How would I make NPC animate scripts to play locally?

[Jaxolare]

My friend and I are developing a game that involves a LOT of wandering NPCs. Right now, there are just under 300 of them, and we’re planning on adding more for new maps. However, these NPCs are causing a lot of lag, especially for mobile users.

I’m pretty sure the animate server scripts in each NPC is mainly causing the lag, so I’m looking for a way to make the animations play for the client, hoping that will minimize most of the lag. I’ve tried looking through many posts and forums, but I can’t find a definitive answer (Probably since I’m relatively new to local scripts and might not know the most simplest of things)

Here is the link to the game: Take Your Anger on Bacons! - Roblox

Any help is appreciated, and please let me know if anything else can be done to minimize the lag. Thanks!

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

@Jaxolare

I’m pretty sure the animate server scripts in each NPC is mainly causing the lag, so I’m looking for a way to make the animations play for the client, hoping that will minimize most of the lag.

Locally animated NPCs?

You will need a Local Script, probably in the player. In a previous project I’ve done this before. I pulled all the animation values out of the Player’s Animate script and put them in a folder called Animation inside the NPC, Then have the local script run this and you can have the NPC use all the ROBLOX player’s animations: local animation = npc.Animation.cheer.CheerAnim --change cheer.CheerAnim to whatever animation exists in the folder local animTrack = npc.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation…

@Jaxolare

please let me know if anything else can be done to minimize the lag

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