How do I make a animation stop playing when the keybind is hit again

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

I want to make an animation to play when you press F, but if you press it again the animation stops.
How can I do this?

game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse().KeyDown:connect(function(key)
	if key == "f" then
		local db = false
		local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		local humanim = hum:LoadAnimation(script:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animation"))
		humanim:Play()
		humanim.Looped = true
		end
end)
3 Likes
#2

Put this in a Local script inside of StarterCharacterScripts
image


local animplaying = false

repeat wait() until script.Animation  -- Change to Name of Animation 

local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local humanim = hum:LoadAnimation(script.Animation) -- Change to Name of Animation 

game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse().KeyDown:connect(function(key)
	if key == "f" then
		if animplaying == false then
			animplaying = true
			humanim:Play()
			humanim.Looped = true
		else
			animplaying = false
			humanim:Stop()
		end
	end
end)
3 Likes
#3

It randomly stops the animation, Is there something I need to do?

#4

Maybe make the animation looped. I tested it with a looped animation that I made and it worked with no problems. But then again the “humanim.Looped = true” should have fixed that.

#5

I tried that. Not working, what do I do?

#6 
game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse().KeyDown:connect(function(key)
	if key == "f" then
if db then
		local db = false
		local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		local humanim = hum:LoadAnimation(script:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animation"))
		humanim:Play()
		humanim.Looped = true
		end
else if not db then
humananim:stop()
end




end)
#7

This doesn’t work and doesn’t solve the randomly stopping problem.

#8

Hey, I recommend you to use UserInputService for good practice. Anyways, you should use a variable to determine if the animation is playing, and stop the animation if the variable is true.

local UIS = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local Key = 'F'
local Animation, AnimationPlaying = nil, false

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input, UI_Interacting)
    if Input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Key] then
        if AnimationPlaying then
            Animation:Stop() -- This might not be correct.
        else
            AnimationPlaying = true
            Animation:Play()
            Animation.Stopped:Wait()
            AnimationPlaying = false
            -- Start animation
        end
    end
end)

This should work…

#9

Attempt to index nil with Stop() is the error it prints.

#10

You need to assign Animation to the AnimationTrack (an Instance returned by LoadAnimation).

#11

I’m kinda bad at animating, I’ll try this. Thanks.

#12

It says animation is not a valid member of keybind, even tho it is?

local UIS = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local Key = 'F'
local Animation, AnimationPlaying = nil, false
local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animation = hum:LoadAnimation(script.Animation) -- error occurs here
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input, UI_Interacting)
	if Input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Key] then
		if AnimationPlaying then
			animation:Stop() -- This might not be correct.
		else
			AnimationPlaying = true
			animation:Play()
			animation.Stopped:Wait()
			AnimationPlaying = false
			-- Start animation
		end
	end
end)
#13

Edit: Try adding print statements wherever possible, like this:

local UIS = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local Key = 'F'
local animation, AnimationPlaying = nil, false
local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animation = hum:LoadAnimation(script.Animation)

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input, UI_Interacting)
	if Input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Key] then
        print('Key pressed.')

		if AnimationPlaying then
            print('Animation was playing. Stopping animation.')
			animation:Stop() -- This might not be correct.
		else
            print('Playing animation.')
			AnimationPlaying = true
			animation:Play()
			animation.Stopped:Wait()
			AnimationPlaying = false
			-- Start animation
		end
	end
end)
#14

I thought it was the problem but the problem presists.

2 Likes