RunService.RenderStepped:Connect() is not working

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#1

So I’m currently trying to add animations to my pickaxes, and for some reason, the runservice.RenderStepped isn’t working. It will give me this error,
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I used a local script for the pickaxe animations but I don’t know if I need to use a normal script, so I tried to do that as well but it didn’t work either. I don’t understand RunService as much, so I read RunService.RenderStepped but didn’t give me much help in trying to fix.
Here’s what the script looks like and where it’s located

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--Services
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local RunService game:GetService("RunService")

--Variables
local animations = {script.Parent.Animations.Idle,  --Idle Animation
	script.Parent.Animations.Walk, --Walking Animation
	script.Parent.Animations.Run, --Sprinting Animation
	script.Parent.Animations.Mine --Mining Animation
}
local loadedAnimations = {}
local tool = script.Parent
local hum = player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animator = hum:WaitForChild("Animator")

--Functions
function Update()
	if not loadedAnimations[2] then
		loadedAnimations[2] = animator:LoadAnimation(animations[2])
	end
	
	if hum.Health > 0 and hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude ~= 0 then
		if not loadedAnimations[2].IsPlaying then
			loadedAnimations[2]:Play()
		end
	else
		if loadedAnimations[2].IsPlaying then
			loadedAnimations[2]:Stop()
		end
	end
end

--Set Up
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(Update)

tool.Equipped:Connect(function(mouse)
	
	if not loadedAnimations[1] then
		loadedAnimations[1] = animator:LoadAnimation(animations[1])
	end
	loadedAnimations[1]:Play()
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	loadedAnimations[1]:Stop()
end)

Any help is appreciated!

#2

You probably wanted

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

Without the =, Lua sees a variable declaration (without a value, defaulting to nil) and an unrelated function call.

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#3

oh i completely missed that, i put an = sign there now, im gonna test it and see if it works

#4

it still didn’t work. It gave me the same error again

#5

There’s no way it could throw the same error if RunService isn’t nil. Did you save your changes? Are you sure it’s the same error?

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#6

Oh, apparently the changes didn’t save now it works. hehe my bad, thank you so much for your help though! I truly appreciate it!