LoadAnimation requires an Animation object

[bartkor12]

I’ve scoured all over dev forum to find an answer, looking at multiple ‘LoadAnimation requires an Animation object’ posts but nothing worked in my case. I’ve tried using a while loop to detect when the humanoid has been loaded, WaitForChild(), clone the animation into the npc and then play it, but nothing seemed to work.

I am using motor6d animations for this and the animations have been published.

I’ve been at this error for the last 2 or 3 days maybe, hoping that I would find a breakthrough, but nothing. I’ve also created another post for this but I didn’t get an answer and i’m quite desperate.

Please help.

		if idleAnim then
			idleAnim = hum:LoadAnimation(idleAnim)
			NPCProperties.IdleAnim = idleAnim
			idleAnim:Play()
		end

[BucketsOfSauceLF]

Make sure that:
1: You are passing an animation instance, not just the animation ID.
2:You are referencing the correct object. (A print of the variable could reveal the problem)

[bartkor12]

I am doing both of those things, idleAnim is an animation object and I am referencing the correct object as sometimes 1 or 2 of those ‘sword noobs’ that are broken actually move and have their correct ai functioning.

[BucketsOfSauceLF]

Were are the animations contained? If they are published, and you are passing the correct object (the animation), then :LoadAnimation() should be working.

I would double check the names. If the animations are sometimes working then it could be that: There are two or more objects of the same name are being referenced by the script instead of the animation.

[bartkor12]

the names are correct, idleAnim is an instance, meaning that it is referenced directly like game.ReplicatedStorage.thing.anim as an example, loadanimation works sometimes which is weird, maybe I am experiencing an engine bug? I am making a lot of clones of an object all at once and then applying the script to that.

[bartkor12]

anyone wants a place download or something, I will be glad to give one

[bartkor12]

uhh somehow I fixed it? I do think that I encountered an engine bug that time, I just moved the animation object into the npc and it worked, this was just a really unusual thing to debug, and HOOORAY after a week of work I did it!