How do i detect a player moving left/right/backwards?

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#1

So I’m not quite sure how to detect a player moving left/ right/ and backwards. I know Humanoid.MoveDirection is the answer to it but i cant seem to find a good dev forum post that explains it clearly. Replies are appreciated !

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#2 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
	if math.round(Humanoid.MoveDirection.X) == -1 then
		print("Walking left!")
	elseif math.round(Humanoid.MoveDirection.X) == 1 then
		print("Walking right!")
	elseif math.round(Humanoid.MoveDirection.Z) == -1 then
		print("Walking forward!")
	elseif math.round(Humanoid.MoveDirection.Z) == 1 then
		print("Walking backward!")
	end
end)

Local script inside StarterCharacterScripts.

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#3

Thanks so much. Really appreciate it!

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#4

Just wanted to add that you’ll also want to convert this to object space, or it’ll be relative to the world and not to the player. So you’d do
movedirection = Char.PrimaryPart.CFrame:VectorToObjectSpace(Humanoid.MoveDirection)
Using Forummer’s code, you’d then just replace Humanoid.MoveDirection with movedirection.

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#5

didn’t work for some reason?

i did what you said and it didn’t work…

#6 
local MoveDirection = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame:VectorToObjectSpace(Humanoid.MoveDirection)
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