Need help in playing an animation after firing at event

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Could i get suggestions on what to use in my code so i could make the animation fire after the event fires?

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Welcome to the DevForum!

One way would be to have the server fire the client event and on the client when it gets the event call you could use Humanoid:LoadAnimation and load the animation into the humanoid then play it from there.

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What you’re trying to achieve isn’t really clear and it’s ambiguous. Do you mean you want to play an animation when a RemoteEvent is fired, or do you mean you want to play an animation when an event, like part.Touched for example, is fired?

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I made a script in a part that fires an event in replicatedstorage, in my startercharactorscripts i got a localscript that actives when the event fires

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does it have to be a local script or just a script

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You need to use OnClientEvent on the client to receive the signal from the server to fire the event. To play the animation, you need to use LoadAnimation, a function of the Humanoid, to return a controller that allows you to play the animation:

local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.YourEvent
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local aninTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(YourAnimation)

event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
    animTrack:Play()
end)
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Event:Wait()
AnimationTrack:Play()

Whatever your event is, call Wait to wait for it to fire. Your thread will yield until the event is fired, which then the animation plays afterward.

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I have tried that already, i looked in roblox dev hub and it did not work.

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Hold on im gonna try it real quick.

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Can i fire two clients with the same event or do i have to make seperate events?

because if i do need to make seperate events then i think that’ll fix my problem,
but if not its probably something else.

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You can - you don’t need to make separate events

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this is what i got

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post the code you used
//30characters\

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Part’s code:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if part.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”) then
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
game.ReplicatedStorage.PoisionAreaHandler:FireClient(player)
end
end)

your code(in serverscriptservice):

local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.PoisionAreaHandler
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = char:WaitForChild(“Humanoid”)
local animTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(4473996043)

event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
animTrack:Play()
end)

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This should be in a local script

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localscript in serverscriptservice yeah?

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No, local scripts won’t run in ServerScriptService. You should put the script in StarterPack or StarterCharacterScripts

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I put it in starterpack and it errors me that it cant cast the value,
i put it in startercharacterscripts and it doesnt error me the animation just doesnt work.

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LoadAnimation needs an animation object with the ID, and not just the ID itself. You have to insert an Animation instance and change the AnimationId property to rbxassetid://YOURIDHERE. Then in the LoadAnimation function, do:

local animTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(AnimationInstanceHere)
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like this rbxassetid://4473996043?