Having Issues Playing an Animation when an NPC Dies

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#1

Hello, I am currently working on a Tower Defense game and today I was making animations for the enemies. One of the animations I made was a death animation, which plays when an enemy reaches the end of the track or when they get killed mid way through the track. The problem I am having while trying to play this animation I believe is that the enemy falls over, so it causes the enemy to kind of freak out while the animations plays. If anyone knows a reliable way of keeping the character from falling then that would really help.

Here is a video of what it looks like (Sorry for the poor quality, I can’t record with good quality on my laptop):

There aren’t any solutions I have tried so far because I am unsure of how to keep the enemy unanchored so the animation can play while also stopping them from falling.

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#2

try making it so that when the character dies, it automatically becomes anchored and plays the animation

#3

Maybe when he dies anchor him before you play the animation?

#4

This, but anchor the humanoidrootpart only???

#5

If I anchor the npc before playing the animation, wouldn’t it prevent the animation from being able to play?

#6

After the animation begins playing unanchor it.

#7

I was thinking the same honestly, but maybe try it first and see what happens?
If that doesn’t work maybe try Instancing a new part below the zombie for him to fall over and not get moved by the conveyor? But that might cause issues if other NPCs collide with that instance.

#8

Alright. Cause I think what causes them to fall over is the fact that I am using Humanoid:MoveTo() to move them to different points on the track so I have to cancel to movement when the humanoid dies. I am thinking that this causes the npc to fall over. I will go try anchoring the HumanoidRootPart and see if that works

#9

Well then, if you are using the MoveTo, make it so when they die the MoveTo stops.

#10

Or :Destroy() their Humanoid so the MoveTo stops

#11

How could I stop the move to when they die? I couldn’t seem to find that when looking at other posts before I made this one, and results I did find didn’t fix my issue. I think the MoveTo is causing the problem as the enemy tries to move when they humanoid can’t because it died so it doesn’t end.
Also I would attempt deleting the humanoid but I need it to load the animation track.

#12

I was trying to make an environement to try and fix your issue but I am very bad at playing animations on NPCs, however, using this:

local humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local pointa = workspace.pointA
local pointb = workspace.pointB

humanoid:MoveTo(pointa.Position)
humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
humanoid:MoveTo(pointb.Position)
-- Add as many points as you please.

I noticed that when the humanoid reaches 0 hp at any point in the script , the dummy just flops to the ground without moving forward anymore. So maybe it’s how you set-upped your animation to play is where the issue lies?

#13

After looking at some other posts about animating without a humanoid, I will see if I can use an AnimationController so that I can try deleting the humanoid like you suggested

#14

That could be the issue. I am firing a Humanoid.Died event in a script in the enemy separate from the main script that moves the enemies. I think as a result it is possible I am playing the animation too late