How would I add a keybind that plays a animation and damages when you have a tool equipped

[killya64 (Lee)]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve? Keybind with animation and damage when tool equipped

[nyhm65]

heres how to play an animation when pressing a key

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

repeat task.wait() until Player.Character

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(key,gpe)
if gpe then return end
  if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then -- change "E" to any key you want
    local anim = Instance.new("Animation")
    anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://..." -- add ur animationid
    local loadAnim = Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
    loadAnim:Play()
    anim:Destroy()
  end
end)

now you mentioned you also want to damage when the tool is equipped, that would take a bit more time depending on how good you want the damaging system to be and how you even want it to be cause you didnt mention if you want it to damage the player or an enemy. For damaging someone else you would need to make a whole hitbox system and then from that you can use it to damage others. Try to learn how to code cause this is simple stuff and you should be able to make it yourself.

[Kotium_I (Kotium)]

Here are some things that can help you:

• When a tool is equipped, it will be parented to the character. This would allow you to check if a tool is equipped and set a variable to true.

Example:

Character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(Child)
	
	if Child:IsA("Tool") then
		
		HasToolEquipped = true
		
	end
	
end)

You can then do the same thing except using “ChildRemoved” instead of “ChildAdded” and setting the variable to false instead of true.

• You have a choice to make now. You can either use “ContextActionService” or “UserInputService” to do something when a certain key is pressed. I would recommend researching these services as it would help you with this project and help in the future.

• Taking damage is not that tricky, You can use “Humanoid.Health -= Damage” (Humanoid being a child of the character and Damage being the amount you damage. Just to let you know -= is the same as doing Humanoid.Health = Humanoid.Health - Damage just more simpler).

• Playing an animation is simple, I would recommend researching this as well. Roblox has a documentation site which covers everything I think. If you want to play an animation for someting that has a “Humanoid” you would just need to create an animation through “Instance.new” then set the animation Id. You would then need to load the animation through the already existing “Animator” which is a child of the Humanoid. Then you would simply play it when wanted.

You should also research online before making a post as you may be able to find the answer floating around somewhere.

Documentation:

Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

I wish you the best of luck with your projects, cya! - Kotium_I