"Play is not a valid member of Animation."

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1

Hey. I’ve come across a problem while trying to make a way to have a combat system without a tool which was a first time for me. I get a message “Play is not a valid member of Animation” while running the script.
I’ve read a few topics about it but I couldn’t figured it out since I’ve loaded an animation to the character and tried to follow other solutions.

The script:


local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character
local hum = player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

local repStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local cEvent = repStorage.CombatEvent

local CombatAnim = Instance.new("Animation",hum)
CombatAnim.AnimationId= "rbxassetid://5712562366"
local Combat = hum:LoadAnimation(CombatAnim)

local function punch()
	CombatAnim:Play()
end

mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
	punch()
end)

I followed a tutorial for a large portion but I don’t want to directly copy so I tried to make it slightly different.

2

It should be Combat:Play() instead of CombatAnim:Play()

3

Oh, it was that simple. Thanks.

4

It’s also advised not to use the 2nd argument in Instance.new, because apparently it’s bad practice. You should set all of the properties, and THEN parent it:

local CombatAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
CombatAnim.AnimationId= "rbxassetid://5712562366"
CombatAnim.Parent = hum