Delay in animation after playing it multiple times

[xAvrice (avrice)]

I’ve got an animation with different AnimationEvents indicating points at which the track should stop to wait for player input. The animation plays perfectly the first time, stopping at the right keyframe to wait for the player to release their right mouse button. But when using the skill again it doesn’t seem to stop or play at the right time. I do not know where the delay in the animation is coming from.

Video of the issue

The video should show how the “Pulling the arm back” part of the animation gets delayed after each use.

AnimationEvents in the animation:

My (local)script:

local character = script.Parent
local hrp = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") or character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") or character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local mouse = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
mouse.TargetFilter = character

local grappleAcc = character:FindFirstChild("GrappleBand") or character:WaitForChild("GrappleBand")
local grappleCore = grappleAcc.Handle
local baseAtt  = grappleAcc.GrapplePoint:FindFirstChild("baseAtt")
local projAtt = grappleAcc.GrapplePoint:FindFirstChild("projAtt")

local projAttPos = projAtt.Position

local lineBeam = grappleAcc.GrapplePoint:FindFirstChild("line")

local TweenServ = game:GetService("TweenService")

local grappleAnim = script.rnsGrapplePull
local grappleAnimTrack = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(grappleAnim)

local UIServ = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local debounce = false
local pressed = false
local function onInputBegan(input, gameProcessed)
	if not gameProcessed then
		if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 and not debounce then
			debounce = true
			pressed = true
			
			grappleAnimTrack:Play(0)
			grappleAnimTrack:GetMarkerReachedSignal("grappleAiming"):Connect(function()
				
				grappleAnimTrack:AdjustSpeed(0)
				humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0
				
			end)
			
		end
	end
end

local function onInputEnded(input,gameProcessed)
	if not gameProcessed then
		if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 and pressed then
			pressed = false
			
			local hitPart
			if mouse.Target then
				hitPart = mouse.Target
			else
				grappleAnimTrack:Stop()
				humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
				wait(1)
				debounce = false
			end
			
			local origin = baseAtt.Position
			local direction = (mouse.Hit.Position - origin).Unit * 100
			local params = RaycastParams.new()
			params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
			params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {character}
			
			local rayResult = workspace:Raycast(origin,direction,params)
			if rayResult then
				print("found point")
				lineBeam.Enabled = true
				
				local tweenInfoAtt = TweenInfo.new(0.7,Enum.EasingStyle.Circular,Enum.EasingDirection.InOut)
				local goalAtt = {}
				goalAtt.WorldPosition = rayResult.Position
				
				local tweenAtt = TweenServ:Create(projAtt,tweenInfoAtt,goalAtt)
				tweenAtt:Play()
				tweenAtt.Completed:Wait()
				projAtt.Parent = rayResult.Instance
				projAtt.WorldPosition = rayResult.Position
				
				local tweenInfoBeam = TweenInfo.new(0.25,Enum.EasingStyle.Linear)
				local goalBeam = {}
				goalBeam.CurveSize0 = 0
				goalBeam.CurveSize1 = 0
				
				local tweenBeam = TweenServ:Create(lineBeam,tweenInfoBeam,goalBeam)
				tweenBeam:Play()
				tweenBeam.Completed:Wait()
				
				
				grappleAnimTrack:AdjustSpeed(1)
				grappleAnimTrack:GetMarkerReachedSignal("grappleMoving"):Connect(function()

					grappleAnimTrack:AdjustSpeed(0)

				end)
				
				local alignPos = Instance.new("AlignPosition")
				alignPos.Position = rayResult.Position
				alignPos.Attachment0 = baseAtt
				alignPos.Attachment1 = projAtt
				alignPos.ApplyAtCenterOfMass = true
				alignPos.RigidityEnabled = true
				alignPos.ReactionForceEnabled = false
				alignPos.Parent = hrp

				repeat
					wait()
				until (alignPos.Position - alignPos.Attachment0.WorldPosition).Magnitude < 5
				print("reached")
				
				lineBeam.Enabled = false
				lineBeam.CurveSize0 = 5
				lineBeam.CurveSize1 = 5
				
				projAtt.Parent = grappleAcc.GrapplePoint
				projAtt.Position = projAttPos
				
				grappleAnimTrack:Stop()
				humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
				wait(1)
				debounce = false
			
			else
				
				grappleAnimTrack:Stop()
				humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
				wait(1)
				debounce = false
				
			end
			
		end
	end
end

UIServ.InputBegan:Connect(onInputBegan)
UIServ.InputEnded:Connect(onInputEnded)

I tried to search for other posts about this but I didn’t find anything specific to this problem. I might’ve misunderstood something about how animations/animation events work in general.

[IceCreamPickels]

not sure if this is gonna help, but did you try disconnecting the event after it’s been fired?

also they are animation priorities such as movement, idle and action
that may overlap the other animation

[xAvrice (avrice)]

Thank you for your reply! I hadn’t tried disconnecting the event but sadly it did not seem to solve the issue at hand.

A while after making the post I tried destroying the AlignPosition object after I was done with it and that seems to have fixed it for now, although I don’t really understand how it had been affecting it in the first place.