How do I make an animation start

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#1

Hey, sorry if it sounds like im asking for alot, but can anyone tell me the lines of code needed to play an animation, and make it loop? I dont know a lick of Lua C, thanks!

#2

To play an animation for a player you can do the following steps.

  1. Reference the local player, character and the humanoid in a local script
        local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
    local humanoid = character.Humanoid
  2. Create an animation and parent it to the character if the character doesn’t have the animation yet
        local standAnimation = nil
    if not character:FindFirstChild("standAnimation") then
        standAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
        standAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://animationIdNumber"
        standAnimation.Name = "standAnimation"
        standAnimation.Parent = character
    end
  3. Load the animation onto the humanoid, this returns an AnimationTrack Object so that you can play the animation later with it!
        local animationTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(standAnimation)
  4. If the animationTrack was created then you can set the Looped property to true so that it will loop the animation, then to play the animation on the track, just run the :Play() method and it will play!
        if animationTrack then
        animationTrack:Play()
    end

After everything is complete your script should look like this:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character.Humanoid
local animationTrack = nil
local standAnimation = nil

if not character:FindFirstChild("standAnimation") then
    standAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
    standAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://animationIdNumber"
    standAnimation.Name = "standAnimation"
    standAnimation.Parent = character
end

if standAnimation
    animationTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(standAnimation)
    if animationTrack then
        animationTrack.Looped = true
        animationTrack:Play()
    end
end
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#4

This developer hub article helped me a lot when I was scripting animations:

I always refer to the developer hub first before asking on the devforum!

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#5

thanks! this helped alot!

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