How is Humanoid:PlayEmote() supposed to work?

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#1

Wanted to check if anyone knew what was up before filing a bug report. I’ve been trying to get a custom emote system working, and it just refuses to work. I have the following LocalScript in StarterCharacterScripts

local Character = script.Parent
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local HumanoidDescription = Humanoid:WaitForChild("HumanoidDescription")

task.wait(1)

HumanoidDescription:AddEmote("Test", EMOTE_ID)

task.wait(1)

print(HumanoidDescription:GetEmotes())

while true do
	task.wait(3)
	print(Humanoid:PlayEmote("Test"))
end

The HumanoidDescription has the emotes loaded, including the test emote, but Humanoid:PlayEmote() only returns false (emote fails to play). :PlayEmote() works with all Roblox emotes - I own the salute emote and :PlayEmote("Salute") works fine

Is there something I’m doing wrong? Maybe the animation itself is incorrect? If I set the test emote animation ID to that of an existing emote this code works fine, for example.

#2

Does this work in testing? In studio?

Also, delete your dev discussion post, making another wont fix it

Any erorrs?

#3

No errors - simply returns false in both testing and studio.

#4

You have to apply the HumanoidDescription to the Humanoid first. (After adding the Emote)

Humanoid:ApplyDescription(HumanoidDescription);
#5

Doesn’t seem to change anything - I apply HumanoidDescription to Humanoid in a ServerScript, and on client :PlayEmote() still only ever returns false.

At this point I’m pretty sure Roblox just has like a list of emote animation IDs somewhere that the function checks before playing the emote - not sure if this is intended behavior or not.

#6

Did u add the emotes from the server side and then applied? If yes…

What if you try to set them by using:

HumanoidDescription:SetEquippedEmotes()

Max 8 Emotes, have to ApplyDescription.