Need Help with Overwriting Animations while Equipping/Unequipping Weapon

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#1

Hello, I’ve made this script to replace the animation IDs for when this sword is equipped and when it is unequipped (and it works fine). However, whenever the sword is equipped/unequipped, as seen in the video I linked, the previous animation is still played until I completely stop moving, which then the proper animation plays.

How can I make the animations fluidly transition/overwrite each other and stop the problem? Here is my full script:

--Services
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local StarterPack = game:GetService("StarterPack")

--Variables
local Tool = script.Parent
local ToolStats = require(ReplicatedStorage.ItemData:FindFirstChild(Tool.Name, true))
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local EquippedItem = ReplicatedStorage.Events.Equipped
local UnequippedItem = ReplicatedStorage.Events.Unequipped

local Attack = Tool:WaitForChild("Attack")
local Block = Tool:WaitForChild("Block")

local AnimateScript = Character:WaitForChild("Animate")
local Animator = Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local DefaultIdle = "rbxassetid://129666379856115"
local DefaultWalk = "rbxassetid://117691645809776"
local SwordWalk = "rbxassetid://75651293536523"

--Functions
local function UpdateAnimations(toolName)
	if toolName == "Starter Sword" then
		print("Updating animations to Sword animations")
		AnimateScript.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = SwordWalk
		AnimateScript.run.RunAnim.AnimationId = SwordWalk
	else
		print("Resetting to normal animations")
		AnimateScript.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = DefaultWalk
		AnimateScript.run.RunAnim.AnimationId = DefaultWalk
	end
end

local function ToolEquipped(tool)
	if tool:IsA("Tool") then
		print("Tool equipped: " .. tool.Name)
		UpdateAnimations(tool.Name)
	end
end

local function ToolUnequipped()
	print("Tool unequipped.")
	UpdateAnimations(nil)
end
--Events
Tool.Equipped:Connect(function() 
	ToolEquipped(Tool) 
end)

Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	ToolUnequipped(Tool)
end)

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input) -- Attacking
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		print("Left mouse was clicked only.")
		Attack:FireServer()
	elseif input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
		print("Right mouse was clicked.")
		Block:FireServer()
	end
end)

Video link of issue:

#2

I believe you would have to turn of animation loop in the animation editor

#3

Nope, it doesn’t work, it just makes you pretty much A-Pose after the animation is done.

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#4

Alright then well I would try messing around with animation priority Try to make your walking animation have more priority than the sword if that doesn’t work then I’m not sure

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#5

Unfortunately, that didn’t work either; I’m not really sure why anything I try doesn’t exactly work, and now whenever the character is reset the animation script doesn’t even work anymore. Oh well, I appreciate the help regardless!

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