How do i load and play an animation on a local custom mesh with a humanoid

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

Im trying to play a specific animation for each of 8 custom rigs (square blocks with faces) and make those rigs visible in a surfacegui using a viewport (thats why i need them to be local because i dont think you can do that on the server)

  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

No idea how to do it because the animations arent playing at all
This is an image of the hierarchy btw
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  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

I tried looking everywhere and asked so many people been at this for like 7 hours now

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This is the code for the animations, its a local script

local Folder = script.Parent
local PlayAnimationsEvent = Folder.PlayAnimationsEvent
local AllFaces = {
	Folder[":I 1"],
	Folder[":/ 2"],
	Folder[">:/ 3"],
	Folder["😖 4"],
	Folder[";I 5"],
	Folder[":< 6"],
	Folder[":> 7"],
	Folder[">:I 8"]
}
local Number = 2

PlayAnimationsEvent.Event:Connect(function()
	local Face = AllFaces[Number]
	local Humanoid = Face:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
	local Animation = Face:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Animation")
	local AnimationTrack = Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(Animation)
	AnimationTrack:Play()
	Number += 1
	if Number > 8 then
		Number = 1
	end
end)
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#2

I’m not an expert but don’t those go in player starter scripts?

#3

they are inside the player because they are inside playergui so they should work (and putting the script inside player scritps or character scripts fixes nothing)

#4

You need a WorldModel to play animations in viewport frames…
Im so dumb :neutral_face:

#5

ik im late but how exactly did u end up doing it

#6

you need to put a WorldModel inside the viewport and put everything that was in the viewport inside the WorldModel then the animations should play
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