Does the UserInputService not recognize the keys A and D or did I do something wrong?

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So I was trying to make it play an animation when ever the player is pressing A or D but something is not right it is not printing anything when I press one of those keys. Can someone help me with this???

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local eventa = rep:FindFirstChild("Events"):FindFirstChild("Animations"):WaitForChild("Left")
local eventb = rep:FindFirstChild("Events"):FindFirstChild("Animations"):WaitForChild("Right")

local endeventa = rep:FindFirstChild("Events"):FindFirstChild("Animations"):WaitForChild("LeftEnd")
local endeventb = rep:FindFirstChild("Events"):FindFirstChild("Animations"):WaitForChild("RightEnd")

local animationA = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(script.AnimationA)
local animationB = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(script.AnimationB)

local isPlayingA = false
local isPlayingB = false

local function playAnimationA()
	if not isPlayingA then
		print("--Playing Animation | A")
		animationA:Play()
	    eventa:FireServer()
		isPlayingA = true
	end
end

local function playAnimationB()
	if not isPlayingB then
		print("--Playing Animation | B")
		animationB:Play()
		eventb:FireServer()
		isPlayingB = true
	end
end

local function stopAnimationA()
	if isPlayingA then
		print("--Ending Animation | A")
		animationA:Stop()
		endeventa:FireServer()
		isPlayingA = false
	end
end

local function stopAnimationB()
	if isPlayingB then
		print("--Ending Animation | B")
		animationB:Stop()
		endeventb:FireServer()
		isPlayingB = false
	end
end

local function playstandartAnimation()
	print("--Playing Animation | Standart")
end

local function stopplayingstandartanimation()
	print("--Ending Animation | Standart")
end

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A then
		print("playing animationA | KEY PRESSED: [A]")
		playAnimationA()
	elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.D then
		print("playing animationB | KEY PRESSED: [D]")
		playAnimationB()
	end
end)

UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input)
	print("ending animationA")
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A then
		stopAnimationA()
	elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.D then
		print("ending animationB")
		stopAnimationB()
	end
end)

And yea it is in the StarterPlayerScripts and it is a localscript

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You don’t need an isPlayingB or isPlayingA variable. Start the animation when they hold the key down and end it when they let go.

Code:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local eventa = rep.Events.Animations:WaitForChild("Left")
local eventb = rep.Events.Animations:WaitForChild("Right")

local endeventa = rep.Events.Animations:WaitForChild("LeftEnd")
local endeventb = rep.Events.Animations:WaitForChild("RightEnd")

local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animationA = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(script.AnimationA)
local animationB = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(script.AnimationB)

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A then
		animationA:Play()
		eventa:FireServer()
	elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.D then
		animationB:Play()
		eventb:FireServer()
	end
end)

UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A then
		animationA:Stop()
		endeventa:FireServer()
	elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.D then
		animationB:Stop()
		endeventb:FireServer()
	end
end)
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Oh okay! I wrote a print function into the function that should know if the user pressed the key but nothing happends for some reason I am still confused.

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So not even the print statements work? Are there any errors? Is the script inside StarterPlayerScripts or StarterCharacterScripts?

you said it was in StarterPlayerScripts, but then this line is incorrect:

local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

Instead, put it in StarterCharacterScripts

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I did still the same thing… I am really confused

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There are no errors not even a warning not a print statment nothing

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I’m not sure on exactly why it’s not working. All I know is that A and D are reserved keybinds when the character can actively move. I’m assuming your using this to tell when to play strafing left/right animations? If that’s the case, try this instead:

1: Get the LookVector of the character, set it to look
2: Fix look by removing it’s Y component
3: Set speed to look.Magnitude * hum.WalkSpeed
4: Set move to hum.MoveDirection
5: Get the strafe angle based on the look direction using math.acos(math.deg(move:Dot(look)) (fact check me on this)
6: Use the angle to determine which of the 8 degrees of motion the user is walking in
7: Play the correct strafing animation based on the angle
8: Adjust the animation speed using :AdjustSpeed(speed / 16)

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I am like using car the player is like just constantly in a car so… I will look if this works

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Well, then that won’t work. Cars do not have strafing animations.