Unable to provide animationclipservice

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    A animation that plays even after the character respawns.
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    The script works fine the first time, however when the character respawns the script is unable to provide animationclipservice.
  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    yes, none worked
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Hum = Character:WaitForChild('Humanoid')
local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Tool = script.Parent
local LSHOLDANIM = Tool:WaitForChild("LSHOLD")
local LSSwing1 = Tool:WaitForChild("LSSwing1")
local LSSwing2 = Tool:WaitForChild("LSSwing2")
local LSSwing3 = Tool:WaitForChild("LSSwing3")
local Equipped = false
local Debounce = false
-- Load anims
local Swing1 = Hum:LoadAnimation(LSSwing1)
local Swing2 = Hum:LoadAnimation(LSSwing2)
local LSHold = Hum:LoadAnimation(LSHOLDANIM)
local Swing3 = Hum:LoadAnimation(LSSwing3)
local animations = {Swing1,Swing2,Swing3}
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Char)
	Character = Char
	Hum = Char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	end)
-- Tool equipped
Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	Equipped = true
	LSHold:Play()
end)
Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	Equipped = false
	LSHold:Stop()
end)

Tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	if Debounce == false and Equipped then
		print("r")
		RS.swordevent:FireServer()
		Debounce = true
		animations[math.random(1,3)]:Play()
		wait(3)
		Debounce = false
	end
end)

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#2 
repeat wait() until Player.Character
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

This should work.
It know it seems like the exact same thing but for some reason LocalScripts within the StarterPack act very strange when trying to deal with the Character, and this fixes it for some reason.

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#3

I had a similar issue with the exact error, fixed it by referencing the character to

local character = workspace:FindFirstChild(Player.Name)
#4

You can remove the repeat wait() loop, it does basically the same thing as CharacterAdded:Wait(), but CharacterAdded is faster and generally a standard for waiting for the character to load.

#5

I know it does but for some reason it fixes this issue, it’s strange. That’s why instead of loading any of my tools from StarterPack I just load them from the server with a CharacterAdded function, so none of these strange errors occur.