Stopping an animation when a tool is unequipped or changed during an activity

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Making a gathering system, starting with cutting a tree through proximity prompts. Wanting to make this script make the animation stop when the player either unequips the required tool. As the script runs the 5 second animation for cutting the tree when they unequip or change tools.

I assumed the else statement would cause the script to trigger when they are not using the required “hatchet” tool.

local prompt = script.Parent
local animation = game.ReplicatedStorage.Animations.Hatchet.swing1

prompt.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
	local human = player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local loadAnimation = human.Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
	local playermodel = player.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	
	if player.Character:FindFirstChild("Hatchet") and player.Character["Hatchet"]:IsA("Tool") then
		print(player.Name, "is gathering resources.")
		playermodel.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(playermodel.Position, Vector3.new(prompt.Parent.Position.X, playermodel.Position.Y, prompt.Parent.Position.Z))
		prompt.Enabled = false	
		human.WalkSpeed = 0
		loadAnimation:Play()
	
	wait(5)
		
		prompt.Enabled = true
		human.WalkSpeed = 18
		
	else
		player.PlayerGui.NoTool.Enabled = true
		player.PlayerGui.NoTool.NoHatchet.Visible = true
		print("You do not have a hatchet.")
		loadAnimation:Stop()
		
	wait(2)
		
		player.PlayerGui.NoTool.Enabled = false
		player.PlayerGui.NoTool.NoHatchet.Visible = false
	end
end)

Eventually I will want to add resources to a leaderboard when people gather but for now, I’m just working on the basics of the script.

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replace wait(5) with

local twait = 5
local start = tick()
repeat task.wait(0.1)
    until tick() - start > twait or not player.Character:FindFirstChild("Hatchet")
-- stop the anim
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You could probably just do this.

if player.Character:FindFirstChild("Hatchet") and player.Character.Hatchet:IsA("Tool") then
	--- code for animation
elseif player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Hatchet") then
	--- code for stopping animation
end

Also if your animation is 5 seconds long then you can use

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the OP wanted to CANCEL the 5 second animation if the tool is unequipped during it, not check if the tool is equipped

5

Ohh so they want to make the code for chopping tree down stop if its unequipped while its playing. Maybe this might work??

if player.Character:FindFirstChild("Hatchet") and player.Character.Hatchet:IsA("Tool") then
	--- code for animation
	local human = player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local loadAnimation = human.Animator:LoadAnimation(animation) --  what you defined animation as
	player.Character.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
		if child.Name == "Hatchet" and child:IsA("Tool") and loadAnimation.IsPlaying then
			-- code for stopping animation and chopping tree
		end
	end)
	
elseif player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Hatchet") then
	--- not letting chop tree 
end

Edit: Probably should read this if you don’t know that childremoved does.

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Hey, thank you for that, this works exactly as intended.

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