How to detect player movement for different devices

[MineMasterTop1gg (pie)]

My goal is to make function that detects in what direction player wants to move without magnitude and other things bc sometimes character move in one direction but he wants in opposite.

I tried ContextActionService but its not work for mobile somewhy.

local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")
local ActionName = "WalkingForward"

local function HandleAction(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
	if actionName == ActionName and inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then
		print("WALKINGFORWARD")
	end
end
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority(ActionName,HandleAction,false,200,Enum.PlayerActions.CharacterBackward)

The function i need to need to detect where he wants to move, not depend on character physics and for any device.

[JAcoboiskaka1121 (Skellyton)]

Try looking into MoveDirection

[MineMasterTop1gg (pie)]

is there any way to make it relative to character, not world, like 4 directions forward backward left and right?

[JAcoboiskaka1121 (Skellyton)]

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

function GetPlayerLocalDirection()
	if Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") then
		local MoveDirection = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid").MoveDirection

		local cameraLook = Camera.CFrame.LookVector
		local cameraLookXZ = Vector3.new(cameraLook.X, 0, cameraLook.Z).Unit

		local cameraRight = cameraLookXZ:Cross(Vector3.new(0, 1, 0))

		
		local localX = MoveDirection:Dot(cameraRight)
		local localZ = MoveDirection:Dot(cameraLookXZ)

		local roundedX = math.floor(localX + 0.5)
		local roundedZ = math.floor(localZ + 0.5)

		return roundedX, roundedZ
	end
	return 0, 0
end

function PrintDirection()
	local X, Z = GetPlayerLocalDirection()

	if X > 0 then
		print("Moved Right")
	elseif X < 0 then
		print("Moved Left")
	end

	if Z > 0 then
		print("Moved Forward")
	elseif Z < 0 then
		print("Moved Backward")
	end
end

runService.RenderStepped:Connect(PrintDirection)

[MineMasterTop1gg (pie)]

Thanks! Thats saved much time for me!

[VegetationBush (FartedWayTooHard)]

There’s a much, much simpler method and that’s using the built-in methods provided by PlayerScripts:

-->> in a local script

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local PlayerModule = require(Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerScripts"):WaitForChild("PlayerModule"))
local Controls = PlayerModule:GetControls()

game["Run Service"].Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	local moveDirection = Controls:GetMoveVector()
	print(moveDirection) --> prints the direction the player is moving

	if moveDirection == Vector3.new(0, 0, -1) then
		print("Forward")
	end
end)

[MineMasterTop1gg (pie)]

Sadly its not works for mobile devices.

[VegetationBush (FartedWayTooHard)]

I’m assuming you want to find out if the player is moving generally forward. If the player moves forward slightly to the right, it would still count as forward.

This can be easily implemented using the :Dot() operator.

local moveDirection = Controls:GetMoveVector()

if moveDirection:Dot(Vector3.new(0, 0, -1)) >= 0.5 then --> if the player is moving 45 degrees within the forward direction this will pass
	print("Forward")
end

So you can check if the player is moving forward with this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local PlayerModule = require(Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerScripts"):WaitForChild("PlayerModule"))
local Controls = PlayerModule:GetControls()

local function isMovingForward()
	local moveDirection = Controls:GetMoveVector()
	return moveDirection:Dot(Vector3.new(0, 0, -1)) >= 0.5
end