How to make animation play when clicked and stop when not clicked?

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#1

Hello,
Here’s what I’d like for the script to do:

  • If tool equipped and clicked, perform an animation
  • after the animation has completed, change the value
  • be able to restart the animation as soon as the animation has finished

What it does

  • when tool equipped and clicked, it performs the animation
  • however, if clicked multiple times, it restarts the animation
  • continuously loops unless unequipped
  • doesn’t change the value

also i heard local anim = humanoid:LoadAnimation(emote) is deprecated. What is the better replacement for this?
here is the code

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local news = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats"):WaitForChild("news")
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		local read = Instance.new("Animation")
		local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		read.Parent = humanoid
		read.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://11827469203"
		repeat task.wait() until character.Parent == workspace
		local readanim = humanoid:LoadAnimation(read)
		readanim.Looped = true
		local tool = character:WaitForChild("NewsTool")
		tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
			tool.Activated:Connect(function()
				readanim:Play()
				readanim.Stopped:wait()
				news.Value += 1
			end)
			tool.Deactivated:Connect(function()
				print("deactivated")
				--readanim:Stop()
			end)
		end)
		tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
			readanim:Stop()
		end)
	end)	
end)
`
#2

any help would be appreciated greatly

#3

Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation() is not deprecated.

#4

oh ok, thanks for letting me know