Help with an Animation Toggled with a keybind

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

wait… to add on to what I just said, it appears that I am no longer having my messages print.

[Primotivos (Kibo)]

Can you paste your script here?

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

wait… now its
working, but the animation is doing… whatever this is?

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

corrupted animation. I remade it and it appear to be working now. Thank you SO MUCH and sorry for taking up so much of you guys’ time on this.

[Primotivos (Kibo)]

Great! glad it’s working. If you’d be so kind and mark my response as a solution, that’d be great. Cheers.

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

Yeah, of course! One last thing, could you possibly help with the clearing backpack and giving back the items portion? I have already taken up so much of your time so It’s obviously okay if you say no LOL

@Katrist I tried but I still don’t really understand a lot about the backpack in general

[Katrist]

I’ll do a basic design for you or Primo to use for help.

– Clearing backpack
You’ll want to save a log of every item in the backpack (possibly by cloning the backpack and keeping that clone in a dictionary)
You’ll clear all items in the player’s backpack

– Retrieving backpack
You’ll look through the dictionary for the player
Reparent the backpack found (or just its objects) to the player

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

Thank you, this will really help! also I genuinely want to thank you for adding a “try it yourself” portion, because its hard to learn when someone gives a 100% complete script. Like, actually, It sets me back in learning if I get pushed a solution where I understand nothing.

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

for the saving portion, would I use a datastore of some form?

[Katrist]

Unless you want their items to be saved across sessions, just use a dictionary.

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

Ty, will try that out shortly.

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

I do understand how to use dictionary, but I am not entirely sure as to how I would save the backpack using this. Would I have to name every item or is there just like a backpack contents

[Katrist]

I’ve done the code for you and left comments. Make sure to read them for a full understanding.

Code:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local Surrender = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Surrender")

local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://15687505843"

local surrenderedPlayers = {}
local surrenderAnimations = {}
local playerBackpacks = {}

Surrender.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	local humanoid = player.Character and player.Character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")

	if not humanoid then
		return
	end

	local hasSurrendered = surrenderedPlayers[player]

	if hasSurrendered then
		surrenderedPlayers[player] = false
	else
		surrenderedPlayers[player] = true
	end

	if surrenderedPlayers[player] then
		local surrenderAnimation = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
		surrenderAnimation:Play()

		surrenderAnimations[player] = surrenderAnimation
		
		-- Unequip current tools
		player.Character.Humanoid:UnequipTools()
		
		-- Create dictionary table
		playerBackpacks[player] = {}
		
		-- Insert all tools into table and destroy tools
		for i, child in player.Backpack:GetChildren() do
			table.insert(playerBackpacks[player], child:Clone())
			child:Destroy()
		end
	else
		surrenderAnimations[player]:Stop()

		-- Give items back
		for i, tool in playerBackpacks[player] do
			tool.Parent = player.Backpack
		end
		
		-- Clear dictionary
		playerBackpacks[player] = nil
	end
end)

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(function()
		surrenderedPlayers[player] = nil
		surrenderAnimations[player] = nil
		playerBackpacks[player] = nil
	end)
end)

If it works, a solution would be appreciated.

[K0RUII (Koruii)]

Works, thank you so MUCH, and I will be sure to read the comments!