[SOLVED] Animation script is broken after an update! i need help

[PP_Boat]

all the mobs in my game are animated via a local script and it always worked fine, until at one point today I came in Roblox studio and saw that the mobs were not animated! I started restoring old versions of the game in a panic, because I thought I had ruined everything, but even yesterday’s version of the game was broken. yesterday we played on the stream and all the animations worked perfectly. I don’t understand what’s going on. a roblox bug or I don’t understand what else could be wrong. the local script for animation has always been like this:

local function animateMob(mob)
	local humanoid = mob:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local animFolder = mob:WaitForChild("Animations")
	
	if mob and animFolder then
		local runAnim = animFolder:WaitForChild("RunAnim")
		if runAnim then
			local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChild("Animator")
			local walkTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(runAnim)
			walkTrack:Play()
			walkTrack:AdjustSpeed(humanoid.WalkSpeed / 10) -- Adjust speed based on walkspeed
		end
	else
		warn("No humanoid/animation folder for", mob.Name)
	end
end

workspace.Map.Mobs.ChildAdded:Connect(animateMob)

and it has always been in startergui.
I also tried the standard server version of the animation with the same id of the running animation as in the local version and everything seems to work. id of the running animation: http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=507767714
please help me how to fix it?

[HeyiDoStuf]

i dont know what this could be, but it maybe could be because youre using an animator in the humanoid when you dont need to. You can just use Humanoid:LoadAnimation().

[PP_Boat]

This function is deprecated in favor of using Animator:LoadAnimation() directly (the Animator may be created while editing or at runtime).

[PP_Boat]

[PP_Boat]

moving the mobanimation script to starterplayerscripts did not give a result

[PP_Boat]

please who can help me? i can pay for it! bump

[PP_Boat]

we are still didnt solved. please help. bump

[VSCPlays]

@HeyiDoStuf

i dont know what this could be, but it maybe could be because youre using an animator in the humanoid when you dont need to. You can just use Humanoid:LoadAnimation().

read this clearly

@ContextLost

Reasons We’re Deprecating Them

The reason we did this was documented on the devhub previously:

Both Humanoid:LoadAnimation and AnimationController:LoadAnimation will create an Animator if one does not already exist. When calling LoadAnimation from LocalScripts you need to be careful to wait for the Animator to replicate from the server before calling LoadAnimation if you want character animations to replicate. You can do this with WaitForChild("Animator").

If you call these deprecated LoadAnimation methods on a client before the Animator exists on the server, LoadAnimation will create an Animator that only exists on the client, This Animator will be unable to replicate the state of playing animations as expected.

These methods are only thin proxies that redirect calls to the Animator instance anyway. The Animator itself does all the actual animation work. These proxy methods only exist for historical reasons, from before the animation system could be used without Humanoids. Those were dark times.

The only remaining reason to use an AnimationController is to have another parent for the Animator. The Animator searches for animatable joints and Bones in descendants of its parent’s parent. This behavior is subject to change subtly in the future to eliminate this requirement for this intermediate parent between the Animator and the Model itself. We plan to change this to check the type of the Animator’s parent, and if it is a Humanoid or AnimationController search the descendants of the controller’s parent, otherwise searching descendants of the Animator’s parent. You must continue to have an AnimationController or Humanoid as a parent of the Animator in the meantime.

We know some developers deliberately exploit desyncronized Animators. You know who you are. Don’t do this unless you really know what you’re doing. We don’t encourage this because it means you need to re-invent animation replication entirely. This is a lot of work to maintain, and usually a bad use of your time. In the future we still want to more directly address the use cases that causes people to do this intentionally.

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also is the animation your’s, if not, then that’s probably the issue

[PP_Boat]

its the global basic animation of running. until today, all animations worked, now no animation works. there are no errors in the console. when debugging breakpoints, all objects fall into variables

[VSCPlays]

it seems like you did not read my question correctly

@VSCPlays

also is the animation your’s, if not, then that’s probably the issue

[PP_Boat]

it doesn’t work with my or not my animation

[PP_Boat]

on the serverside the animations works fine, but i need to animate mobs only clientside

[PP_Boat]

local function animateMob(mob)
	local humanoid = mob:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local animFolder = mob:WaitForChild("Animations")
	
	if mob and animFolder then
		local runAnim = animFolder:WaitForChild("RunAnim")
		if runAnim then
			local animator = humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
			local walkTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(runAnim)
			local tries = 0
			while wait() and walkTrack.IsPlaying == false do
				tries += 1
				print("Trying to animate: "..tries)
				walkTrack:Play()
				walkTrack:AdjustSpeed(humanoid.WalkSpeed / 10) -- Adjust speed based on walkspeed
			end
		end
	else
		warn("No humanoid/animation folder for", mob.Name)
	end
end

workspace.Map.Mobs.ChildAdded:Connect(animateMob)