SimpleAnimate | An easy-to-use & flexible module replacement for the default Animate script

athar_adv · February 9, 2025, 4:55pm

I didn’t

spookwallyjungle · February 9, 2025, 4:56pm

O i mean, it’s they are disabled with the “–”

athar_adv · February 9, 2025, 4:58pm

Yes, it is intentional. If you wish to use them just uncomment it

spookwallyjungle · February 9, 2025, 8:24pm

Do you think this would work if i use it on a npc from the server?

athar_adv · February 10, 2025, 1:54am

Yes. It shouldnt break (charlimir)

TimeFrenzied · February 10, 2025, 5:04am

I was about to ask the same question! Was this added silently? (Also can you update the documentation, the setjumpduration and waitforrig thing isnt there either)

Nitpick, but do you think that you can provide two different modules for R6 and R15 so that all we have to do is delete one module instead of uncommenting R6’s table and deleting R15’s table?

athar_adv · February 10, 2025, 5:09am

Yeah i silently added it, will update docs soon

Sure, just need to finish my gamejam game (today is deadline day )

TimeFrenzied · February 10, 2025, 5:14am

Wait didn’t the theme just get announced 3 days ago? I forgot how short the time limit was, dang.

Did you silently add anything else you can think of?

athar_adv · February 10, 2025, 9:57am

Yeah the game is gonna be pretty short but sweet

Nope : P

TheObby_Conquer0r · February 11, 2025, 1:44am

So i require the controller module from a localscript named Animate in StarterCharacterScripts and make a new controller while passing in the character.

When i test the game it errors, saying something about a sanitized ID

spookwallyjungle · February 11, 2025, 1:50am

Hii, while i was doing a walk and idle animation on low health, i noticed these things :

The Idle Animation Doesn’t plays when they are changed with ChangePoseAnim(), The Same Goes when changing the walk animation, and also, if you decide to implement or fix this, you could make it so when you are standing, it plays the idle, when walking, the walk anim and when running (based on the run threshold) it plays the respective animation

that’s my suggestion

also my codes goes something like this

if Hum.Health <= Low_Tracks["Phase1"]["RequiredHealth"] then
			if statevalue.Value == "severed" then return end
			statevalue.Value = "severed"
			
			PoseController:ChangePoseAnim("Walk", 1, Low_Tracks["Phase1"]["Animations"]["lowHealthWalk"])
			
			PoseController:ChangePoseAnim("Idle", 1, Low_Tracks["Phase1"]["Animations"]["lowHealthIdle"])
			PoseController:ChangePoseAnim("Idle", 2, Low_Tracks["Phase1"]["Animations"]["lowHealthIdle"])
			
		--	PoseController:ChangePose("Idle", 1, false)
			
			warn("severed")
		else
			if statevalue.Value == "normal" then return end
			statevalue.Value = "normal"
			
			PoseController:ChangePoseAnim("Walk", 1, default_Tracks["Animations"]["Walk"])

			PoseController:ChangePoseAnim("Idle", 1, default_Tracks["Animations"]["Idle"])
			PoseController:ChangePoseAnim("Idle", 2, default_Tracks["Animations"]["Idle"])
			warn("normal")
		end

Plus, i tried using ChangePose but it doesn’t works

athar_adv · February 11, 2025, 4:56am

Hmmm, maybe its something with the fact that i accidentally used my own anims in the Animations module? Idk, just try replacing the anim ids with your own

athar_adv · February 11, 2025, 4:57am

Ahh yeah i should definitely make it so that if you change the pose anim it instantly applies the changes, currently you need to call :StopCore() to apply them : P Will be updated soon once I get home

TimeFrenzied · February 11, 2025, 5:29am

Tell when it’s updated!

I do want to ask, why are the function names so inconsistent? Like there’s ChangePose() then ChangePoseAnim() then PlayAnimation() and GetRandomAnim.

You should use more consistent wording for the names, don’t worry if they’re long since the autocorrect carries.

ChangePoseAnim could be interchangeable with ChangeCorePose or ChangeCoreAnimation, for example. PlayAnimation could be interchangeable with PlayPose, OverridePose, or OverrideAnimation. These would honestly all mean the exact same thing.

