How do I make an animation JUST play on the client?

[Maelstronomer]

How do I make an animation JUST play on the client? I don’t want it doesn’t replicate to other players in this case. Local Animation scripts in the character seem to replicate automatically…

[Maelstronomer]

O, nevermind, I’ll try this solution (it works now)

@TheGamer101

With FilteringEnabled you can create a local Animator or AnimationController and use that to play the animations locally. If you want to play local animations for a Humanoid you can replace the Animator in the Humanoid on the client and then play animations as normal. Because the new Animator is local only the animations will not automatically replicate.

Like, in the top of a local Animate script: (messy but just focus on the animator destroy/instance.new)

local lp = game.Players.LocalPlayer
while not lp.Character or not lp.Character.Parent do wait() print'waiting for char' end
local Character = lp.Character --script.Parent
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local oldanimator = Humanoid:WaitForChild'Animator'
oldanimator:Destroy()
local newanimator = Instance.new('Animator',Humanoid)