Custom walking animations only work for first player?

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1

Only the first player to join the server in my game seems to receive the custom walking animations we have made. Other players can see the first player walk normally, but do not display the walking animation themselves. Here are the methods I have used to apply the custom animations:

ServerScriptService Script 

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local PlayerStats = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("Storage1")
local Leaderboard = DataStoreService:GetOrderedDataStore("Leaderboard")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local PlayerSpawns = {}

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	-- Loads player datastores...
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		for _,v in pairs(char:GetDescendants()) do
			if v:IsA("BasePart") then
				PhysicsService:SetPartCollisionGroup(v, "Players")
				PhysicsTable[v] = v
			end
		end
		char.DescendantAdded:Connect(function(g)
			--[[for _,v in pairs(char:GetDescendants()) do
				if v:IsA("BasePart") then
					PhysicsService:SetPartCollisionGroup(v, "Players")
					print("doggie"..v.Name)
				end
			end]]--
			if not PhysicsTable[g] then
				PhysicsTable[g] = g
				if g:IsA("BasePart") then
					PhysicsService:SetPartCollisionGroup(g, "Players")
				end
				for _,v in pairs(g:GetDescendants()) do
					if v:IsA("BasePart") and not PhysicsTable[v] then
						PhysicsTable[v] = v
						PhysicsService:SetPartCollisionGroup(v, "Players")
					end
				end
			end
		end)
		
		task.wait()
		

		char.Parent = game.Workspace.Characters

		local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

		hum.WalkSpeed = 12
		hum.NameOcclusion = Enum.NameOcclusion.OccludeAll
		hum.HealthDisplayType = Enum.HumanoidHealthDisplayType.AlwaysOff

		local WalkAnim = char:WaitForChild("Animate"):WaitForChild("walk"):WaitForChild("WalkAnim")
		local RunAnim = char:WaitForChild("Animate"):WaitForChild("run"):WaitForChild("RunAnim")

		--char.Animate.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://8815019631"
		--char.Animate.run.RunAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://8815019631"

		WalkAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://8815019631"
		RunAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://8815019631"

		print(WalkAnim.AnimationId)
		print(RunAnim.AnimationId)

		ServerStorage.AnimStorage.Animations:Clone().Parent = char

		print("AsyncHandler: Cloned AnimStorage animations to "..plr.Name.."'s character.")

		EmoteEvent:FireClient(plr, AnimStorageCount)


		for _,v in pairs(ServerStorage.SoundStorage.HumanoidRootPart:GetChildren()) do
			v.Parent = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		end

		CharacterReady:FireClient(plr)
	end)
end)
StarterCharacterScripts.Animate 
local animNames = { 
	idle = 	{	
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507766666", weight = 1 },
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507766951", weight = 1 },
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507766388", weight = 9 }
	},
	walk = 	{ 	
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=8815019631", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	run = 	{
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=8815019631", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	swim = 	{
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507784897", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	swimidle = 	{
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507785072", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	jump = 	{
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507765000", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	fall = 	{
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507767968", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	climb = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507765644", weight = 10 } 
	}, 
	sit = 	{
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2506281703", weight = 10 } 
	},	
	toolnone = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507768375", weight = 10 } 
	},
	toolslash = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=522635514", weight = 10 } 
	},
	toollunge = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=522638767", weight = 10 } 
	},
	wave = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507770239", weight = 10 } 
	},
	point = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507770453", weight = 10 } 
	},
	dance = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507771019", weight = 10 }, 
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507771955", weight = 10 }, 
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507772104", weight = 10 } 
	},
	dance2 = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507776043", weight = 10 }, 
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507776720", weight = 10 }, 
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507776879", weight = 10 } 
	},
	dance3 = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507777268", weight = 10 }, 
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507777451", weight = 10 }, 
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507777623", weight = 10 } 
	},
	laugh = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507770818", weight = 10 } 
	},
	cheer = {
		{ id = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507770677", weight = 10 } 
	},
}

I also changed the AnimationIds of the walk and run values under Animate.

Why don’t these methods work for other players on the server? All help is appreciated!

2

Alright, I have tried something before that indeed does work but it’s a bit tricky.

When the player joins, you can disable the original Animation Script within the character. From there, you can either put your script into the character and have it play like the original thing or you can just add the animations from the Game Settings tab.

3

Doesn’t adding an edited copy of the default Animation script already disable the original one? I might have missed something related to disabling the original script.

Does this allow for keyframes to fire events for synced step sounds? I hope to be able to continue using my custom walk sounds that rely on keyframes :slight_smile: .

4

I have tried the first method given, to no avail. It still acts in the exact same way :frowning:

I’m afraid to try the second method as I don’t know how to access the animation’s keyframes outside of the modified default animation script.

5

I’ve found the cause for the issue. I made the mistake of setting the parent of the actual walk sounds to the first character that joins, instead of cloning it every single time a character joins. For some reason I had set the time out of WaitForChild to 99999, which caused the script to yield and not return any errors. Thanks for the help anyways!