How would I make a clean tool idle animation script?

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#1

So, I’m trying to make a tool idle animation for my RPG game. I understand how to do it, but this happens:


How would I make it, so the other animations aren’t affected? Just the idle plays and the walk and run ones stay the same. I would appreciate your help.

Script:

local tool = script.Parent
local anim = Instance.new("Animation")

anim.Name = "IdleAnim"
anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://90348512778317" 

local track

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	track = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(anim)
	track.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Idle
	track.Looped = true
	track:Play()
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	if track then
		track:Stop()
	end
end)
#2

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#3

the idle animation’s priority shouldn’t be Movement. that’s why the Idle priority exists.

#4

Well yes I’ve already fixed that, but I don’t know how to make it so the animation doesn’t affect the other animations.

#5

To stop all other animations runing at the same time is a simple peace of code of

humanoid.Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()

And uou can loop through that because it returns an array.

for i, Ani in humanoid.Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks() do
Ani:Stop()
end

[youanimation]:Play()

So you code will look like

local tool = script.Parent
local anim = Instance.new("Animation")

anim.Name = "IdleAnim"
anim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://90348512778317" 

local track

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
for i, Ani in humanoid.Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks() do
Ani:Stop()
end -- stops all animations that are playing.
	track = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(anim) -- loadanimation on humanoids is deprecated so use the animator (a child of the humanoid) when playing animations.
	track.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Idle
	track.Looped = true
	track:Play()
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	if track then
		track:Stop()
	end
end)
#6

First of all, there’s an error at line 10. So I fixed it, but it still does not work. The idle overrides the walk and jump and stuff.

#7

Instead of playing the animation, you’d rather replace the idle animation straight from the character’s Animation script:

local tool = script.Parent

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local character = tool.Parent

	character:WaitForChild("Animate").idle.IdleAnim:Destroy()
	local idleanim = Instance.new("Animation")
	idleanim.Parent = character:WaitForChild("Animate").idle
	idleanim.Name = "IdleAnim"
	idleanim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://90348512778317" 
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	local character = tool.Parent

	character:WaitForChild("Animate").idle.IdleAnim:Destroy()
	local idleanim = Instance.new("Animation")
	idleanim.Parent = character:WaitForChild("Animate").idle
	idleanim.Name = "IdleAnim"
	idleanim.AnimationId = ADD DEFAULT IDLE ANIMATION HERE
end)
#8

Never mind, I just implanted a system to check the players movement, and it works. Thanks for the suggestions!

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