How to animate without Humanoid?

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

The parent argument is not deprecated, it is simply not recommended if you change properties later due to performance-related problems.

See the following thread:

PSA: Don't use Instance.new() with parent argument

I’ve discovered a pretty bad performance issue in one of top games that has to do with Instance.new and wanted to write about this, since this is not obvious unless you know the system inside out. Tthere are several ways to create a ROBLOX object in Lua: local obj = Instance.new(‘type’); fill obj fields local obj = Instance.new(‘type’, parent); fill obj fields local obj = util.Create(‘type’, { field1 = value1, … }) If you care at all about performance, please only use the first option - I wi…

OP does not edit any properties of the controller so using the parent argument is fine in this scenario. Nothing needs to change, though for consistency’s sake it’d be preferred not to use it.