Animation not playing with no error

[cloud cradle]

I have been trying to just play a simple animation on the player but i dont understand what i am doing wrong.
I made a simple animation and i made sure to:

1. set priority to "Action"
2. upload the animation to roblox
3. paste the ID inside of a animation instance.
4. have the local script in "starter player scripts"

In my script im trying to load and play the animation on the local players humanoid. No error pops up but the player just doesnt play the animation, or maybe it does and its just not moving the player.

i will provide the script underneath

player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

task.wait(2)

track = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(script.Animation)
track:Play()
print("played")

it prints "played" with no issue but the animation isnt moving the player

[dense dew]

you need to make a animation instance

lemme fix it and provide it for u

[cloud cradle]

i think i know what you mean, let me try it out

[dense dew]

bet

[cloud cradle]

player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://117334367834890"

track = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
track.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action

task.wait(2)

track:Play()
print("played")

is this what you mean? it unfortunately still doesnt work like this

[dense dew]

yes

lemme see

i would define the animator tbh

[deft lance]

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[dense dew]

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid: Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local Animator = Humanoid:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animator")
if not Animator then
    Animator = Instance.new("Animator")
    Animator.Parent = Humanoid
end

oh and also

i think i know why

you see, roblox has been changing the R6 lately, so the new characters need to be changed, thus, you need to get a r6 dummy from the toolbox or make a new animation using ur own imported character with the new r6 they use

it has bugged a lot of games because of this change, it's annoying but what can we do tbh

join vc, lemme show u what i mean

[cloud cradle]

does the r6 block avatar from the built in rig builder not work?

[deft lance]

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[dense dew]

#1316889000253849682

[cloud cradle]

SetDate helped me solve this issue, for anyone who is having the same problem:

1. Create a new rig (r6 or r15 depending on your animations)
2. rename your rig to "StarterCharacter"
3. place your rig inside of "StarterPlayer"
   and thats it!
   the only issue is that your character is now a blank avatar but apparently you can use the players character description and apply that to the blank avatar.

[fathom dune]

you dont even need to do this

this is the script i use for animation of my npc

local ShopNPC = workspace:WaitForChild("shopKeeper")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local ShopAnim = ReplicatedStorage.Anims:WaitForChild("IdleAnim")

local animator = ShopNPC.Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")
local animationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(ShopAnim)

animator.Parent = ShopNPC.Humanoid
animationTrack.Looped = true
animationTrack:Play()

local ShopAnim = ReplicatedStorage.Anims:WaitForChild("IdleAnim")

this is just an animation instance in replicated storage

[cloud cradle]

animating different rigs worked for me too. it was just animating the player that was causing issues

[fathom dune]

use the animate script

use this

for animating players

[cloud cradle]

yeah thats for like locomotion animations which worked for me but i was trying to make like action animations