Tools fail to load animations after player resets/dies

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#1

I have a fancy gun system that I’ve put together that allows third-person shooting and first-person shooting with a viewmodel.

Anyways, when the player dies or resets, the tool fails to animate after equipping it after death.

This error shows in the output console: "Cannot load the AnimationClipProvider Service. "
The error fires from where the script calls LoadAnimation()

It’s just strange because I use the same variable structure to load animations on to other tools just fine with no errors.

Here’s the relevant bit of code from the tool:

local EquipAnimation = Instance.new("Animation");
EquipAnimation.Parent = script.Parent;
EquipAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://12512430973"
EquipAnimation = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(EquipAnimation);
EquipAnimation:SetAttribute("ViewModelAnimation", true);

function EquipGun()
	EquipAnimation:Play();
	GunEquipped = true
	EquipAnimation:GetMarkerReachedSignal("AnimationPause"):Connect(function(Anim)
		EquipAnimation:AdjustSpeed(0);
	end)
end
script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(EquipGun);

Am I doing something wrong?

#2

I think we need a bit more of the code. Something that may be the issue might be the use of FindFirstChild() instead of WaitForChild()

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#3

I’ll just leave the whole code here (localscript in tool):

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer;
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait();
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid");
local PlayerGui = Player.PlayerGui;
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera;

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService");
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage");
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService");
local SpringModule = require(ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Spring"));

local EquipAnimation = Instance.new("Animation");
EquipAnimation.Parent = script.Parent;
EquipAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://12512430973"
EquipAnimation = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(EquipAnimation);
EquipAnimation:SetAttribute("ViewModelAnimation", true);

local ViewModelStorage = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild(Player.Name.."ViewModelStorage")
local ViewModel = Camera:FindFirstChild("ViewModel") or ViewModelStorage:FindFirstChild("ViewModel");

local Offset = Character:WaitForChild("ViewModelController"):WaitForChild("Offset");

local AimSpring = SpringModule.new(0)
AimSpring.Damper = 1
AimSpring.Speed = 20;
-- the faster the speed the faster the gun aims down sights


local Recoil = SpringModule.new(Vector3.new())
Recoil.Speed = 100
-- the lower the recoil speed, the more the gun kicks

local CamRecoil = SpringModule.new(0)
CamRecoil.Speed = 20;
CamRecoil.Damper = 0.8
-- the lower the speed, the more camera recoil there is
-- the lower the damper, the more bounce there is
local PreviousCamTransform = CFrame.new();

local Handle = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Handle");
local AimPart  = script.Parent:WaitForChild("AimPart");
local Aiming = false;
local Gun = script.Parent;
local Muzzle = Gun.Muzzle;
local FireSound = Muzzle:WaitForChild("Fire");

local GunEquipped = false;

function SetRightGripPart0(RightGrip, RightHand)
RightGrip.Part0 = RightHand
end

function FireGun()
	FireSound:Play();
	if (Gun.Parent ~= Character) then return 
	else
	Recoil.Velocity = Vector3.new(0, 0, 12)
	CamRecoil.Velocity = 100
	end
end

function EquipGun()
	EquipAnimation:Play();
	GunEquipped = true
	EquipAnimation:GetMarkerReachedSignal("AnimationPause"):Connect(function(Anim)
		EquipAnimation:AdjustSpeed(0);
	end)
end
script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(EquipGun);

function CheckFirstPerson()
	if Character.Head.LocalTransparencyModifier > 0.6 then
		return true
	else 
		return false
	end
	
end


function UnequipGun()
	Offset.Value = CFrame.new()
	GunEquipped = false;
	ViewModel.Parent = ViewModelStorage;
	EquipAnimation:Stop();
	local Animations = ViewModel.Humanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks();
	for _, ViewModelAnimation in ipairs(Animations) do
		ViewModelAnimation:Stop();
	end
end
Gun.Unequipped:Connect(UnequipGun);

function UpdateViewModel()
	if (script.Parent.Parent ~= Character) then
		AimSpring.Position = 0
		return
	else
		local RightGrip = Character.RightHand:WaitForChild("RightGrip");
		local InFirstPerson = CheckFirstPerson();
		if InFirstPerson and RightGrip.Part0 ~= ViewModel.RightHand then
			RightGrip.Part0 = ViewModel.RightHand;
			print("Set grip to viewmodel")
			ViewModel.Parent = Camera;
		end
		if not InFirstPerson and RightGrip.Part0 ~= Character.RightHand then
			RightGrip.Part0 = Character.RightHand;
			print("Set grip to character")
			ViewModel.Parent = ViewModelStorage;
		end
		local CamTransform = CFrame.fromEulerAnglesXYZ(math.rad(CamRecoil.Position), 0, 0)
		Camera.CFrame = Camera.CFrame * (CamTransform * PreviousCamTransform:Lerp(CFrame.new(), 0.02):Inverse())
		PreviousCamTransform = CamTransform
		local HandleTransform = ViewModel:GetPrimaryPartCFrame():ToObjectSpace(Handle.CFrame)
		local OriginalTransform = HandleTransform * CFrame.new(Recoil.Position) * HandleTransform:Inverse()
		local AimTransform = AimPart.CFrame:ToObjectSpace(Handle.CFrame) * CFrame.new(Recoil.Position) * HandleTransform:Inverse()
		Offset.Value = OriginalTransform:Lerp(AimTransform, AimSpring.Position)
		if Aiming then
			AimSpring.Target = 1
		else
			AimSpring.Target = 0
		end
	end
end
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(UpdateViewModel);






UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input, GameProcessed)
if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2  
	and Character.Head.LocalTransparencyModifier > 0.6 then
	Aiming = true;
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 5;
		UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = false;
	end
	if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		FireGun();
	end
end)
UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(Input, GameProcessed)
if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 
	and Character.Head.LocalTransparencyModifier > 0.6 then
	Aiming = false;
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16;
		UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = true;
end
end)
#4

The error message “Cannot load the AnimationClipProvider Service” suggests that there may be an issue with the animation clip provider service in your game, which is responsible for loading and playing animations.

One potential solution is to try and manually load the AnimationClipProvider service before calling the LoadAnimation() function. You can do this using the following code:

local AnimationClipProvider = game:GetService("AnimationClipProvider")

Then, before calling LoadAnimation(), you can try setting the AnimationClipProvider property of the Humanoid object to the AnimationClipProvider service:

Humanoid.AnimationClipProvider = AnimationClipProvider

If this doesn’t work, there may be another issue with your code.

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#5

I went ahead and gave that a try and I arrive at the error “AnimationClipProvider is not a valid member of Humanoid”

#6

I think this might be an engine bug. Just found another dev forum posting with many people claiming to have suddenly encountered this same issue with their code despite no edits.