Reload Animation Buggy

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I am working on a reload animation for a weapon. Currently, there are two mags (one is off-screen, one is visible and attached to the gun). When I reload, it takes the off-screen mag, removes the mag in the gun, places the new mag into the gun and discards the old mag.

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    Because of how roblox plays animations, it instantly teleports the old mag to the new mag,which is very visible.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I have tried to, but haven’t found any that talk on this topic explicitly.

#2

Could you please include a little bit of the script? Thanks.

#3

Sure, sorry for the late response. It’s a bit of a mess:


local function SameAnimCheck(Name, DontStopAnim)
			--This function runs an approximate check only. Direct not needed here as the table it's looking through is very small.
			if Name == nil then
				for _, v in ipairs(CurrentAnims) do
					local match = string.match(v.Name, "(.*)"..AnimationName)
					print(match)
					if match and not(DontStopAnim) then
						print(v.Name)
						--print(match)
						v:Stop()
					elseif match and DontStopAnim then
						print("Returning true to indicate animation is playing")
						return true
					end
				end
			else
				for _, v in ipairs(CurrentAnims) do
					local match = string.match(v.Name, "(.*)"..Name)
					print(match)
					if match then
						print(v.Name)
						--print(match)
						v:Stop()
					end
				end
			end
		end

local function StopOtherAnims(TableToIgnore, StopRef)
			for _, v in ipairs(CurrentAnims) do
				local TableMatch = false
				local match = string.match(v.Name, "(.*)"..AnimationName)
				print(match)
				if not match then
					
					if TableToIgnore then
						for _, x in ipairs(TableToIgnore) do
							local Lookup = string.match(v.Name, x)
							if Lookup then
								print(Lookup)
								print(x)
								print(v.Name)
								TableMatch = true
							end
						end
					end
					if TableToIgnore and TableMatch then
						print("Name in table to ignore")
					else
						print(v.Name)
						if string.match(v.Name, "Ref") and StopRef == nil then
							print("Ref found, will not stop.")
						else
							v:Stop()
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end

local AnimationTrack
		if Animation ~= nil then
			if Animation.Parent.Name == "SharedAnimations" and RefCheck() then
				local RefAnimationTrack = Animator:LoadAnimation(AnimFinder("Ref"))
				RefAnimationTrack.Looped = true
				RefAnimationTrack:Play()
			end
			if AnimationName == "Walk" then
				local IsWalkPlaying = SameAnimCheck(nil, true)
				if not IsWalkPlaying then
					StopOtherAnims()
					AnimationTrack = Animator:LoadAnimation(Animation)
					AnimationTrack.Looped = true
					AnimationTrack:Play()
				end
			elseif AnimationName == "dblstk_TacReload" or AnimationName == "dblstk_SpdReload" then
				SameAnimCheck()
				StopOtherAnims(nil, true)
				AnimationTrack = Animator:LoadAnimation(Animation)
				AnimationTrack.Looped = false
				AnimationTrack:Play()

Hopefully this helps?