Problem Loading Animations After Death

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#1

Hi Everyone,
I’m having an issue where I can’t load animations after the player dies. When I try, I get this error message:
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And, if I could, I’d do what the other forum posts said, which is to load the animations inside a tool.Equipped function or use character.AncestryChanged, but the problem is that I’d be using the animations from outside the function, and I wouldn’t have access to them. I’ve looked at multiple forums but nothing seems to solve my problem exactly. All help is appreciated, thank you :happy1:

-->> Servies
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")  print("UIS loaded...")

-->> PlayerInfo
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer  print("Player loaded...")
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()  print("Character loaded...")

repeat wait() until character.AncestryChanged

local hum = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local rootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local defaultAnim = character:WaitForChild("Animate")

-->> Misc
local tool = script.Parent
local debounce = false
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

-->> Animations
local swordAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
swordAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7063201015​"
local swordAnimTrack = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(swordAnim)

local rapidSwordAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
rapidSwordAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7069526371​"
local rapidAnimTrack = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(rapidSwordAnim)

local swordFinal = Instance.new("Animation")
swordFinal.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7118859846​"
local finalTrack = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(swordFinal)

-- Below is key detection using the UIS, and that's where the animations are used
#2

i think you should remove this, its the preset format for posts

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#3

Thank you, I must’ve missed it

#4

EDIT: I think I fixed your problem. The ancestry of a player doesn’t change so character.AncestryChanged would probably do nothing. I would suggest using hum.Died to reload everything. Here is the script. I tested it out on a tool in StarterPack and no errors came up. I reset and all 3 things were printed.

-->> Services
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")  print("UIS loaded...")

-->> PlayerInfo
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer  print("Player loaded...")
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()  print("Character loaded...")
local hum = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local rootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local defaultAnim = character:WaitForChild("Animate")


hum.Died:Wait()

-->> Misc
local tool = script.Parent
local debounce = false
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

-->> Animations
local swordAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
swordAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7063201015​"
local swordAnimTrack = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(swordAnim)

local rapidSwordAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
rapidSwordAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7069526371​"
local rapidAnimTrack = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(rapidSwordAnim)

local swordFinal = Instance.new("Animation")
swordFinal.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7118859846​"
local finalTrack = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(swordFinal)
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#5

Are you sure the animations loaded? I can’t test it unfortunately since I’m in bed but I’d think that nothing below ‘hum.Died’ would fire until the humanoid dies

#6

Ok, I’ll make some basic animations and test it out more.

#7

Well, I’ve gotta get to bed. Theres 2 things that might be stopping it. 1: A new humanoid is created so it sets the hum variable to nil. 2: The error refers to descendants which could mean that the tool and player fail the second or more times. The script:

-->> Services
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")  print("UIS loaded...")

-->> PlayerInfo
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer  print("Player loaded...") 
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local hum = character.Humanoid
local rootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local defaultAnim = character:WaitForChild("Animate")

local swordAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
swordAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7134749068​"
local swordAnimTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(swordAnim)

local rapidSwordAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
rapidSwordAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7134753398​"
local rapidAnimTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(rapidSwordAnim)

local swordFinal = Instance.new("Animation")
swordFinal.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://7134757681​"
local finalTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(swordFinal)
-->> Misc
local tool = script.Parent
local debounce = false
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	local randomNum = math.random(1, 3)
	print(randomNum)
	if randomNum == 1 then
		swordAnimTrack:Play()
		print("Done")
	end
	if randomNum == 2 then
		rapidAnimTrack:Play()
		print("Done")
	end
	if randomNum == 3 then
		finalTrack:Play()
		print("Done")
	end
end)

hum.Died:Connect(function()
	print("No player found!")
	player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	character = player.Character
end)
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#8

Hmm, ok. Thanks for the effort, I’ll be sure to try to figure it out tomorrow!

#9

You need to redefine the humanoid every time the player dies because it doesn’t exist anymore

#10

So, how is that different from this?
local hum = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
Since that runs before the animations load I’d figure that it achieves what you said