When Making A Tool, Imported Blender Animation Plays On Dummy/Character, But Not On Tool/Weapon

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Hello friends,

I’m finally deciding to make a roblox game of some sort. I know this’ll take a while, and for now I’m solo. I know there’s (sadly) a million ways to do one thing when it comes to scripting and such. Let me get to the point, apologies.
Now, I’ve modeled a simple sword on Blender, added Textures using Adobe Substance Painter 3D, yadda yadda. Basically, I have a sword.
I’ve followed some tutorials for adding the sword to your roblox character by creating a pseudo handle, setting the transparency of that “part” on the handle of the sword, welding it, joining it, parenting the handle to the right arm, yadda yadda the basics! The “duh” if you will.
I’m no stranger to exporting animations from Blender to Roblox Studio using the plugin everyone uses, Blender Animations by CAUTIONED
Blender Animations (ultimate edition) - Creator Store
So, I’ve imported my animation (with the weapon) from Blender to Roblox Studio, and can play the animation with that plugin, or Moon Animator.

Now, I am aware of the fact that in order to make the sword… y’know, holdable, if you will, you would need to make it a tool. This is when I’ve started searching YouTube videos on how to do this oh-so-simple task to save myself from asking silly questions to the public. Well, I’ve sucessfully managed to make my sword into a tool, either spawning with it in my inventory, or picking it up from the ground. I’ve managed to add my simple idle animation I’ve made in Blender to the idle animation in use when I hold out the weapon or tool, but… Imagine the default Roblox hold tool look. That’s how it looks in my hand, AND it’s not doing the animation I’ve created in Blender, or in the video above. instead, the animation or whatever’s goin on is holding the sword flat in the bottom center of the roblox right hand, just like the default holding pose, here’s a picture along with a video.

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I maybe should also mention that when I unequip the tool, the animation that was playing just… stays, making me glide across the ground. I have seen a youtube video, where the youtuber was aware of this issue and corrected the script in the pinned comment, but I’m not familiar with merging scripts or mixing them or anything of that nature. That’s why I feel like I should mention it here.

Here’s a video showing the pseudo handle welded or parented to the sword, and then welded or parented to the dummy characters, playing the animation it’s supposed to, in a position it’s supposed to be.

So, from where I am now, I don’t know where to start achieving what I’m trying to solve. I know it’s probably super easy, but i can’t find any updated or relevant videos or guides to achieve this, either they not work, or made in 1800BC. That’s why I mentioned how there’s a million ways to do one thing it seems, and there’s always effecient ways to do things. I’m inspired by Roblox games such as Type://Soul, Ghoul://RE, Demon Hunter, Age of Honor, and ABA if that matters. I’m really influenced on the whole fighting/sword combat games. Just trying to figure out how to make a combat system, but if I watch a whole bunch of tutorials, which I typically do, everything in the end would be super scrambeled and unorganized and random and I’m really trying to avoid that from happening. Two tutorials on the same subject with totally different scripts? I don’t understand.

All the tutorials and videos I’ve watched are simply exporting your rig with weapon to Blender, yadda yadda, putting it back into roblox showing the animation, and that’s all they do. Play/Show the animation in Roblox Studio. But I can barely find tutorials on how to make that exact animation WITH your weapon as an idle animation or even an attack animation or anything of that nature, so this is a last resort for me, asking Dev Forums and lookin’ like a lost puppy :frowning:

If it matters, here are a few of many videos I’ve watched trying to achieve what I want. I’m not trying to do anything super special, maybe I’m searching wrong, maybe not using correct search terms or something, I dunno.


I’m not sure what else to say. If anything I should say I’m just a baby at this scripting stuff! I believe that if there’s a will, there’s a way! No, I’m not asking to design entire systems for me, or asking people to write entire scripts for me or anything, roblox says I shouldn’t so I won’t. I just intend to know the most effective way to do this nonsense.

Also, can I ask one favor? If someone else already gave an answer or anything, I still would like to know what you or other people think! Can I ask to keep the replies coming? I see lots of threads where someone asks a question, someone answers it, and despite all the views on the post, the discussion ends, not even fixing some viewers problems and such. I know other people might relate to my probably silly question.


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This is the script I have, Inside of Tool, under StarterPack.

local tool = script.Parent
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character
local hum = char.Humanoid
local amine = script.Animation

local animeplay = hum:LoadAnimation(amine)

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
animeplay:Play()
end)

I just don’t get it… why does it say anime, amine, like wat
Thank you. With love, Rammy.

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It’s likely one of these two issues, your script doesn’t seem to be destroying the weld Roblox forcefully adds in, otherwise another issue can be the Motor6D doesn’t have the same name as it does in Moon Animator

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What could I do instead? do you think you could point me in the correct direction eheh

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I’d try the first solution, when the tool is equipped run a line of code that waits for a weld named “RightGrip” in the player’s right arm and destroy or disable it. Should look something like this:

Character["Right Arm"]:WaitForChild("RightGrip").Enabled = false
or
Character["Right Arm"]:WaitForChild("RightGrip"):Destroy()

Sadly because Roblox forces this you have to do it on the server as well for it to work on the server, though not required it’s recommended to do it on the client aswell as it feels better overall.

Also looking at it again your script doesn’t set a Motor6D to the player’s arm, I recommend doing that (feel free to ask if you don’t know how)

There might be other ways around it this is just how I do it, might be wrong but I think disabling “RequiresHandle” in the tool makes it so that it doesn’t create the weld

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I may have to ask you how, sawri. also is there any way you can show me visually how you’ve achieved this?

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Sorry for the late reply, anyways I assume your entire tool is one single part but if not make sure every other part is welded to the main part you want to add the Motor6D to.

To add the Motor6D just lookup “Motor6D” in the Search Object menu and insert it into the main part, once that is done make sure you have the same properties as the Motor6D from the animation rig, including the Part0 or Part1 property, though make sure it’s set to ONLY the tool not the arm.

Now for scripting!
When the tool is equipped, either with a variable or by getting it directly set the (Part0 or Part1 depending on which one is being used for the Handle) to the player’s arm that wields the weapon, not sure if you have to but you can optionally set the Part0 or Part1 to nil when the weapon is unequipped.

Also just a note, you do have to do this both on the server and client for it to play the animation instantly for the client and other players, kind of annoying but make sure to do that!