How can I detect if the player is dragging the mouse of a certain axis in first person?

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#1

Hello, I have been working on an FPS game and I want to give it a nice animation when the player drags his mouse on the x axis. But I don’t know how to detect if the player is dragging his mouse on a certain axis, How do I do that?
Thank you!

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Dragged Mouse Path Detection?
#2

Here’s a script I made to check for X axis mouse movement. Remember that this must be in a local script to be able to get mouse movement.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local mouse = Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local lastX = 0

mouse.Move:connect(function()
	local MouseX = mouse.X - lastX
	if MouseX > 0 then
		print("Mouse moving on X axis")
	end
	
	lastX = mouse.X;
end)
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#3

Thank you, it works but not in first person. (I added it to the title of the post)

#4

My bad, didn’t realize that. In first person camera movement is manipulated by any raw mouse movement. I’ll try to get back to you with a script on how to accomplish this.

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#5

Alright, here’s what I came up with. I’m in class at the moment so sorry about my response time. I read up on ContextActionService and I was able to make it work with first person X axis movement checks. Let me know how I can improve the script or if it’s what you need. :slight_smile:

local contextService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

local function IsMovingCam(input)
	if math.abs(input.Delta.X) > 0 then 
			return ("Moving X Axis")
	end
end

contextService:BindAction("CameraMovement", function(a,b,input) 
	print(IsMovingCam(input)) end, false, Enum.UserInputType.MouseMovement)
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#6

Thank you it works like a charm! But I have a question, is there a way to check if the mouse is being dragged left or right?

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