I’m a bit experienced with making animated tools so I was wondering if this was possible to script. Basically, I have a Recorder tool and I’d like for it to have two different idle animations depending on the mouse being clicked. I’m terrible at explaining so I made a doodle of what I’m talking about. I did try to look this up but I couldn’t find anything about it.
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Modules = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Modules")
local Cooldown = require(Modules:WaitForChild("Cooldown"))
local PlayerScripts = Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerScripts")
local Functions = PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("Functions")
local CooldownF = Functions:WaitForChild("Cooldown")
local Tool = script.Parent
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local FakeMedkit = Tool:WaitForChild("FakeMedkit")
local BodyAttach = FakeMedkit:WaitForChild("BodyAttach")
if not Character:IsDescendantOf(workspace) then
while not Character:IsDescendantOf(workspace) and Character == Player.Character do task.wait() end
if Player.Character ~= Character then return end
end
local IdleAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
IdleAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://10598905500"
local I = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):WaitForChild("Animator"):LoadAnimation(IdleAnimation)
local UseAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
UseAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://10598908994"
local A = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):WaitForChild("Animator"):LoadAnimation(UseAnimation)
Tool.Activated:Connect(function()
if Player:GetAttribute("Grabbing") or Cooldown:IsOnCooldown(Player) or A.IsPlaying then return end
A:Play()
CooldownF:Invoke(2)
end)
Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
I:Play()
end)
Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
A:Stop()
I:Stop()
end)
I don’t have anything on-hand for reference, but I know that the core Animator script used for Player characters uses random selection to achieve this. I believe the default animator package uses three possible idle animations, and one of them is selected to play whenever the character enters the idle state.
If you want it to be a bit more complex you could add weights to each animation to make one more likely to be selected than the others.
Alternatively, a simpler solution without randomness would be to just use a “switch” variable that is toggled every time an idle animation is selected. (Initially idle1 would be chosen, then idle2, then idle1, … etc.)
Edit:
Based on the wording of the initial post, if you’re just looking for these idle animations to play at specific times, then you could just store both animations in variables and play the appropriate one based on the player’s action.
if <player doing action A> then:
<play animation one>
else:
<play animation two>
First of all, cool doodle you got there, i like it.
Now to the problem at hand. You could use a debounce
--assuming the tool is equipped
--play your idle 1 animation here
local Clicked = false
Tool.Activated:Connect(function()
Clicked = not Clicked
if Clicked then
--play open animation
--2 methods you can use here for idle 2
--1: Stop Idle1 with AnimatrionTrack:Stop() and play Idle 2
--2: Play Idle2 at a higher animation priority so you dont need to call :Stop() on Idle 1
else
--play close animation
--stop playing idle2 animation and replay idle 1
end
end)
