I’m making a racing game where the character spawns as a car with the same controls as a jeep from the default racing template. Here’s a list of differences between humanoid controls and vehicle controls in case you haven’t noticed:
- Usually much faster than a humanoid.
- Instead of moving left and right by pressing A and D, you can only turn in those directions by doing that, so you gotta accelerate at the same time to change direction. I’m focusing on this one the most and the other two are kinda obvious.
- The speedometer, but I don’t really want that, and I know how to disable it
I’ve created my own custom vehicle already that’s gonna be my new StarterCharacter. This isn’t it; it’s just another design that’s more basic so my actual design wouldn’t get stolen:
Of course, if the custom character isn’t a humanoid, so it needs custom controls. I’m having trouble editing a script to make it do the things in the list above.
First, I tried making a custom character out of a humanoid and a vehicle with a vehicleseat, thinking the humanoid would sit in it when I pressed play. That didn’t work, so I ditched the humanoid and resorted to scripting. I found a couple scripts in StarterPlayerScripts after you click play that I thought might work after editing it. I tried editing both of them and nothing worked. Here they are:
BaseCharacterController:
--!strict
--[[
BaseCharacterController - Abstract base class for character controllers, not intended to be
directly instantiated.
2018 PlayerScripts Update - AllYourBlox
--]]
local ZERO_VECTOR3: Vector3 = Vector3.new(0,0,0)
--[[ The Module ]]--
local BaseCharacterController = {}
BaseCharacterController.__index = BaseCharacterController
function BaseCharacterController.new()
local self = setmetatable({}, BaseCharacterController)
self.enabled = false
self.moveVector = ZERO_VECTOR3
self.moveVectorIsCameraRelative = true
self.isJumping = false
return self
end
function BaseCharacterController:OnRenderStepped(dt: number)
-- By default, nothing to do
end
function BaseCharacterController:GetMoveVector(): Vector3
return self.moveVector
end
function BaseCharacterController:IsMoveVectorCameraRelative(): boolean
return self.moveVectorIsCameraRelative
end
function BaseCharacterController:GetIsJumping(): boolean
return self.isJumping
end
-- Override in derived classes to set self.enabled and return boolean indicating
-- whether Enable/Disable was successful. Return true if controller is already in the requested state.
function BaseCharacterController:Enable(enable: boolean): boolean
error("BaseCharacterController:Enable must be overridden in derived classes and should not be called.")
return false
end
return BaseCharacterController
VehicleController:
--[[
// FileName: VehicleControl
// Version 1.0
// Written by: jmargh
// Description: Implements in-game vehicle controls for all input devices
// NOTE: This works for basic vehicles (single vehicle seat). If you use custom VehicleSeat code,
// multiple VehicleSeats or your own implementation of a VehicleSeat this will not work.
--]]
local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")
--[[ Constants ]]--
-- Set this to true if you want to instead use the triggers for the throttle
local useTriggersForThrottle = true
-- Also set this to true if you want the thumbstick to not affect throttle, only triggers when a gamepad is conected
local onlyTriggersForThrottle = false
local ZERO_VECTOR3 = Vector3.new(0,0,0)
local AUTO_PILOT_DEFAULT_MAX_STEERING_ANGLE = 35
-- Note that VehicleController does not derive from BaseCharacterController, it is a special case
local VehicleController = {}
VehicleController.__index = VehicleController
function VehicleController.new(CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY)
local self = setmetatable({}, VehicleController)
self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY = CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY
self.enabled = false
self.vehicleSeat = nil
self.throttle = 0
self.steer = 0
self.acceleration = 0
self.decceleration = 0
self.turningRight = 0
self.turningLeft = 0
self.vehicleMoveVector = ZERO_VECTOR3
self.autoPilot = {}
self.autoPilot.MaxSpeed = 0
self.autoPilot.MaxSteeringAngle = 0
return self
end
function VehicleController:BindContextActions()
if useTriggersForThrottle then
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("throttleAccel", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnThrottleAccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.ButtonR2)
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("throttleDeccel", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnThrottleDeccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.ButtonL2)
end
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("arrowSteerRight", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnSteerRight(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.Right)
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("arrowSteerLeft", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnSteerLeft(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.Left)
end
function VehicleController:Enable(enable: boolean, vehicleSeat: VehicleSeat)
if enable == self.enabled and vehicleSeat == self.vehicleSeat then
return
end
self.enabled = enable
self.vehicleMoveVector = ZERO_VECTOR3
if enable then
if vehicleSeat then
self.vehicleSeat = vehicleSeat
self:SetupAutoPilot()
self:BindContextActions()
end
else
if useTriggersForThrottle then
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("throttleAccel")
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("throttleDeccel")
end
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("arrowSteerRight")
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("arrowSteerLeft")
self.vehicleSeat = nil
end
end
function VehicleController:OnThrottleAccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.acceleration = 0
else
self.acceleration = -1
end
self.throttle = self.acceleration + self.decceleration
end
function VehicleController:OnThrottleDeccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.decceleration = 0
else
self.decceleration = 1
end
self.throttle = self.acceleration + self.decceleration
end
function VehicleController:OnSteerRight(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.turningRight = 0
else
self.turningRight = 1
end
self.steer = self.turningRight + self.turningLeft
end
function VehicleController:OnSteerLeft(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.turningLeft = 0
else
self.turningLeft = -1
end
self.steer = self.turningRight + self.turningLeft
end
-- Call this from a function bound to Renderstep with Input Priority
function VehicleController:Update(moveVector: Vector3, cameraRelative: boolean, usingGamepad: boolean)
if self.vehicleSeat then
if cameraRelative then
-- This is the default steering mode
moveVector = moveVector + Vector3.new(self.steer, 0, self.throttle)
if usingGamepad and onlyTriggersForThrottle and useTriggersForThrottle then
self.vehicleSeat.ThrottleFloat = -self.throttle
else
self.vehicleSeat.ThrottleFloat = -moveVector.Z
end
self.vehicleSeat.SteerFloat = moveVector.X
return moveVector, true
else
-- This is the path following mode
local localMoveVector = self.vehicleSeat.Occupant.RootPart.CFrame:VectorToObjectSpace(moveVector)
self.vehicleSeat.ThrottleFloat = self:ComputeThrottle(localMoveVector)
self.vehicleSeat.SteerFloat = self:ComputeSteer(localMoveVector)
return ZERO_VECTOR3, true
end
end
return moveVector, false
end
function VehicleController:ComputeThrottle(localMoveVector)
if localMoveVector ~= ZERO_VECTOR3 then
local throttle = -localMoveVector.Z
return throttle
else
return 0.0
end
end
function VehicleController:ComputeSteer(localMoveVector)
if localMoveVector ~= ZERO_VECTOR3 then
local steerAngle = -math.atan2(-localMoveVector.x, -localMoveVector.z) * (180 / math.pi)
return steerAngle / self.autoPilot.MaxSteeringAngle
else
return 0.0
end
end
function VehicleController:SetupAutoPilot()
-- Setup default
self.autoPilot.MaxSpeed = self.vehicleSeat.MaxSpeed
self.autoPilot.MaxSteeringAngle = AUTO_PILOT_DEFAULT_MAX_STEERING_ANGLE
-- VehicleSeat should have a MaxSteeringAngle as well.
-- Or we could look for a child "AutoPilotConfigModule" to find these values
-- Or allow developer to set them through the API as like the CLickToMove customization API
end
return VehicleController
I’m still pretty sure editing one of these scripts is the way to go, but I could be wrong. There wasn’t very many DevForum posts of the same problem. Also please keep in mind that I’m not a very good scripter by the way.