All of these are generally the same, but swap wording between Pose and Animation. Why? It honestly just makes it look confusing and messy (IMO, no hate)

What is “pose?” It’s normally under a poseType, but it’s a string, so what is it supposed to be? Wouldn’t this be more useful if we could just pass an animTable?

Also, shouldn’t this be an Action (or a function for actions?) I feel like it would be way more useful to get a random pose for an action than a core animation. This could also be useful when changing a core animation during runtime, but I feel like it’d be better if you only had to load them after they were picked by this function.

Also, passing a list of animationTracks means they would have to be loaded into the animator already.

For ChangePoseAnim(),

function PoseController:ChangePoseAnim(pose: PoseType, index: number, anim: AnimationTrack)
	self._anims[pose][index].anim = anim
end

If we’re passing an AnimationTrack that means that the module won’t automatically handle preloading or anything? I mean it’s fine but automatic management would be useful to prevent loading the same animation multiple times. Same for .new().

if .fromExisting has no existing rig, it should probably return .new(rig) instead of nil.

You should actually add support for both R15 and R6 by default, since there are games that have both. This behavior can be manually configured by the user to remove one.

local anims = if Humanoid.RigType == Enum.HumanoidRigType.R6 then {R6ANIMS} else {R15ANIMS}

If you can, you should also try to add support for the user’s selected animation pack, but I might be asking too much.

spookwallyjungle · February 11, 2025, 5:41am

Oh also, I noticed the Speed Run threshold is a bit inaccurate, what do i mean with this, sometimes i plays the run animation, why?, because the .Running connection gives a speed, a speed that decreases and increases everytime the character moves, that well, it’s kinda chaotic , from 10 to 16, and so on, and sometimes it gives 16.35, So yeah, u can test it yourself by doing “warn(speed)” on the connections, i am no expert but maybe it could be fixed by clamping the value?, but a temporary solution i am doing rn is Connections:SetRunThreshold(17.20), since my default walkSpeed is 16, and when i run with my system, it changes it to 20, so is kinda like it, take your time, the module is great

I agree, would be a lot easier to Store Action animations that way

athar_adv · February 12, 2025, 5:05pm

Alright, will definitely try to implement everything you just suggested! Currenty im kinda busy working on RigController (a Humanoid replacement using character controllers) however Ill find some time to implement these. Ill let you know when its released because i could really use these new features too

Also, the reason for naming conventions between “poses” and “animations” is becuase they are inherently different.

You can play an animation as many times as you want, however poses have to abide by the rules imposed by the PoseController, and also poses determine what animations are to be played.

athar_adv · February 12, 2025, 5:54pm

What even…

Okay so the update might be a little delayed because THis is preventing me from testing the module

athar_adv · February 12, 2025, 6:14pm

k guys the modul is updated with the uh the new stuff… im too sleepy to post any uh cool update stuff or update the docs so uh just know the new features r there

and you just gotta figure it out for yourself ok AVAILABLE ON THE MARKETPLACE AND DOWNLOAD ok bye zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

athar_adv · February 20, 2025, 11:34am

Update:

Fixed a very major issue regarding the Action module not properly preloading animations and instead just erroring : P, I also made it so that doPreload is enabled by default for Action:Create() and AnimationController.new(), and must be explicitly specified as false if you wish to not preload (if already preloaded, for example)
Changed the Preload utility module to have 2 functions, preloadAnimList and preloadAnimArray (the former accepts a dictionary of anim arrays, the latter just accepts an array itself)

WIP:

User-specified animations and animation packages
Emote wheel usability (probably not possible but I’ll try)

Update is available on the package link for those who downloaded the module, and is also available on the marketplace.

Fokpilevrai · February 23, 2025, 8:48pm

hello thank you for your module it’s really cool!
but I can’t figure how to use the action module
i tried to do this

animEvent.Event:Connect(function(value: string)
	if value == "outFloor" then
		local animInfo = {
			["outFloor"] = {
				{id="136608518018924", weight = 10}
			}
		}
		animator.Action:Create("outFloor", animInfo, true, Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4)
	end
end)

but i get this error :

ReplicatedStorage.Scripts.AnimationController.Utility.Preload:9: attempt to concatenate string with nil - Serveur - Preload:9

if you can help me, thanks!