I don’t want to always force a player to use a certain movement mode, but for the UI’s sake there are specific parts of the game where I’d like to force the thumbstick controls.
When I try to set it I get this
16:03:13.876 - Insufficent permissions to set DevTouchMovementMode
16:03:13.877 - The current identity (2) cannot setDevTouchMovementMode (lacking permission 5)
So, obviously it can’t be set via a local script. I wanted to know if there are any other ways around this?
No, this property is intended to only be modified by higher security context level LocalScripts. Server Scripts aren’t able to either.
Hmm. Any way to detect what player control scheme is selected then, if the setting is set to userchoice?
That’d odd, this article about DevTouchMovementMode showcases changing the movement mode via local script.
I saw that too. Figure it must be outdated or something.
I can maybe guess why they wouldn’t want it changeable client side - Some games may rely on it being scriptable, and if a player changes it via exploit it could cause issues.
But why not server side? >:o
im experiencing the same issue
Unfortunately you can’t do anything about this (that I know of). Apologies
That’s so bad.
I’m trying to make custom buttons for my car game and I’ve used GUI buttons to get the server to control the car’s movement via remoteevents or vehicleseat properties to get it to move like throttle or steer.
Apparently if the devtouchmovementmode is userchoice it means the car will always throttle to 0 and steer to 0 if there’s no input on the thumbstick. I’ve thought of disabling devtouchmovementmode temporarily so that the control gui buttons i’ve made for my car can be used instead.
It doesn’t work! It’s awful.
repeat wait() until game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(game.Players.LocalPlayer.UserId)
repeat wait() print("loading") until game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("OwnedCars", true)
repeat wait() print("looking for cars") until #game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("OwnedCars", true):GetChildren() > 0
local pg = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until plr.Character
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
if (UserInputService.KeyboardEnabled) then
print("The user's device has an available keyboard! Meaning they're not mobile")
script.Parent:Destroy()
else
print("The user's device does not have an available keyboard! Meaning they're mobile")
pg.LevelBoard.PlayNotify:Destroy()
game.ReplicatedStorage.MobileStuff.PlayNotify:Clone().Parent = pg.LevelBoard
for i,v in pairs(plr.Character:GetDescendants()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") then
v.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("VehicleSeat") then
script.Parent.EnterCar.Visible = true
repeat wait() until plr.Character.Humanoid.Sit == true or (hit.Position - plr.Character.Head.Position).Magnitude > 10
if plr.Character.Humanoid.Sit == true then
script.Parent.EnterCar.Text = "Leave Car"
end
if (hit.Position - plr.Character.Head.Position).Magnitude > 10 then
script.Parent.EnterCar.Visible = false
end
end
end)
end
end
end
local Car = nil
script.Parent.Boost.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "ForwardOn")
game.ReplicatedStorage.Thruster:FireServer(true, Car)
end
end)
script.Parent.Boost.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "StopThrottle")
game.ReplicatedStorage.Thruster:FireServer(false, Car)
end
end)
script.Parent.Brakes.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.Brakes:FireServer(true, Car)
end
end)
script.Parent.Brakes.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.Brakes:FireServer(false, Car)
end
end)
script.Parent.Left.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "Left")
end
end)
script.Parent.Left.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "StopSteer")
end
end)
script.Parent.Right.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "Right")
end
end)
script.Parent.Right.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "StopSteer")
end
end)
script.Parent.Drive.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if Car then
print("Alright time to drive")
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "ForwardOn")
end
end)
script.Parent.Drive.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if Car then
print("NO MORE DRIVE")
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "StopThrottle")
end
end)
script.Parent.Reverse.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "BackwardOn")
end
end)
script.Parent.Reverse.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if Car then
game.ReplicatedStorage.ControlCar:FireServer(Car, "StopThrottle")
end
end)
plr.Character.Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("SeatPart"):Connect(function()
local seat = plr.Character.Humanoid.SeatPart
if seat then
if (UserInputService.KeyboardEnabled) then
-- print(" i hate myself ")
else
UserInputService.ModalEnabled = false
for i,v in pairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
pcall(function()
v.Visible = true
end)
end
game:GetService("GuiService").GuiNavigationEnabled = false
pcall(function()
plr.DevTouchMovementMode = Enum.DevTouchMovementMode.Scriptable
end)
Car = seat.Parent
end
else
Car = nil
if (UserInputService.KeyboardEnabled) then
-- print(" i hate myself ")
else
UserInputService.ModalEnabled = true
for i,v in pairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
pcall(function()
v.Visible = false
end)
end
game:GetService("GuiService").GuiNavigationEnabled = true
pcall(function()
plr.DevTouchMovementMode = Enum.DevTouchMovementMode.UserChoice
end)
end
end
end)
It always errors and says something like “lacking security permissions”
This is the last thing and my game will have mobile support.
The workaround I know.
You can disable the thumbstick and buttons from being visible for a brief period via:
local controlFrame = playerGui:WaitForChild("TouchGui").TouchControlFrame
controlFrame.Visible = false
To enable it back again:
local controlFrame = playerGui:WaitForChild("TouchGui").TouchControlFrame
controlFrame.Visible = true
You can be more in-depth and enable/disable certain components by setting their visibility based upon this hiearchy
So if we want to set the visibility of the thumbstickframe and keep buttons, you can do:
local thumbstickFrame = playerGui:WaitForChild("TouchGui").TouchControlFrame:WaitForChild("DynamicThumbstickFrame")
thumbstickFrame .Visible = false
And you can re-enable it with
local thumbstickFrame = playerGui:WaitForChild("TouchGui").TouchControlFrame:WaitForChild("DynamicThumbstickFrame")
thumbstickFrame .Visible = true