Help with making a animation play when a button is clicked

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#1

Hi! I want to make a button that when you click it plays an animation! Im having issues with it. The script doesn’t seem like its working sadly. I don’t know what the issue is. I think that the issue is within the function call. I hope you can help me!

local animation = script:WaitForChild("Animation")
local button = script.Parent

local debounce = 1

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    animation:play()
    wait(debounce)
end)
#2

There’s actually a function that we use to play animations that’s called: LoadAnimation, but it depends on where your Character hierarchy is & where your script is for the script to load the animation

Also, is this a Local or Server script?

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#3

local. Its a local script. It seems like the right one to use.

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#4

Correct you are! Using a LocalScript, we can actually get the Character fairly easy since it’s referenced from the client side! So we can get the player & add a bit more to our code:

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Button = script.Parent
local Animator = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):WaitForChild("Animator")
local Animation = script:WaitForChild("Animation")
local Debounce = false

Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    if Debounce == false then
        Debounce = true

        local LoadAnimation = Animator:LoadAnimation("Animation")
        LoadAnimation:Play()
        wait(1)
        Debounce = false
    end
end)
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#5

I am afraid this still doesn’t work.

#6

Really? Are you getting any errors from your Output at all? You should either see them in Yellow or Red

#7

no. Im not. Im using an R6 animation and my game setting says the characters are R6

#8 
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Button = script.Parent
local Animator = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):WaitForChild("Animator")
local Animation = script:WaitForChild("Animation")
local Debounce = false
print("Script online")

Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    print("Button fired")
    if Debounce == false then
        print("Playing animation")
        Debounce = true

        local LoadAnimation = Animator:LoadAnimation(Animation)
        LoadAnimation:Play()
        wait(1)
        Debounce = false
        print("Animation ended?")
    end
end)

Hm weird, try this and see what prints out?

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#9

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the output sent some stuff I don’t understand.

#10

Hm, chances are either your Animation variable or the LoadAnimation variable isn’t valid

Can you double check to see what Animation is supposed to be? I’m assuming an Animation object?

#11

um. Animation is not an object. Its simply an emote. I classified it as a idle animation using th roblox animator.

#12

Screen Shot 2021-04-06 at 5.23.11 PM

#13

Wait I’m dumb LOL I defined the LoadAnimation variable as a string

Ok try the script again, I edited it & it should be fixed by now

#14

thank you! It worked! I appreciate it a lot!

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#15

Excuse my dumb mistakes aha Anytime! Do keep in mind that you can use the LoadAnimation function when you want to play a specific animation when scripting :wink:

#16

thanks! I will look more into it! I have been studying animations lately. Im soon going to go into boolean values after I understand how to script animations! Thanks again!

#17

Some times it does not work the AP is not fixed right

#18

What does AP mean? Sorry I don’t know much about scripting as you know.