Detect how fast a player is moving with the dynamic d-pad

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I am trying to develop a system where if the player drags the dpad out a little bit they walk, and if they drag the dpad out far, they sprint. I want to apply a series of changes to the player when they start sprinting, so just giving them a higher walkspeed by default isn’t enough, I must be able to monitor changes to the dpad.

Is there a built in way to do it? Ideally I’d like the magnitude between the start of the press, and where the touch currently is.

Thanks!

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you can get the players MoveVector which returns a Vector3 where the X and Z values will change based on the direction the player is moving in and the Y value will always be 0. On a computer, the X and Z values are set to 0 if the player is not moving in that direction, 1 if the player is moving backwards or left, and -1 if the player is moving right or forwards. But on mobile, the value will change based on the position of the Thumbstick/Thumbpad.

Here is how to get the MoveVector:

Check for these scripts in StarterPlayerScripts

  1. A ModuleScript named “PlayerModule”
  2. a LocalScript named “ControlScript” with a ModuleScript named “MasterControl” inside of it

You can do the movement adjustments by making a new LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts

If you have the PlayerModule in StarterPlayerScripts or you don’t have any of the scripts listed above, you would put

local Control = require(LocalPlayer.PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("PlayerModule"):WaitForChild("ControlModule"))

if you have the LocalScript named “ControlScript” with the “MasterControl” ModuleScript inside of it then you want to do this:

local Control = require(LocalPlayer.PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("ControlScript"):WaitForChild("MasterControl"))

now you can get the MoveVector:

local MoveVector = Control:GetMoveVector()

then you can get the Vector3 value and return it or do whatever you need to do with it or you can get the X,Y and Z values individually with MoveVector.X, MoveVector.Y or MoveVector.Z