Help with animation playing

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1

im trying to make it so when you press e, you do an animation, but it says it can’t get the players character

here is the code:

local Shake = game.ReplicatedStorage.Shake

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
 
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
 
local character = player.character 
local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
 
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=5125401222" -- Roblox dance emote
 
local animationTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)

Shake.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr)
	animationTrack:Play()
end)

and I get this error

  15:10:38.359 - ServerScriptService.AnimationManagement.Shake:7: attempt to index nil with 'character'
2

Is this written in a server script or local script? This type of code handling animations should be run in a local script because LocalPlayer cannot be received from a server script.

3

oh, its in serverscriptservice, because it was run when an event was fired

4

Well then thats the problem. You can’t run animations on a server script and you also can’t get the player with “.LocalPlayer”. What I would suggest you doing is running the animation from the local script that fired the event instead. :slight_smile:

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5

thanks, just got the code inside the event and put it in my first localscript

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