Animation only for server side?

[hidden nacelle]

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I am making a shooter game, and for the dismembering, characters limbs have hitboxes that move together with the animations. For that to work, the animations must happen in server, however, the animations look slightly worse and slower if played through server. Because of that, i have two animate scripts: one for client and one for server, but the animations overlap each other this way.

Is there a way to make an animation play only at the server side, not showing up for client? (Print from server animate)

[fluid sequoia]

make the player rig transparent so its still there and not visible and then in a local script clone the player weld it to the humanoid root part of the real rig and just do animations on that one

because its a local script you will be the only one to see it

theres probably a better way but idk

[hidden nacelle]

I'll keep it in mind, nonetheless

Thx