Crouching mechanic

[ItIsRecoil (Recoil)]

Hi guys.

So basically I made an animation in which the character smoothly goes from standing and then into a crouching stance.

Now I made a very simple script that plays the animation when the crouch button is pressed but I don’t know how to get the character to stay in a crouched stance after that animation is finished playing.
(What happens at the moment: crouch animation plays and then character stands back up)

So I was hoping for some pointers that would help me understand where to start.

I also would like to mention (in case it’s important) that I’m using a custom mesh character with bones

[Scottifly]

What is your idle animation? Does it play as in (or out) as the player crouches, then switches to out (or in) when they stand up, or are you just playing it in/out? If you play the entire crouching & standing animation then of course they’ll stand up. If you only have the animation going one direction then play it reversed to stand up it should work.

I’m assuming after the crouch animation plays the default animation goes back to idle. You’ll probably need to correct that.

Please give us the script you are using since this is Scripting Support…

[SpeakerDev (Speaker Studios)]

You have to create an idle animation that loops over and over until you get back up. Just copy the very last keyframes of your getting down animation and paste it twice in another animation, each being just milliseconds apart. Make sure that the looped icon in Animation Editor is enabled and you can save your animation.

[ItIsRecoil (Recoil)]

Due to the way I made the animation, when it plays, the character doesn’t teleport into the crouch position; it’s an animation where they slowly get down to crouch. If that is looped then it will continue crouching up and down when activated I’m pretty sure

[SpeakerDev (Speaker Studios)]

Yes, I understand that. But the last keyframes of that animation are the final crouching position, yes? When the timeline gets to the last keyframes, that is what the normal crouching looks like?

[ItIsRecoil (Recoil)]

Yup the last keyframes are the full crouching stance

[SpeakerDev (Speaker Studios)]

So you would take those last keyframes and copy/paste them twice into another animation and set it to loop.

I have these last keyframes here. I would take them and put them twice into another animation.

And then I would make sure loop was on.

Now I would save it. This animation would keep the player in the crouching position until you stop playing it (aka when the player stops crouching).

[ItIsRecoil (Recoil)]

My apologies for not showing much… not home at the moment so I’m trying to get a friend to help me with the info.

Does it play as in (or out) as the player crouches, then switches to out (or in)

Are you asking about the easing direction? I believe it’s set to in but I’m not sure. If you’re asking how the animation plays: basically character gets down into a squat slowly and it ends.

The only thing the script does is play the animation when C is pressed

I’ll try to get the code soon

[ItIsRecoil (Recoil)]

So I would play the crouch animation, add a wait ‘til the animation is done & then play the looped idle animation? Or play the idle before crouching finished

[SpeakerDev (Speaker Studios)]

Yes, just like this example:

local bool = script.Parent.BoolValue

ThisIsHowYouBeginCrouch:Connect(function()
bool.Value = true
CrouchDownAnimation:Play()
repeat
CrouchIdleAnimation:Play()
until bool.Value == false
end

ThisIsHowYouEndCrouch:Connect(function)
bool.Value = false
CrouchUpAnimation:Play()

[ItIsRecoil (Recoil)]

Ah I see, I see. I Didn’t think about the repeat either. I will check this out when I get the chance to

I will mark as a solution when I confirm that it worked

Thanks!