Mirror an existing animation and use it without uploading

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#1

I am wondering if there is a way to mirror animations using scripts during a live game, I have a combat game cooking where I need weapons to be available in both hands requiring a normal and mirrored version of the identical multiple animations. (I have already looked at other topics and haven’t found anything useful)

What I am looking to do:
To mirror an animation during a game that is already running so I do not have to upload separate animations for normal and mirrored versions, I am able to edit animation keyframes and mirror them myself but I need to find a way to actually run that animation without having to upload it?

What I am not looking to do:
I do not want a plugin/script to mirror the animations for me, its not what I am looking for.

Any help/info is appreciated, thanks in advance.

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#2

What does mirroring animations mean?

#3

Unless you’re using cframe animations this is impossible I think. You need a track to play an animation, meaning you have to upload it.

#4

for example if you have an animation where someone points with their left arm, the mirrored animation would point with their right arm

#5

You could track the CFrame of motor6ds for each frame and use that CFrame for the opposite limb. But uploading an animation is better.

#6

What you’d like to be able to do is not possible with the current Roblox Animator and AnimationTrack system. To make a workaround in Lua that supported blending, you’d end up writing a whole animation system, and with a huge performance penalty.

#7

But you can just mirror the entire animation save though

#8

The OP was asking for a way to mirror a published animation at runtime, without generating and publishing a mirrored copy.