How can I make an animation play the full length

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1

I am trying to find the best way to play an animation on a humanoid when the player clicks, but make it so that animation plays the full length. I don’t want the animation to keep re-playing everytime a player clicks. If anyone has any ideas feel free to post it!

My code on the client:

local userinputservice = game:GetService("UserInputService")

userinputservice.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessedEvent)
	local inputType = input.UserInputType
	if inputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then 
		if gameProcessedEvent == true then
		else
			game.ReplicatedStorage.Clicking:FireServer(plr)
		end
	end
end)

My code on the server:

game.ReplicatedStorage.Clicking.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr)
	local playerModel = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(plr.Name)
	local humanoid = playerModel.Humanoid
	plr.leaderstats.Bucks.Value = plr.leaderstats.Bucks.Value + 1
	local FinalAnim = humanoid:LoadAnimation(game.Workspace.TossingMoney)
	FinalAnim:Play()
end)
2

You should only load the animation once for each character. When you have it loaded and have a reference to it, you can check if AnimationTrack.IsPlaying of that animationtrack is true. If it’s not, play it. You could store the animationtracks of each character into a table and when the character dies, remove them from the table and load new ones when the player respawns.

3

You can create a value called enabled and play the animation only if the value is true and make it false when the animation starts and set it back to true when animation finishes.

4

Here is a link to an event that fires when animations finish.

— Solution
Add a denounce that resets when the animation track receives the stopped event.

local denounce = false
game.ReplicatedStorage.Clicking.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr)
        if denounce then return end
        denounce = true
	local playerModel = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(plr.Name)
	local humanoid = playerModel.Humanoid
	plr.leaderstats.Bucks.Value = plr.leaderstats.Bucks.Value + 1
	local FinalAnim = humanoid:LoadAnimation(game.Workspace.TossingMoney)
	FinalAnim:Play()
        FinalAnim.Stopped:Wait()
        denounce = false
end)

This is just an example. It was written on my phone so it’s formatted poorly and probably has typos. Good luck!

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5

Oh I see you use that for every player. In that case, make your denounce a table with player IDs as keys then have Booleans as values. Then use those values as denounces. Ex.

debounceTable = {}
Scriptsignal:Connect(function(player)
 local playerId = player.UserId
 if debounceTable[userId] then return end
 debounceTable[userId] = true

 [[code]]

 otherScriptSignal:Wait()
 debounceTable[userId] = nil [[ or false. ]]
end)

Again, written on my phone. I can’t write comments or indent stuff. Good luck with what your making!