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AnimationController
Inherits from: Instance → Object
An object which allows animations to be loaded and applied to a character or model in place of a Humanoid. Creates an Animator and loads animations to update Motor6Ds of said character to react in the way that is described within the animation asset referenced by an Animation object.
Note that the LoadAnimation() method of this class has been deprecated. Instead, you should call Animator:LoadAnimation() directly from an Animator which can be created manually in Studio and directly referenced in scripts. When the deprecated method is called from an AnimationController, the controller itself does nothing regarding the animation intended to be loaded, except to automatically generate an Animator, onto which the loading call and animation ID are transferred. In this way, the AnimationController can be thought of as nothing more than an empty shell for a child Animator object which handles any actual functionality regarding animations.
Inherits from: Instance
Memory category: Animation
Code samples: View on Creator Hub (AnimationController).
Methods
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AnimationController:GetPlayingAnimationTracks | Array | Returns an array of all AnimationTracks that are currently being played by the AnimationController. |
| AnimationController:LoadAnimation | AnimationTrack | Loads an Animation onto an AnimationController, returning an AnimationTrack that can be used for playback. |
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance:AddTag | () | Applies a tag to the instance. |
| Instance:children | Instances | Returns an array of the object's children. |
| Instance:ClearAllChildren | () | This method destroys all of an instance's children. |
| Instance:Clone | Instance | Create a copy of an instance and all its descendants, ignoring instances that are not Archivable. |
| Instance:clone | Instance | |
| Instance:Destroy | () | Sets the Instance.Parent property to nil, locks the Instance.Parent property, disconnects all connections, and calls Destroy() on all children. |
| Instance:destroy | () | |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestor | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance.Name is equal to the given name. |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestorOfClass | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Object.ClassName is equal to the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstChild | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name. |
| Instance:findFirstChild | Instance | |
| Instance:FindFirstChildOfClass | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance whose ClassName is equal to the given class name. |
| Instance:FindFirstChildWhichIsA | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstDescendant | Instance? | Returns the first descendant found with the given Instance.Name. |
| Instance:GetActor | Actor? | Returns the Actor associated with the Instance, if any. |
| Instance:GetAttribute | Variant | Returns the value which has been assigned to the given attribute name. |
| Instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes. |
| Instance:GetAttributes | Dictionary | Returns a dictionary of the instance's attributes. |
| Instance:GetChildren | Instances | Returns an array containing all of the instance's children. |
| Instance:getChildren | Instances | |
| Instance:GetDebugId | string | Returns a coded string of the debug ID used internally by Roblox. |
| Instance:GetDescendants | Instances | Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance. |
| Instance:GetFullName | string | Returns a string describing the instance's ancestry. |
| Instance:GetStyled | Variant | Returns the styled or explicitly modified value of the specified property, or else the default property value if it hasn't been styled/modified. |
| Instance:GetStyledPropertyChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Returns an event that fires when the given style property changes on the instance. |
| Instance:GetTags | Array | Gets an array of all tags applied to the instance. |
| Instance:HasTag | boolean | Check whether the instance has a given tag. |
| Instance:IsAncestorOf | boolean | Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant. |
| Instance:IsDescendantOf | boolean | Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor. |
| Instance:isDescendantOf | boolean | |
| Instance:IsPropertyModified | boolean | Returns true if the value stored in the specified property is not equal to the code-instantiated default. |
| Instance:QueryDescendants | Instances | Returns an array containing all descendants of the instance that match the selector string. |
| Instance:Remove | () | Sets the object's Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants. |
| Instance:remove | () | |
| Instance:RemoveTag | () | Removes a tag from the instance. |
| Instance:ResetPropertyToDefault | () | Resets a property to its default value. |
| Instance:SetAttribute | () | Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value. |
| Instance:WaitForChild | Instance | Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object:GetPropertyChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Get an event that fires when a given property of the object changes. |
| Object:IsA | boolean | Returns true if an object's class matches or inherits from a given class. |
| Object:isA | boolean |
AnimationController:GetPlayingAnimationTracks
Deprecated.
Returns an array of all AnimationTracks that are currently being played by the AnimationController.
A typical use for this function is stopping currently playing tracks using AnimationTrack:Stop().
Note this function will not return AnimationTracks that have loaded but are not playing. If the developer wishes to track these they will need to index them manually. See below for one example of how this could be achieved:
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Array | An array of playing AnimationTracks. |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tags | ["Deprecated"] |
| security | None |
| thread safety | Unsafe |
| capabilities | ["Animation"] |
Code samples: View on Creator Hub (GetPlayingAnimationTracks, AnimationController-GetPlayingAnimationTracks).
AnimationController:LoadAnimation
Deprecated. This function is deprecated in favor of using Animator:LoadAnimation() directly (the Animator may be created while editing or at runtime).
This function loads an Animation onto an AnimationController, returning an AnimationTrack that can be used for playback.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| animation | Animation | The Animation to be used. |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| AnimationTrack |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tags | ["Deprecated"] |
| security | None |
| thread safety | Unsafe |
| capabilities | ["Animation"] |
Code samples: View on Creator Hub (AnimationController).
Events
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AnimationController.AnimationPlayed | Fires whenever the AnimationController begins playing an animation. It returns the AnimationTrack playing. |
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance.AncestryChanged | Fires when the Instance.Parent property of this object or one of its ancestors is changed. | |
| Instance.AttributeChanged | Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance. | |
| Instance.ChildAdded | Fires after an object is parented to this Instance. | |
| Instance.childAdded | ||
| Instance.ChildRemoved | Fires after a child is removed from this Instance. | |
| Instance.DescendantAdded | Fires after a descendant is added to the Instance. | |
| Instance.DescendantRemoving | Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed. | |
| Instance.Destroying | Fires immediately before (or is deferred until after) the instance is destroyed via Instance:Destroy(). | |
| Instance.StyledPropertiesChanged | Fires whenever any style property is changed on the instance, including when a property is set to nil. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object.Changed | Fires immediately after a property of the object changes, with some limitations. |
AnimationController.AnimationPlayed
Deprecated.
This event fires whenever the AnimationController begins playing an animation. It returns the AnimationTrack playing.
The AnimationTrack can be used to access the animation's playback functions and events. It will only fire for animations playing on the specific AnimationController.
See Humanoid.AnimationPlayed for the Humanoid variant of this function.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| animationTrack | AnimationTrack | The AnimationTrack that was played. |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tags | ["Deprecated"] |
| security | None |
| capabilities | ["Animation"] |
Properties
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance.Archivable | boolean | Determines if an Instance and its descendants can be cloned using Instance:Clone(), and can be saved/published. |
| Instance.archivable | boolean | |
| Instance.Capabilities | SecurityCapabilities | The set of capabilities allowed to be used for scripts inside this container. |
| Instance.IsInSandbox | boolean | Indicates whether the instance is inside a sandboxed container. |
| Instance.Name | string | A non-unique identifier of the Instance. |
| Instance.Parent | Instance | Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance. |
| Instance.PredictionMode | PredictionMode | Reflects the client-side prediction mode applied to the instance under server-authoritative physics. |
| Instance.RobloxLocked | boolean | A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects. |
| Instance.Sandboxed | boolean | When enabled, the instance can only access abilities in its Capabilities list. |
| Instance.UniqueId | UniqueId | A unique identifier for the instance. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object.ClassName | string | A read-only string representing the class this Object belongs to. |
| Object.className | string |