How to detect animation events in Roblox default animator script?

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to add events to roblox’s default animator script,

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    Don’t know how to do that.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

I tried editing the “playAnimation” function, or trying to reach the marker in another script with the same animation ID, but none of them happened to work.

-- This is the function I edited from the default animator script
function playAnimation(animName, transitionTime, humanoid) 	
	local idx = rollAnimation(animName)
	local anim = animTable[animName][idx].anim
	
	anim:GetMarkerReachedSignal("Sparkle"):Connect(function()
		print("WORKS")
	end)

	switchToAnim(anim, animName, transitionTime, humanoid)
	currentlyPlayingEmote = false
end

-- this is the script that I used in another local script, neither worked

local animationId = "rbxassetid://17769800973" 

local function onMarkerReached(markerName)
	if markerName == "Sparkle" then
		print("WORKS")
		local vfx = game.ReplicatedStorage.Part.AttachmentA:Clone()
		vfx.Parent = game.Players.Localplayer.RightHand
		for _,v in pairs (vfx:GetChildren()) do
			if v:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
				v:Emit(2)
			end
		end
	end
end

local humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId = animationId
local loadedAnimation = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)

loadedAnimation:GetMarkerReachedSignal():Connect(onMarkerReached)
loadedAnimation:Play()

Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.

#3

okay so your looking for a signal named something so

loadedAnimation:GetMarkerReachedSignal()

should be

loadedAnimation:GetMarkerReachedSignal("Sparkle")

the parameter passed to onMarkerReached is whatever value u set the animation event to
so if you named the event “Sparkle” and set it’s value to true then
the function onMarkerReached would get the value true as the argument markerName

PS: you don’t even call the playAnimation function, so idk what your trying to do with that

#4

:skull: just realized how long ago this was