Tool Animation Issues

[RusticcRen (rustic)]

Hi, I’m experiencing a few issues with sword animations which are mentioned below:

• Despite preloading animations, the sword animation doesn’t play till after the player moves then stops. The animation priority is set to ‘Idle’.

• The idle animation doesn’t stop playing after the sword is unequipped till the player moves then stops.

LocalScript:

-- Locations
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Sword : Tool = script.Parent

-- Player
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character
local AnimateScript = Character.Animate
local Equipped = false


-- Animations
local ContentProvider = game:GetService("ContentProvider")
local Module = require(ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("RS_Abilities").MainModule)

ContentProvider:PreloadAsync(script:GetChildren())

local SwordIdle = script.SwordIdle.AnimationId
local SwordWalk = script.SwordWalk.AnimationId

-- Sword Toggle
Sword.Equipped:Connect(function()
	AnimateScript.idle.Animation1.AnimationId = SwordIdle
	Equipped = true
end)

Sword.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	AnimateScript.idle.Animation1.AnimationId = Module.Default.IdleAnimation1
	AnimateScript.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = Module.Default.WalkAnimation
	Equipped = false
end)

-- Walk Animations
UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(key, gameProcessedEvent)
	if gameProcessedEvent then return end
	
	if Equipped then
		AnimateScript.walk.WalkAnim.AnimationId = SwordWalk
	end
end)

UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(key, gameProcessedEvent)
	if gameProcessedEvent then return end
	
	if Equipped then
		AnimateScript.idle.Animation1.AnimationId = SwordIdle
	end
end)

[xXShinyGalaxyXx (Gxlzyz)]

Your animations would keep on playing, there’s no line of code that tells the player to stop the animation when equipped or walking.

[xXShinyGalaxyXx (Gxlzyz)]

Here’s an example, you’ll also need to load the animation as well.

local humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local swordIdleTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.SwordIdle)

Sword.Equipped:Connect(function()
    swordIdleTrack:Play()
    Equipped = true
end)

Sword.Unequipped:Connect(function()
    swordIdleTrack:Stop() -- Stop the sword idle animation
    AnimateScript.idle.Animation1.AnimationId = Module.Default.IdleAnimation1
    Equipped = false
end)

[RusticcRen (rustic)]

Hey, thanks for your solution. I was wondering how to get the walk animation to play properly when the LocalScript detects MoveDirection.

Humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(function()
	if Equipped and Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
		SwordWalkTrack:Play()
	elseif Equipped and Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude <= 0 then
		SwordWalkTrack:Stop()
	end
end)

[xXShinyGalaxyXx (Gxlzyz)]

As for me I prefer to put it into a function. You don’t have to do the same.

But instead of elseif it’s better to do else then stop animations. And also if the player moves and the animation doesn’t play and it checks that it’s not playing it will play else it stops the animation

You’ll also need to add
RunService.Heartbeat, it allows you to check the player’s movements.

Examples of how I would do it.

local function checkMovement()
	while true do
		RunService.Heartbeat:Wait()
		if Equipped then
			if Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
				if not SwordWalkAnim.IsPlaying then
					SwordWalkAnim:Play()
				end
			else
				if SwordWalkAnim.IsPlaying then
					SwordWalkAnim:Stop()
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

checkMovement()