Player's Idle Animation on NPC Won't Play

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#1

Hey! I have a script that creates an NPC version of a player and I am wondering how I can load their idle animation onto the NPC. I know how to get the player’s idle, but not how to use it.

I have tried several attempts, and using an animation that I own (as in uploaded myself to Roblox) it works, but Roblox’s animations don’t. I also tried the whole copy the “Animation” localscript and then change it to script method but that only plays the default idle - not the player’s idle. I also tried downloading an Idle animation that Roblox made which gave me a group with multiple animations and using one of those worked - but it’s not the full Idle nor do I know how to get that from the full Idle animation ID.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

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#2

You could use Humanoid Description

#3

Take a look at this article and see if it answers any of your questions: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/Animation

#4

That’s what I use to get the animation but it doesn’t work. I am pretty sure it gives me the pack not the actual animation?

#5

Well I have a few things to say.

When you were initially scripting the animation to play on the humanoid, not using the players animate script copy and paste. Was it inside a server or local script?

You can use Animation Controller to play the animations you want onto the NPC.

You can make a server script inside the NPC and manually play the idle animation like this

local animation = script:WaitForChild('Animation')
local humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild('Humanoid')
local idle = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)
idle:Play()

A side note, you can’t animate an NPC using a local script. So the reason why the copy and paste for the animate script wouldn’t work was because local script run only if it’s a descendant of a player instance I think.

So you can

  • Copy and paste the animation script inside the NPC
  • Copy the script using Ctrl + A
  • Insert a server script inside the NPC
  • Paste the script inside the server script and do the following

On lines 714- 752 paste this.

--[[
-- setup emote chat hook
game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.Chatted:connect(function(msg)
	local emote = ""
	if (string.sub(msg, 1, 3) == "/e ") then
		emote = string.sub(msg, 4)
	elseif (string.sub(msg, 1, 7) == "/emote ") then
		emote = string.sub(msg, 8)
	end
	
	if (pose == "Standing" and emoteNames[emote] ~= nil) then
		playAnimation(emote, EMOTE_TRANSITION_TIME, Humanoid)
	end
end)

-- emote bindable hook
if FFlagAnimateScriptEmoteHook then
	script:WaitForChild("PlayEmote").OnInvoke = function(emote)
		-- Only play emotes when idling
		if pose ~= "Standing" then
			return
		end
	
		if emoteNames[emote] ~= nil then
			-- Default emotes
			playAnimation(emote, EMOTE_TRANSITION_TIME, Humanoid)
			
			return true
		elseif typeof(emote) == "Instance" and emote:IsA("Animation") then
			-- Non-default emotes
			playEmote(emote, EMOTE_TRANSITION_TIME, Humanoid)
			return true
		end
		
		-- Return false to indicate that the emote could not be played
		return false
	end
end
 ]]
#6

The id contained in HumanoidDescription.IdleAnimation isn’t an actual animation id which is why this wasn’t working. It returns an id that would bring you to as an example; https://www.roblox.com/catalog/619535834/Zombie-Idle. So I used InsertService to insert it and then grab the actual animation. Which looked like the following:

   local model = game:GetService("InsertService"):LoadAsset(humanoid.HumanoidDescription.IdleAnimation)
   local animation = model.R15Anim.idle.Animation2
   local animationTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)
   animationTrack.Looped = true
   animationTrack:Play()

Which ended up working, thanks for the help!

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