Animation won't play, need some help

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Godot 4.3

For some reason this particular animation won’t play. I have no idea why this doesn’t work, could someone help?

if Input.is_action_just_pressed("attack2"):
	$Animations.play("Knife")
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A few things to check:

  • Is the condition Input.is_action_just_pressed("attack2") okay? Maybe the animation instruction works fine, but is just not called.
  • Is the $Animations node correctly get? I guess so since you’re saying that particular animation doesn’t work, meaning you’re using $Animations elsewhere, but I cannot tell without more code.
  • Is Knife the exact animation name?
  • If everything is working fine in the code you’ve shared, the issue can also come from another animation playing right after “Knife”, for instance in a process function, which would look like the Knife animation doesn’t work, but is actually just overriden.

Let me know if that helps! If not, feel free to share more code/context :slight_smile:

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Sorry the code was vauge.

I could try doing the $Animations code again, but not the “Knife” part, I checked to see if that was the right name like 5 times. If I try and press the button while testing it only plays one frame of the animation before going back to idle.

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If it plays for a frame and goes back to another animation, either your knife animation lasts for one frame (which would be weird so I guess it’s not that), or another animations plays right after, overriding the knife animation.
Are you playing your idle animation in process?

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well I did consider that this line of code is in another script, meaning the idle is still playing while the knife animation tries to play.

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but now it only restarts the current animation, never playing knife animation though