How do i detect when a player is moving?

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I am currently trying to make the character get 1 “point” every 4 seconds while moving, but i cant really
figure out how. Despite looking at other posts, i still cant get it to work, and movedirection + runservice wont work for me either.

help appreciated :]

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game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
local Hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
Hum:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
if Hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
print("Moving")
end
end)
end)
end)
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doesnt seem to work. i’m putting the script in StarterPlayerScripts, and im pretty sure this doesnt work locally, this may be the reason? i would prefer do do it locally tho.

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why do you prefer to do it locally?

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it doesnt seem to work either…

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well, basically im making a superpower game and im making all the stats improve as you do things, like movement. and ive got it all in one local script, that handles it all and i wanna put it in there

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its a bad practice to handle those type of stuff in localscripts your game could easily get exploited.

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and it doesnt work server for me either

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ok thanks, ill use that advice

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ill try again in serverscriptservice
nope, doesnt work

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this would work.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
local Hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
Hum:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
if Hum.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
print("Moving")
end
end)
end)
end)
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yeah thanks that works perfectly!

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I use this sometimes to detect if something is idle:

local function IsIdle(Part) -- Hacky method to detect if character is idle, adds up their linear velocity (x,y,z) as a positive value and compares to a pre-calculated threshold (.001)
    local v = Part.AssemblyLinearVelocity
    --print(math.abs(v.X)+math.abs(v.Y)+math.abs(v.Z)) -- print velocity
    if math.abs(v.X)+math.abs(v.Y)+math.abs(v.Z) < .001 then
        return true
    end
end

if IsIdle(Character.PrimaryPart) then
    print("Is not moving")
else
    print("Is moving")
end

@ayoub50’s method should work too, but only for Humanoid objects afaik.

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thx, ill be able to use this too :smiley:

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