How to stop an animate animation during the script

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#1

I want to make a tool that slows the player down and plays a different walk animation.

The issue is that when you equip or unequip the tool when walking it glitches and doesnt stop playing the original or the custom walk.

I have tried using Movement Direction but I do not know how to use that effectively.

If anyone can tell me what im doing wrong I would be extremely thankful!

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local Humanoid = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local character = Humanoid.Parent
	local OriginalAnimate = character:WaitForChild("Animate")
	local Animate = game.ServerStorage.Animate:Clone()
	Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 4
	OriginalAnimate:Destroy()
	Animate.Parent = character
end)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
    local Name = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name
	local character = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(Name)
	local Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local Animate = character:WaitForChild("Animate")
	Animate:Destroy()
	local OriginalAnimate = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Animate"):Clone()
	OriginalAnimate.Parent = character
	Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
end)
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#2

You could play the animation when you equip the tool and stop the animation when you unequip the animation. It will override the Roblox walking animation. So you dont have to destroy the animate core script.

And also it would not stop the Roblox walking animation because the Roblox Walking Animation is already loaded into the players humanoid, thats why its still playing.

So you could use Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks to stop all the existing animationtracks that are loaded in the Humanoid:

local Animations = Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()

for i, animation in pairs(Animations) do
animation:Stop()
end

#3

But then it would play the walking animation even when the player is standing still.

#4

Its also because the Roblox Walking Animation is looped. Meaning that it would keep playing until you declare to stop it.

#5

Okay so I made it stop but it doesn’t. Am I doing anything wrong here?

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local Humanoid = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local character = Humanoid.Parent
	local OriginalAnimate = character:WaitForChild("Animate")
	local WalkAnim = OriginalAnimate.walk.WalkAnim
	local LoadedWalkAnim = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(WalkAnim)
	LoadedWalkAnim:Stop()
	local Animate = game.ServerStorage.Animate:Clone()
	Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 4
    OriginalAnimate:Destroy()
	Animate.Parent = character
end)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
    local Name = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name
	local character = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(Name)
	local Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local Animate = character:WaitForChild("Animate")
	local WalkAnim = Animate.walk.WalkAnim
	local LoadedWalkAnim = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(WalkAnim)
	LoadedWalkAnim:Stop()
	Animate:Destroy()
	local OriginalAnimate = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Animate"):Clone()
	OriginalAnimate.Parent = character
	Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
end)
#6

I think it produces the same effect because even when you load the animation, you are loading another one of it and stopping the one that you loaded, not the one that was loaded by the Roblox Animate script. Try taking a look at the code in the first comment, I think that could fix your problem.

#7

Ok so I put the script after the Animate:Destroy() so it could stop all the animations without adding new ones but it still doesn’t seem to work.

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local Humanoid = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local character = Humanoid.Parent
	local OriginalAnimate = character:WaitForChild("Animate")
	OriginalAnimate:Destroy()
	local Animations = Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()

	for i, animation in pairs(Animations) do
		animation:Stop()
	end
	local Animate = game.ServerStorage.Animate:Clone()
	Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 4
	Animate.Parent = character
end)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
    local Name = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name
	local character = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(Name)
	local Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local Animate = character:WaitForChild("Animate")
	Animate:Destroy()
	local Animations = Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()

	for i, animation in pairs(Animations) do
		animation:Stop()
	end
	local OriginalAnimate = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Animate"):Clone()
	OriginalAnimate.Parent = character
	Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
end)
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#8

You would have to use humanoid.Walking or humanoid.Running so it would trigger when they are walking or running and then use another humanoid state event when they stop walking or running.

#9

You also just have to get the animate script and find the walking and running animation. Then change its name and add the new animation and put the old one’s name.

#10

I am testing your script to see the problem.

#11

Also, are you loading the animations on the server? Because the Roblox Animate Script is a local script.

#12

If the code that you posted was in a server script then I fixed your script. The issue was that you were stopping the animationtracks in the server when the Animate was loading them in the client.

Place this in a local script inside of the tool:

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
local Humanoid = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild(“Humanoid”)
local character = Humanoid.Parent
local OriginalAnimate = character:WaitForChild(“Animate”)
OriginalAnimate:Destroy()
local Animations = Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()

for i, animation in pairs(Animations) do
	animation:Stop()
end
local Animate = game.ServerStorage.Animate:Clone()
Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 4
Animate.Parent = character

end)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
local Name = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name
local character = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(Name)
local Humanoid = character:WaitForChild(“Humanoid”)
local Animate = character:WaitForChild(“Animate”)
Animate:Destroy()
local Animations = Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()

for i, animation in pairs(Animations) do
	animation:Stop()
end
local OriginalAnimate = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Animate"):Clone()
OriginalAnimate.Parent = character
Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16

end)

#13

Okay so I placed that in a local script but it sometimes just stops every animation including the tool idle and even stops the animations from the new animate we are adding.

#14

Are your tool Animations looped?

#15

Yes. They are looped and their animation priorities are action.

#16

Sorry if Im missing something. But its not as simple as this?

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local localPlaya = Players.LocalPlayer

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
local animateScript = localPlaya.Character:WaitForChild("Animate")
animateScript.run.RunAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://0000000000" -- Set your Custom Run Animation
end)

script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
local animateScript = localPlaya.Character:WaitForChild("Animate")
animateScript.run.RunAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://913376220" -- Restore Original/Default Roblox Run Animation
end)

When the tool is equiped, use the event and change the properties inside Animate Script, so it will use your custom running animation instead of the original, without modifying or cloning the script.
When the tool is unequipped set back the original/default animation again. You could get the copy of the animation the player is using too, to restore that specific animation if you want to, or use the default or any custom.

EDIT: BTW, im using a LocalScript inside the tool, but this same approach can be done in anyway you want. Works great for me

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