How to code with animations

[ichigo76543 (ichigo765)]

i want to code a system where if you press a key, the player will lift up his hands until you let go and then it will return to its original state. ive tried many different ways that i thought could work but none worked. how would i actually do this?

[JustCrock]

You should use UserInputService, and then run the animation through the humanoid’s animator. It would probably look SOMETHING like this in a local script:

local UIS = game.GetService("UserInputService")

local liftAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
local liftAnimation.AnimationId = -- enter roblox id

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local playerAnimator = humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")

local liftAnimationTrack = playerAnimator:loadAnimation(liftAnimation)

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then -- replace E with whatever key you want
        liftAnimationTrack:Play()
    end
end)

I hope this helps. Good luck, and feel free to ask questions.

[soprosostupid (carbonsoda)]

Your code is not perfect I’d have to say.
So basically you have to do some edit to your code, making the animation track looped, since lifting hands seems like a looped action.
So the code should be something like:

--load animation with looped being true--
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input,gpe)
	if gpe or input.UserInputState ~= Enum.UserInputState.Begin then return end
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
		Animation:Play()
	end
end

UIS.InputEnded:Connect(function()
	if Animation then Animation:Stop(0.5) end --I recommend having a fade time
end

[ichigo76543 (ichigo765)]

i have a problem with both iterations of the code as of rn. @JustCrock 's code played the animation correctly, but didnt keep the animation playing until i let go of the key. your code gives me the error: Stop is not a valid member of Animation “Animation”. here is my code again for reference

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Animation = Instance.new("Animation")
Animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://15304871151" -- enter roblox id
local character = player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local playerAnimator = humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")

local liftAnimationTrack = playerAnimator:loadAnimation(Animation)

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input,gpe)
	if gpe or input.UserInputState ~= Enum.UserInputState.Begin then return end
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
		Animation:Play()
	end
end)

UIS.InputEnded:Connect(function()
	if Animation then Animation:Stop(0.5) end --I recommend having a fade time
end)

[ichigo76543 (ichigo765)]

i figured out the error code, the :Play() and :Stop() events were being called on the animation itself, not the track. the code is now working. thanks for your help.