Need help with switching the idle/walk animations instantly

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  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to swap out the player’s walk and idle animations for crouch versions of the walk and idle animations, and have that happen instantly.

  2. What is the issue? After the two animations have had their animation ids changed, they do not actually update until the player has moved and stopped again. I assume this is because the idle and walk animations have been stopped and started again, but I am unsure how to make this process happen via a script.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I’ve looked around on the developer hub, but, asked some of my scripting friends, searched on youtube, and i’ve read through a bit of the animate documentation.

This is the code I have to actually do the crouching.

-- LocalScript as animations are replicated to the server.
local Animate = Character:WaitForChild("Animate")
local Idle = Animate:WaitForChild("idle"):FindFirstChildOfClass("Animation")
local Walk = Animate:WaitForChild("walk"):FindFirstChildOfClass("Animation")

local DefaultIdle = Idle.AnimationId
local DefaultWalk = Walk.AnimationId
local CrouchIdle = script.CrouchIdle.AnimationId
local CrouchWalk = script.CrouchWalk.AnimationId

local function Crouch()
	if Idle.AnimationId == DefaultIdle then
		Idle.AnimationId = CrouchIdle
		Walk.AnimationId = CrouchWalk
	else
		Idle.AnimationId = DefaultIdle
		Walk.AnimationId = DefaultWalk
	end
end

Thanks in advance.