Checking mobile players movement with InputBegan function

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#1

Hi, I have a plane type of thing and am making variables local w,a,s,d true when input is detected. I have done this successfully for normal keys and thought I had done it correctly for mobile users. How can I fix this for mobile users? Thought Enum.KeyCode.Up would check this…

inputS.InputBegan:connect(function(input)
		local code=input.KeyCode
		if code==Enum.KeyCode.W or code==Enum.KeyCode.Up then
			w=true
        end
end)
#2

You can use this to detect when a player taps on the screen

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if (input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Touch) then
		-- The user tapped anywhere on screen
	end
end)
#3

Ah. Nice ty. Do you know how I could check if they are moving their screen joystick forward/left/right though?

#4

I made this mess but it only works with InputChanged:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local threshold = 1.5

UserInputService.InputChanged:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType ~= Enum.UserInputType.Touch then return end 
	
	local idleX = false 
	local idleY = false 
	
	if input.Delta.X > threshold then 
		print("moving right")
	elseif input.Delta.X < -threshold then  
		print("moving left")
	else 
		idleX = true 
	end
	if input.Delta.Y > threshold then 
		print("moving down")
	elseif input.Delta.Y < -threshold then  
		print("moving up")
	else 
		idleY = true 
	end
	
	if idleX and idleY then 
		print("idle")
	end
end)
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#5

Awesome, thank you! One thing if I may ask though, when I move the joystick to the end of the screen and then quickly let go, the part moves fine. However, if I move the joystick to the end of the screen and hold it there, suddenly the part vibrates like crazy while moving. The aim is that everything revers back to false once the joystick is released.
Do you know why this is happening? My first thought was that maybe idle was being switched on and off really quickly, but that can’t be, so now I’m not sure.

#6

Try increasing the threshold value.

#7

I tried messing around with that a bit but then the craft kind of stop starts a lot, quite strange. I’ll upload the current code in case there’s something I missed

local threshold = 3

inputS.InputChanged:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Touch then  

		local idleX = false 
		local idleY = false 

		if input.Delta.X > threshold then 
			print("moving right")
			d = true
		elseif input.Delta.X < -threshold then  
			print("moving left")
			a = true
		else 
			idleX = true 
			d = false
			a = false
		end
		if input.Delta.Y > threshold then 
			print("moving down")
			s = true
		elseif input.Delta.Y < -threshold then  
			w = true
			print("moving up")
		else 
			idleY = true 
			w = false
			s = false
		end
	end
end)
#8

Do you think it would be better to use a vehicle seat instead of a normal seat to receive user input?