How can I tell if the mobile joystick is pointed forwards

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to tell if the mobile joystick is facing forwards for a run system
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    No idea how I can do this
  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    No one has ahd the same problem
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Could you try Humanoid.MoveDirection?. This option isn’t only for mobile but it could work.

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How would I utilize this too see if the player moves forwards?

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if Humanoid.MoveDirection == Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector then
--line of code
end
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maybe this will work

charlimits

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This doesn’t work whatsoever, I need something better

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How exactly should I use this?, explain please

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Humanoid.MoveDirection is a Vector3 and detects the direction the player is moving in. If it isn’t moving, it will be set to 0, 0, 0.

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I will try and find how to do this. I’m currently testing this on a roblox game.

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thank you very much for your helpfulness

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No problem!

robloxcharlimits

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What in the world is robloxcharlimits???

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Oh no don’t worry. I used that cuz roblox’s character limits are 30. So my sentence was too short by itself.

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local roundhumanoidmd = Vector3.new(math.round(humanoid.MoveDirection.X), math.round(humanoid.MoveDirection.Y), math.round(humanoid.MoveDirection.Z))
local roundlookvector = Vector3.new(math.round(char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector.X), math.round(char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector.Y), math.round(char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector.Z))
if roundhumanoidmd == roundlookvector then
	--code
end

I rounded both Vector3s and checked if there are equal, meaning that the character is walking forwards.

Remember to define char.

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thank you, it works very well.

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No problem!

robloxcharlimits

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You might want to loop it or do :GetPropertyChangedSignal() to both Humanoid and HumanoidRootPart as the position will keep on changing.

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Like this,

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I just needed to find out wether they were moving forwards once. after that it doesn’t matter. I just check everytime they want to sprint.

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oh ok. Don’t worry about it then.