New Character Doesn't Have Animations

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#1

Hello,
I am currently testing with switching the character of a player. I have got setting the new character and camera correct but ran into a problem. When I switch the player’s character, the new character I switched the player to doesn’t have any animations. This means it does not play the idle, walk, jump, and all other default animations a character would usually have. The character already has the local animate script inside of it that all other characters have, yet still no animations play.

Note: The new character I give to the player is parented to the workspace.

Server Script

script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(player)
	local guy = workspace.Ice
	game.ReplicatedStorage.Cam:FireClient(player, guy)
	player.Character = guy
end)

Local Script

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

game.ReplicatedStorage.Cam.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(guy)
	camera.CameraSubject = guy.Humanoid
end)

Other Character’s Stuff

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#2

Can I see the animation script?

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#3

It’s just the default animation script that goes into every character. Go into studio, play it, then look inside your character for it.

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#4

Are you saying you want a character to look a certain way but it is not being animated?

#5

Partially, I am switching the player’s character to another character model, no different from a regular Roblox character. The camera goes to it and I can move as the new character model but walking, jumping, and all other animations do not play.

#6

So first, delete your current Animate Script and add this one.

AnimateScript.rbxm (7.1 KB)

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#7

This does make it where the new character now plays all the animations but they are quite noticeably delayed. Anyway to make it not delayed?

#8

I found it being delayed because it is a server script and not a local one. So now I need to know how to make it where the local script works. I am guessing I would have to place it somewhere else, but don’t know where that would be.

#9

Copy the code in it and put that code in a localscript (make sure to name it Animate) and put the items in that script too.

#10

I did and it doesn’t work, I also placed a print function at the beginning and that print didn’t print into the output which means the whole script together just doesn’t run. I think I need to place it in another spot but I don’t know where to place it.

#11

Hmmm alright wait let me do something.

#12

Alright I fixed it. Usually you would put it in StarterCharacterScripts but when switching players it was not respawning the character so that doesn’t work. So I disabled the local script and put it in ServerScriptService. When a player goes to another character I clone the local script, insert it into the new character, and then enable the script. Also thanks for your help.

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