How could I pause all animation in my game?

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#1

Is there any way to pause all animation at once? I was thinking you could iterate through the whole game and check if any animations exist so they would be paused, but I was wondering if there was a more efficient way to do this.

#2

Iterating for animation objects / animators honestly is the best way, since itll be server sided it you could :Stop() just thru the server assuming youve done your animations serverside. For any client animation I would try to fire a remoteevent to client to stop the anim :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Thanks though!

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#4

One way that I’d consider more efficient is an implementation that uses an OOP architecture which handles all of the client-side and server-side animations in your experience.

--MODULE

local Animator = {}

function Animator.new(AnimatorObject)
	return setmetatable({Animator = AnimatorObject, Tracks = {}}, {__index = Animator})
end

function Animator:Load(AnimationObject)
	self.Tracks[AnimationObject.Name] = self.Animator:LoadAnimation(AnimationObject)
end

function Animator:Unload(AnimationName)
	self.Tracks[AnimationName] = nil
end

function Animator:Play(TrackName)
	if self.Tracks[TrackName] then self.Animations[TrackName]:Play() end
end

function Animator:Stop(TrackName)
	if self.Tracks[TrackName] then self.Animations[TrackName]:Stop() end
end

function Animator:PlayAll()
	for _, Track in ipairs(self.Tracks) do
		if not Track.IsPlaying then Track:Play() end
	end
end

function Animator:StopAll()
	for _, Track in ipairs(self.Tracks) do
		if Track.IsPlaying then Track:Stop() end
	end
end

function Animator:Destroy()
	self.Animator = nil
	self.Tracks = nil
end

return Animator

--CLIENT

local Animator = require(PathToModule) --Require the module.

local NewAnimator = Animator.new(ReferenceToAnimatorObject) --Create an 'Animator' object wrapper.
NewAnimator:Load(ReferenceToAnimationObject) --Load an animation.
NewAnimator:Play(TrackName) --Play the loaded track.
NewAnimator:StopAll() --Stop all playing tracks.
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