How to animate a tool/object with a Dummy in the Animation Editor

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#66

Make sure that they’re positioned where they’re supposed to be and welded correctly.

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#67

Your character will hold the tool by the Handle usually. I suggest making the Handle an invisible break that doesn’t add to the aesthetic of the gun. This means you can move it around to find a good position where your character is holding the gun as you’d like it to. It’s mostly trial and error, so adjust the Handle until you like where it is.

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#68

I’m trying to animate a musket I just created, but the positions of the handle while holding and playing is different from how I positioned it in studio. I followed this tutorial to the step, including using Custom Character Creator to bind the Motor6D’s and removing Welds on the parts you’re animating.

How it looks ingame:

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How it looks in studio:

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I’m also getting this weird thing where I try to select/rotate specific parts, the animation editor does the moving and rotating from the position of the handle regardless of where that specific part is.

Example:

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I’m aware that my SBS plugin (building plugin) is displayed in my screenshot. SBS was never used.

Any assistance would be appreciated. Lovely tutorial! :drooling_face:

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#69

Are you using Motor 6D to connect the character to the tool? If so, use Motor6D.C1 to position it correctly.

#70

Yeah, my handle is the invisible brick, but even with the animation set to how I want it to be, the gun still self-aligns itself with the player’s arm.

#71

Make sure all the parts are connected to the invisible part through Motor6D?
I recommend you to check out my walk-through guide here.

#72

Annoyingly, the animation editor won’t let me select and manipulate the handle, even though all joints and everything have been set up properly. it’s even shown as a joint

Edit: This looks like a problem with the beta animation editor, old one is working fine. This is what I get for wanting to use features before they’re fully released.

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#74

It seems the ability to edit the specific joints of weapons has been broken by the new animation editor. Any word on a fix?

#75

I’m currently unable to work on a fix for this due to university work unfortunately. If anyone has a fix and wants to contribute I’d be more than happy to add it to the main post with credit provided. If there isn’t a fix soon I will work on coming up with a solution myself.

#76

I tried a lot of time and i cant make it pls help me ;-;

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#77

Hi, if you’d like some help I suggest going into more detail about the problem, a repro file would be highly appreciated. Without a clear image in my head of what you are trying to achieve I’m not able to assist you.

@awesomeboy9000 I’m currently looking into a fix for the issue with the new Beta Animation Editor.

#78

i finally find the solutio u need to put the correct name of the motor6D :smiley:

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#80

Wish I had seen this sooner, this is very helpful I appreciate it.

#81

Do u know how to play the animation with the tool? It doesn’t animate the tool, only the player… The magazine doesn’t detach. Is there a way to do it without welding the magazine to the left hand?

#82

This tutorial is a bit outdated now due to updates to the Animation Editor causing functionality to break. I reccommend taking a look at the tutorial by @Headstackk marked as a solution in the post, it should fix your problems!

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#83

You can actually animate the handle with tweenservice.

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#85

Very helpful! Although, im pretty sure you got the command to get motor6d wrong.

#86

I’m a noob at scripting so this may sound really dumb but i don’t want it to connect to the dummy i want it to connect to the actual player and uh how are u supposed to put the animation in when u click please help I’m dumb

#87

You have to publish your animation to Roblox first. Then you need to create a Animation thing in ServerStorage. Now copy the Id of your animation and place it as AnimationId or Id on the Animation that you created in ServerStorage. Basic Script placed in a Part that will make your animation playing when you stand on the Part:

local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local Animation = ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Animation")

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part2)
    local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part2.Parent)
    if Player then
	    local animationTrack = Player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation)
    	animationTrack:Play()
    end
end)

This Script won’t be good, so don’t use it. I wanted to show that you have to LoadAnimation first and Play it later.

#88

after welding it and doing everything correctly i get this result with my scythe

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here is my explorer
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