Detect when a player taps on mobile/touch device?

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#1

I’m currently working on a round based game where player’s golf. Development is coming along very swell, but I noticed an issue while testing on my IPad. I noticed that because I am using UserInputService and Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1, Player’s are unable to control the GolfBall on mobile devices.

I was wondering if there is some sort of alternative that I can use that will allow for me to detect when a player taps on the screen. I am also using Mouse.Hit and I was wondering if that works on mobile devices.

If you know what Enum I can use that’d be wonderful and if you’re interested in checking out the game, you can do so here https://www.roblox.com/games/3691360139/ULTIMATE-GOLF

#2

Does Enum.UserInputType.TouchTap not suffice for your use case?

It does but it’s unrecommended to use it because Mouse.Hit doesn’t update live on mobile devices and mobile devices don’t have a mouse. Consider ViewportPointToRay, which constructs a unit ray based off of a 2D position. Here, you can feed the position of the touch via InputObject.Position.

Mouse.Hit is a simplification of the above anyway, except it also extends the unit ray.

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#3

Thank you for the recomendation about the ViewportPointToRay, I’ll check it out!

Im getting an error that says TouchTap is not a valid EnumItem. Looks like it’s an event. But that does accomplish my goal so thank you :+1:
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/UserInputService/TouchTap

Edit: Epic, I got it working nice and well :smiley:

#4

My bad, it’s not TouchTap, it’s simply Touch.
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/enum/UserInputType

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