How to know when a player tries to move

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#1

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear! - I want my script to realise when my player tries to move

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible! - im relatively new to scripting and i dont know how to achieve this

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub? - i tried looking through all the properties of a humanoid and there arent any properties that show me if the player is trying to move

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Ok so here’s the full issue - im trying to make an animation gui and its working perfectly except for the fact that my player can walk while the animation is running, so i planned on setting the walkspeed to 0 when the animation is running and to set it back to 16 when the player tries to move again, the problem is that i dont know how to detect when the player tries to move his character, im sorry if this is a dumb question im quite new to scripting

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#2

After a quick search i found out that the humanoid of the player has a property called: MoveDirection.
If it’s value is greater than 0 then the player is moving.

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#3

MoveDirection cannot determine when a player has Moved or stopped moving this only calculates the direction in which a players goes in a x and z axis wdym lol

#4

wdym it would work just fine

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#5

Broooo it clearly says in the API that it tells the direction in which a player is going in a x or z axis it cannot tell when a character has stopped moving or not

#6

in the hyperlink i posted there is A literal line that says:

if humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then – Are we walking?

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#7

Anyways @sne_12345678 You can calculate such by checking if the HumandRootPart is at the same position for 5 seconds it fires an event that you want

#8

You do know Magnitude is the distance between stuff right what does it have to do if a Humanoid has stopped moving

#9

Ok so this is a local script that must be in starterCharacterScripts i clearly borrowed from the link

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local playerModel = script.Parent
local humanoid = playerModel:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local function IsWalking()
	wait(0.2)
	if humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then -- Are we walking?
		print("Walking")
	end
end

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(IsWalking)

I tested it and it works

#10

if you want to stop the player from moving while the animation is playing, do this:

animation:Play()
hummanoid.WalkSpeed = 0
animation.Ended:Wait()
humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
#11

if Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then

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#12

but the player might want to walk in the middle of the animation and it should stop whenever he tries to walk

#13

the humanoidrootpart may also move during the animation though

#14

Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude does the job for this, it is equal to 0 when the character isn’t moving.

#15

Thanks so much it worked! heres the script i used:

for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace:GetChildren()) do
	if v:IsA("Model") then
		if v:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
			local humanoid = v.Humanoid
			while true do
				if humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then -- Are we walking?
					print("he moved")
				end
				wait()
			end
		end
	end
end
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