Train - Door Animation

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#1

Hey Devforum,
I’ve got a train with door animations made (with the ROBLOX animator) and I’m trying to figure out how to make train door animation play in-game. This issue is, the train needs to stay welded while it animates.(Or else it’ll fall apart) Also, I’d like to not use a new form of animation (Tween or Lerp Etc) as it’ll take too long…
Thanks,
Sasial
PS: I’ve looked through everywhere and have been unable to find out how to do this.

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#2

Assuming that the train doesn’t have a humanoid, you will need an AnimationController in order to control the animation. A HumanoidRootPart as the model’s PrimaryPart is also needed. If you have correctly rigged your train with Motor6Ds and Welds, parts would not fall out during the animation.

I am currently working on animations for an in game crate which grants power ups during gameplay. You could try doing the same thing with your own animation. What I have done is inserted a Script, AnimationController, and an Animation object inside the model (I named mine CrateLandingTest1, this is optional).

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Don’t forget to add your animation ID into the animation object.
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The script will tell the AnimationController to load the animation object, which returns an AnimationTrack. This can be used to play the animation.

local controller = script.Parent.AnimationController
local anim = script.Parent.CrateLandingTest1
local track = controller:LoadAnimation(anim)
track:Play()

Resulting in the following (particle effects were added in later):

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#4

Thanks! I only rigged the doors, not everything.