How would I make an animation play for an npc if a player touches a part?

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#1

This seems so simple but yet I can’t figure it out. I believe I’m overthinking this but I have no one to ask to help me with this. Basically, I’ve been trying to create a “horror” game but I don’t think that just a gui changing its visibility is scary enough. To improve this I wanted to make a touch part that would play an animation on a humanoid that would basically play a 3d jumpscare animation. If anyone could help me out or lead me in the correct direction it would be highly appreciated, thanks.

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#2

This should work:

local part = -- path to part
local animId = -- animation id

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
   local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
   if hum then
      local Animation = Instance.new("Animation")
      Animation.Parent = hum
      Animation.AnimationId = animId
      local animTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(Animation)
      animTrack:Play()
   end
end
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#3

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It errors and it doesn’t create a new animation inside of the dummy.

Why is this so difficult T_T

#4

@oofblocks was correct with his answer, except he just forgot to add a colon at the end to finish it.

Here’s the correct code.

local part = -- path to part
local animId = -- animation id

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
   local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
   if hum then
      local Animation = Instance.new("Animation")
      Animation.Parent = hum
      Animation.AnimationId = animId
      local animTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(Animation)
      animTrack:Play()
   end
end) -- colon missing here
#5

That will make the player play the animation, not the NPC. Something like this might work:

wait(4)
local part = -- path to part
local animId = -- animation id
local NPC =  --path to NPC model
 local Animation = Instance.new("Animation")  
Animation.Parent = NPC:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
Animation.AnimationId = animId

local db = false
part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
   local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
   if hum  and db == false then
      db = true
      local animTrack = NPC.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation)
      animTrack:Play()
      wait(5)
      db = false
   end
end)
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#6

The code above works perfectly fine, at least it should. This code is longer and unnecessary. @oofblocks suggestion was perfectly valid, just had a small mistake.

#7

Oh, I thought that he wanted an NPC to jump out, I didn’t realize that he wanted there player to play the animation. Sorry about that.

#8

No, you’re correct thanks for your feedback

#9

This is leading in the correct path but I’m still having issues with the script and I’m not sure how to fix them

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#10

Sorry for the late reply, I was in school. It sounds like the animation id is incorrect, did you format it something like this (replace the numbers with your id)

rbxassetid://123456789
#11

I had put the ID itself in, I will try the rbxassetid thanks

#12

It worked for me thank you lol

#13

This is what I ended up with

wait(4)
	local part = script.Parent-- path to part
	local NPC =  script.Parent.Dad--path to NPC model
	local Animation = Instance.new("Animation")  
Animation.Parent = NPC:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
Animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://6446931879"

local db = false
part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if hum  and db == false then
		db = true
		local animTrack = NPC.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation)
		animTrack:Play()
		wait(5)
		db = false
	end
end)