Npc Animations Overiding Other Animations

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Hello,

I am making a tower defense game and I want the towers to have attack and idle animations. They are already animated but when I try to implement them I believe they override each other. But it only seems to be affecting the arms.


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This is the script that tells the tower to play the idle animation

local function setAnimation(object, animName)
	local humanoid = object:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local animationsFolder = object:WaitForChild("Animations")
	
	if humanoid and animationsFolder then
		local animationObject = animationsFolder:WaitForChild(animName)
		
		if animationObject then
			local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChild("Animator") or Instance.new("Animator", humanoid)
			
			local playingTracks = animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()
			for i, track in pairs(playingTracks) do
				if track.Name == animName then
					return track
				end
			end
			
			local animationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(animationObject)		
			return animationTrack		
		end
	end
end

local function playAnimation(object, animName)
	local animationTrack = setAnimation(object, animName)
	
	if animationTrack then
		animationTrack:Play()
	else
		warn("Animation track does not exist")
		return
	end
end

workspace.Towers.ChildAdded:Connect(function(object) -- HERE
	playAnimation(object, "Idle")
end)

animateTowerEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(tower, animName, target)
	playAnimation(tower, animName)
	if target then
		if tower.Config:FindFirstChild("Trail") then
			fireProjectile(tower, target)
		end
		tower.HumanoidRootPart.Attack:Play()
	end
end)

This is the script that tells the tower to play the attack animation.

function tower.Attack(newTower, player)
	local config = newTower.Config
	local target = tower.FindTarget(newTower, config.Range.Value, config.TargetMode.Value)
	
	if target and target:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and target.Humanoid.Health > 0 and target:FindFirstChild("IsHidden") then
		
		if config:FindFirstChild("SeeHidden") then
			local targetCFrame = CFrame.lookAt(newTower.HumanoidRootPart.Position, target.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
			newTower.HumanoidRootPart.BodyGyro.CFrame = targetCFrame

			animateTowerEvent:FireAllClients(newTower, "Attack", target) -- HERE

			player.Gold.Value += math.min(config.Damage.Value, target.Humanoid.Health)
			target.Humanoid:TakeDamage(config.Damage.Value)  
			player.Kills.Value += 1 
			task.wait(config.Cooldown.Value)
		end
	elseif target and target:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and target.Humanoid.Health > 0 and not target:FindFirstChild("IsHidden") then
		local targetCFrame = CFrame.lookAt(newTower.HumanoidRootPart.Position, target.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
		newTower.HumanoidRootPart.BodyGyro.CFrame = targetCFrame

		animateTowerEvent:FireAllClients(newTower, "Attack", target)  -- HERE

		player.Gold.Value += math.min(config.Damage.Value, target.Humanoid.Health)
		target.Humanoid:TakeDamage(config.Damage.Value)
		player.Kills.Value += 1 
		task.wait(config.Cooldown.Value)
	end

	task.wait(0.05)
	
	if newTower and newTower.Parent then
		tower.Attack(newTower, player)
	end
end

I am unfamiliar with how animations work. Is there perhaps a way to pause the idle animation whilst the tower is attacking and vice versa?

Any help is appreciated