Is there a way to work around this tedious if else approach?

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#1

So I want to add VFX to my attacks and each attack animation will have a unique VFX that happens. Is there a way to connect the VFX to the animation(Without including the VFX within the animation export)?

I want to avoid this kind of thing(Most people do VFX this way.)

if attack1 then
   -- attack 1 vfx
   -- play attack1 animation
elseif attack2 then
   -- attack 2 vfx
   -- play attack2 animation
end

This is extremely tedious and if I want to add more animations it will not be really great to work with.

I want to be able to drag and drop animations, say, in an animations folder and able to connect the unique VFX to each of those animations.
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And with this, able to test play the animations like this(also making the unique VFX appear):

local anims = Moveset:GetChildren()
while true do
    local anim = anims[math.random(#anims)]
    local animTrack = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(anim)
    -- some code to play the connected vfx
    animTrack:Play()
    animTrack.Stopped:Wait()
end
#2

You can have a dictionary which maps names to functions, or something:

local effects = {
  ["attack1"] = function()
    -- play attack1 effects
    print("doing attack1")
  end,
  ["attack2"] = function()
    -- play attack2 effects
    print("doing attack2")
  end,
}

local anims = Moveset:GetChildren()
while true do
    local anim = anims[math.random(#anims)]
    local animTrack = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(anim)

    local effectFunc = effects[anim.Name]
    effectFunc()

    animTrack:Play()
    animTrack.Stopped:Wait()
end