Help with equipping moves

[sovel1453 (Guest)]

hello everyone! So I want to make a game where you can have moves (special abilities) that you can equip and assign it to a key, but I’m kinda lost, I have no idea on how to make it so when you equip a move you can choose the keybind and whenever you press it, it fires the move, I js need an idea on how to make this system. Thanks

[SourLemon100000 (SourLemon)]

For rebinding keys, take a look at the context action service class. To keep things sorted, I’d use object oriented programming to keep things organized and open up avenues to reuse code.

[Downrest (Down)]

Let’s say you have a settings GUI, and the player sets a keybind. Like what @SourLemon100000 said, you can add a module script (you can put it in StarterPlayer > StarterCharacterScripts or wherever is most accessible) that just has keybind variables that scripts can use.

For example (the scripts I use were all placed under StarterCharacterScripts):

-- MODULE
local module = {}
module.KeyBindA = Enum.KeyCode.X

return module

-- SCRIPT A
local module = require(script.Parent.ModuleScript)

warn(module.KeyBindA) -- Enum.KeyCode.X
module.KeyBindA = Enum.KeyCode.Y

-- SCRIPT B (ASSUMING THIS RUNS AFTER SCRIPT A)
local module = require(script.Parent.ModuleScript)

warn(module.KeyBindA) -- Enum.KeyCode.Y

As for registering inputs, I suggest using either ContextActionService (like @SourLemon100000) or UserInputService

Example of using UserInputService alongside the module:

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local module = require(script.Parent.ModuleScript)

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, isTyping)
	if isTyping then
		return -- dont run code if chat is open / player is chatting
	end
	
	if input.KeyCode == module.KeyBindA then
		warn("DO SOMETHING!!!")
	end
end)