# Animations only plays when people look at the model

**URL:** https://ask.vrchat.com/t/animations-only-plays-when-people-look-at-the-model/42732
**Category:** Help!
**Tags:** avatar, bug, vrchat
**Created:** [April 8, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://ask.vrchat.com/t/animations-only-plays-when-people-look-at-the-model/42732 "2025-04-08T21:18:05Z")
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### Author: ![Pigatto7](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/vrchat/user_avatar/ask.vrchat.com/pigatto7/32/38864_2.png) [@Pigatto7](https://ask.vrchat.com/u/Pigatto7)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://ask.vrchat.com/t/animations-only-plays-when-people-look-at-the-model/42732/1 "2025-04-08T21:18:05Z")

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This is my first avatar in vrchat and it is a generic rig.

I added multiple bool animations in the action menu, and all of them play just normal for me and other people, but when I play any animations when people are not looking at the model, the animation only starts playing for other people when they look at the model again.

So if I play a backflip animation, even if the animation already played and the model is not moving anymore, the person that was not looking at the model the moment I played the animation turns to look at it, they will see the model start doing the backflip animation, but for me the animation already played, like a synchrony problem.

I have no idea what to do anymore.