Best way to read mobile thumbstick input?

[V_ChampionSSR (V_Champion)]

Been on my mind for a while though never got around to figuring out if there is a better way to read the thumbstick movement on a mobile device. The current way I’d figure is to read the MoveDirection property in the Humanoid, but I’m wondering if there is an alternative to this.

Thanks in advance

[Forummer]

Is this the correct way to use to find mobile joystick movement

If you try to print out the KeyCode, it prints Enum.KeyCode.Unknown and the if-statement will never be true. I recommend what histo_rical said and using those would be a more viable method. However, there is a problem with this method because if you even tap the screen outside of the bounding box of the joystick you will still get it to fire, which is not what you want. Using TouchMoved would be more realistic as it only fires when the player moves their finger, however, this is still not the b…

[V_ChampionSSR (V_Champion)]

Originally, I had thought MoveDirection had provided the values that I needed, but this was not the case. What I was looking for is to directly read input data from the dynamic thumbstick given to mobile clients. I figured out that I can do this by requiring the PlayerModule and using the following code:

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local PlayerModule = require(Player.PlayerScripts.PlayerModule)

print(PlayerModule:GetControls():GetMoveVector()) -- Returns what I needed