How come the tool is not animating?

[Guest618271]

I'm making a testing animation so I can see if my tool can animate correctly.

I want to properly animate tools in the future so I need to test these things.

The problem is that the animation I made works perfectly fine when it's running on a rig, but it doesn't play correctly on the player.
I doubt the animation itself is the problem so I’m not sure why the tool doesn’t animate.
I have videos and pictures to identify the issues.

PICTURES OF RIG

PICTURES OF PLAYER

[Hazelfluff]

I dunno much about tool animation atm but mayhaps these could help?

How to animate tools (the easiest and best way) (for melees)

Every other tutorial on how to animate tools are just a complete pain to follow and just way too complex. So I will be showing you how to do this easily. Also with this tutorial if you already have tools that are already setup and have their parts welded with a Handle too then you are already good to go. NOTE: To actually animate I found that Moon Animator works best for animating tools for some reason so I recommend using that. NOTE 2: I will assume you have good knowledge of developing in …

How to Create Tools and Animate Them [TUTORIAL]

Hi! This is a very basic tutorial for tool animation in Roblox Studio. I will try to make this tutorial as detailed as possible so that it is easy to follow. Feel free to skip ahead at any time. I hope you find this tutorial helpful and I wish you the best of luck with your animating! Disclaimer: This tutorial is specifically designed for beginners looking to learn some basic animation. This method will not work if you intend to add moving parts to your tool or create animations that involve th…

Having Trouble With Playing Animations On A Custom Rig

Found out how to fix it! You need to use an animator inside of an animation controller in the rig. I hope this helps anyone else with this problem!

Animation not running correctly

After many tries, I have decided to do this: Instead of letting Roblox handling the positions and offset calculations of the tool when it is equipped, I will handle it. I renamed the handle part of the tool to something else so Roblox will not automatically do it for me, then I use your method, that is, using Motor6D to connect the arm and the tool’s handle together. It works well! The only problem is that, as you can see in the video, the offset of the tool is weird. Do you have an…

[Guest618271]

Oh sorry I figured this out 30 minutes after I posted this. The problem was that you can’t animate a weapon unless it’s in the character.
So an example would be if I wanted to animate my sword swinging and wanted to rotate the sword while the animation is playing. If the model that contains the sword isn’t in the character, then you can’t even animate it in animators. The simple solution was to put the model inside the character. Sorry for the information you had to gathered!

[Hazelfluff]

Oh thats fine! Mark the solution so others know that its solved!

[Guest618271]

There really isn’t any solution so I’ll mark this one.