Playing an animation

naderbocker2 · April 21, 2022, 9:46pm

How would I make it where an animation would play on a dummy in workspace. Right now I have a local script in StarterPlayerScripts and a dummy in workspace. I would like the dummy to play a certain animation from the local script but don’t know how to start. Thanks

Valkyrop · April 21, 2022, 9:58pm

You could simply do something like this -

local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local AnimationID = script:WaitForChild('AnimationID')
local Animator =Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")

animation.AnimationId =  "rbxassetid://"..AnimationID.AnimationID
local real= Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
real.Looped = true
real:Play()

In this case, that animation is for R15.
You could do the same with R6 with some accordingly changes.

Lecidious · April 21, 2022, 9:59pm

All you have to do is load the animation onto the local dummy’s Animator (make sure to put an animator instance in the dummies humanoid). With the follow code in a local script in the player’s character:

local dummy = "grab your dummy from it's location"
local humanoid = dummy:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Animator = humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId =  "rbxassetid://id goes here"
local track = Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
track.Looped = true
track:Play()

Lecidious · April 21, 2022, 10:00pm

I wouldn’t recommend making the server do animations, just have every client handle their own animation for the dummy.

Valkyrop · April 21, 2022, 10:02pm

In this example it doesnt really matter, he can play it from both sides. If it was more complicated, then it’d have been a different case.

Lecidious · April 21, 2022, 10:04pm

In this case yea, but no need to teach bad practices, in a real game the server rarely ever does animations. Also, don’t use Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation). Cut out the middle man and go straight to the Animator. If you call Humanoid:LoadAnimation(), it’ll have to check if an animator exists or not, excess code being ran when it’s not needed.

naderbocker2 · April 21, 2022, 10:29pm

Thanks but its giving me an error "AnimationID is not a valid member of Animation “Workspace.Character1.Script.AnimationID”

Valkyrop · April 21, 2022, 10:59pm

Not on PC right now, but replace AnimationID with the property that resembles where you put the ID of the animation.

naderbocker2 · April 21, 2022, 11:50pm

I did that I think.

And this is the script im using -

local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local AnimationID = script:WaitForChild('AnimationID')
local Animator = Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")

animation.AnimationId =  "rbxassetid://"..AnimationID.AnimationID
local real = Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
real.Looped = true
real:Play()

Still giving me the same error by the way.

TenBlocke · April 22, 2022, 12:14am

The animation under the script IS the animation, your animation’s AnimationId property has to have the id of the animation you want to play or it loads nil

local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local AnimationID = script:WaitForChild('AnimationID')-- This IS the animation but it's AnimationId property is nil
local Animator = Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")

animation.AnimationId =  "rbxassetid://"..AnimationID.AnimationID
local real = Animator:LoadAnimation(AnimationID)
real.Looped = true
real:Play()

TenBlocke · April 22, 2022, 12:17am

Check out these articles which have basics of loading and playing animations
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/Animator/LoadAnimation
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Animation/AnimationId

naderbocker2 · April 22, 2022, 12:20am

Ok thanks, I ended up fixing it. Thank you everyone else as well.