Help changing walk animation

[SideProgrammer]

Hello. I am making a sprint mechanic in my game. When the player presses CTRL to sprint this code changes their walk animation to the sprinting animation:

character.Animate.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = self.RunAnimation

This DOES work but only after the player stops walking or jumps. I would like it to immediately change their animation as they continue moving. Any help is appreciated.

[joebersons (joeberson)]

you should change the RUNNING animation, not the walk

[SideProgrammer]

Im sorry, that is what a did. The snippet I provided was just a hastily typed up version of what I remember writing. Here’s the actual code:

local character = self:GetEntity()
if character.Animate.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId ~= self.WalkAnimation then
	character.Animate.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = self.WalkAnimation
end
			
if character.Animate.run.RunAnim.AnimationId ~= self.WalkAnimation then
	character.Animate.run.RunAnim.AnimationId = self.WalkAnimation	
end 

Regardless it still does not work properly

[Marusenai]

I think you would have to either stop the animation, play a looped anim of that, or try this method which may or may not work:

local animid = nil — your id

for i, v in humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks() do
if v == “RunningAnim” or v.Name == “RunningAnim” then v.AnimationID = animid
end

make sure u change the animation tracks name to RunningAnim tho

[SideProgrammer]

The code did not work. I did find this in the default Animate script:

function onRunning(speed)
	speed /= getRigScale()
	
	if speed > 0.01 then
		playAnimation("walk", 0.1, Humanoid)
		if currentAnimInstance and currentAnimInstance.AnimationId == "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=180426354" then
			setAnimationSpeed(speed / 14.5)
		end
		pose = "Running"
	else
		if emoteNames[currentAnim] == nil then
			playAnimation("idle", 0.1, Humanoid)
			pose = "Standing"
		end
	end
end

Seems to be where the walk animation is initially played. I tied it to a blindable event and fired it each time CTRL is pressed to update the walk animation, but im not sure what the parameter ‘speed’ is supposed to represent nor how to get it so it threw an error. If you happen to know anything about this I would appreciate the help

[MykoNil]

I believe that by changing the animation Id instead of playing a separate animation may be causing the game to have to take a moment to load the new animation. Perhaps there’s a cache that gets refreshed only after you stop the animation before playing it to update it.

[SideProgrammer]

No it seems to be that once you begin running, it plays the animation once and any animation ID changes afterwards do not update the current animation until you stop moving

[SideProgrammer]

I found a solution so I’ll explain it for anyone wondering. In the default Animate local script I added this function:

function playWalk()
	for i,v in pairs(Humanoid.Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
		if v == "WalkAnim" or v.Name == "WalkAnim" then
			v:Stop()
		end
	end
	playAnimation("walk", 0.1, Humanoid, true)
	pose = "Running"
end

This is fired via bindable event each time the player toggled sprint. It essentially replays the walk animation with the now updated animation ID (the actual swapping of ID’s is done elsewhere). This solution is not perfect and might bring other problems that I have not seen but it works for my purposes.

[MykoNil]

Hi there. That’s exactly what I meant. Sorry if I have poor communication.