How can I lock the mouse

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#1

So I was wondering how I can lock the mouse in the center of the screen, even if the user isnt in first person. How can I do this?

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#2

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#3

Sorry I forgot about that, Ill remove this topic

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#4

You’ll have to get a mod to do that at this point so you kinda have no choice but to mark their post as the solution

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#5

Im well aware, I can just do what I always do, flag the post and ask for them to remove it so its fine

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#6

Wait once the mouse is locked to the center, how can I tell when they move it? I mean using mouse.Move works but after that how can I tell which direction they are moving it in? Like up,Left,Down,etc?

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#7

The Mouse.Move event doesn’t return the mouse’s X and Y positions and so you’ll have to manually check.

Like you can have two variables like so:

local previousX, previousY = Mouse.X, Mouse.Y

These will hold the previous mouse positions.

Now when the mouse moves, we’re just gonna subtract the current position of the mouse by the one we saved

Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
-- we’re utilizing math.abs because we don’t want negative numbers
--[[ if the absolute value of the mouse’s 
current X position subtracted 
by the mouse’s previous X 
position is less than the 
absolute value of the mouse’s 
current Y position subtracted 
by the mouse’s previous Y 
position then it’s non-eligible
      ]]
   if math.abs(Mouse.X - previousX) < math.abs(Mouse.Y - previousY) then return end
   local Direction = Vector2.new(Mouse.X, Mouse.Y) - Vector2.new(previousX, previousY)
-- now it’s time to check the direction
  if Mouse.X - previousX > 0 then
     print("Right")
   else
     print("Left")
end
   if Mouse.Y - previousY > 0 then
     print("Down")
   else
     print("Up")
end
     previousX, previousY = Mouse.X, Mouse.Y
end)

Cited the math stuff (x - y > 0) from this post (Forummer is pretty cool):

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#8

All that this prints is up and left, it is a good step in the right direction

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#9

… guess not … still looking at it

#10

Use UserInputService:GetMouseDelta(), which returns the distance the mouse traveled since the last frame.

-- NOTE: I might have these the wrong way around, not sure off the top of my head; might be < 0 = left and > 0 = right, though you'll just have to test it to verify.

local mouseDelta = UserInputService:GetMouseDelta()

if mouseDelta.X > 0 then
    print("Right")
else
    print("Left")
end

if mouseDelta.Y > 0 then
    print("Up")
else
    print("Down")
end

To force the mouse to stay locked in the center of the screen, you have to set UserInputService.MouseBehavior to Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
UserInputService.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter

You can find more information on these methods and properties in UserInputService’s documentation:

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#11

Broke it up into two working scripts
Problem is they don’t work together …

LockView 
wait()
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
UserInputService.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter
UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = false
Movement 
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local lastMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()

local function mousemove(delta)
	local direction
	if math.abs(delta.x) > math.abs(delta.y) then
		direction = (delta.x > 0) and "Right" or "Left"
	else
		direction = (delta.y > 0) and "Up" or "Down"
	end
	print("Mouse moved:", direction)
end

UserInputService.InputChanged:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseMovement then
		local currentMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
		local delta = Vector2.new(currentMousePosition.x - lastMousePosition.x, currentMousePosition.y - lastMousePosition.y)
		if delta.magnitude > 0 then
			mousemove(delta)
			lastMousePosition = currentMousePosition
		end
	end
end)

may have to figure actual camera movement … angle vs centered for direction

#12

This works! Except the Up and down and swapped so uh to fix it

replace that with

if mouseDelta.Y < 0 then

Anyhow thanks!

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