How to make the ability animation not play twice?

[phoebes]

I have an animation set up on an ability (unarmed_pickup) which works fine, but that animation plays again at the end of the cooldown period. Is there a way to make it not play twice like that?

Here is what's happening:
The ability I have allows the player to place something on the ground, so it plays the unarmed_pickup animation when they do that. But it has a long cooldown (30 sec) and when that time is over, the player does the unarmed_pickup animation a second time just because the timer ended on the cooldown - they're not using the ability again, the time is just up on the cooldown.

I couldn't find anything in the settings. Does anyone know how to turn this off?

[FleshyOverlord]

Could you post your code that controls the animation.

[phoebes]

There is no code for the animation. It's built in. It's the animation that comes with Abilities - when you add an Ability(that comes with Core) to a weapon or equipment.

I have the Cooldown time set to 30 seconds in the Ability settings. The animation unarmed_pickup (one of the player animations that comes with core.) is supposed to play right when you cast it, but it's playing again after the Cooldown phase is over. I have seen it do the same with different animations also.

I'm not sure if it will help, but here is the script I have attached to the ability. It just spawns an object at the player. I don't think it would affect the animation.

local healingDome = script:GetCustomProperty("HealingDome")
local WEAPON = script:FindAncestorByType('Weapon')
local IMPACTFX = script:GetCustomProperty("HealDomeImpactFx")


-- function to connect event handlers to ability events 
function ConnectAbilityEvents_SetHealingDome(ability)
	-- hooks on entering each phase
	ability.castEvent:Connect(OnCast_SetHealingDome)
	ability.executeEvent:Connect(OnExecute_SetHealingDome)
	
	ability.recoveryEvent:Connect(OnRecovery_SetHealingDome)
		
	ability.cooldownEvent:Connect(OnCooldown_SetHealingDome)
		
	ability.interruptedEvent:Connect(OnInterrupted_SetHealingDome)
		
	ability.readyEvent:Connect(OnReady_SetHealingDome)
			
end

-- functions called when entering each phase. Add your code inside 
function OnCast_SetHealingDome(ability)
	
	local rayStart = ability.owner:GetWorldPosition()
	local cameraDown = ability.owner:GetWorldRotation() * (-Vector3.UP)
	local rayEnd = rayStart + cameraDown * 10000
		
	local hitResult = World.Raycast(rayStart, rayEnd, {ignorePlayers = true})
		
	if hitResult then
	    local hitPos = hitResult:GetImpactPosition() + Vector3.New(0,0,.1)
	    if IMPACTFX then
    		World.SpawnAsset(IMPACTFX, {position = hitPos})
    	end
	    World.SpawnAsset(healingDome, {position=hitPos}):SetNetworkedCustomProperty("TeamNO", ability.owner.team)
		
	end
end

function OnExecute_SetHealingDome(ability)
	
	-- if isTargetDataUpdated is set to true on ability phase, targetData can be used
	local targetData = ability:GetTargetData()
end

function OnRecovery_SetHealingDome(ability)
	-- print("OnRecovery " .. ability.name)
end

function OnCooldown_SetHealingDome(ability)
	-- print("OnCooldown " .. ability.name)
end

function OnInterrupted_SetHealingDome(ability)
	-- print("OnInterrupted " .. ability.name)
end

function OnReady_SetHealingDome(ability)
	-- print("OnReady " .. ability.name)
end


-- reference to ability object, modify as needed
local myAbility = script.parent

-- call to connect events to ability. 
-- this does not give the ability to player, that need to be handled separately depending on how ability is created in game
ConnectAbilityEvents_SetHealingDome(myAbility)

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[FleshyOverlord]

Is that an image of everything inside of the equipment object?

[phoebes]

Sorry... I just took a screenshot of a basic equipment one just to show what I meant by it being a part of a built-in Ability.

Here is the actual one. There is another ability on it.

But now that I'm running it again, I saw it happen a couple more times, but not any other times. I'm having trouble reproducing it now

I had tried it before in a different game world (I copied/pasted the weapon) and it did the same thing, but now it's not.

I thought it may have been something I had to specify in the ability script or properties. Maybe it's just a bug that hopefully doesn't show up anymore, but I have a feeling that's not how it's gonna work out hehe.