
end