As you know, the thumbstick controls both throttle and steer on touchscreen devices.
I want to completely stop this behavior once the player sits on the VehicleSeat. How can I stop the thumbstick from affecting the seat’s Steer and Throttle properties?
You may want to either use this StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled() or that StarterGui:SetCore() function
Sorry, fixed the title. What I meant was I want the thumbstick to still appear and change the humanoid MoveDirection while driving(this is the default behavior), but not affect throttle or steer of the seat.
You cant do this, Just dont look throttle or steer properties, just store them independently somewhere else.
There must be a core script that binds humanoid MoveDirection to VehicleSeats, right? If I knew which script it was I could change it
Well, if you see, when you run the game, a module called PlayerModule made by AllYourBlox appear into each player’s PlayerScripts folder, explore that, I have already done it and I am half confused with it. Good luck with that.
Funnily enough I have already started exactly doing that and have found instances of “MoveDirection” and other related things throughout the modules, but I just haven’t been able to implement a solution. I’ll look through the modules some more…
I’m not 100% sure how the gamepad works on vehicles, but you can try sinking the inputs via ContextActionService.
PlayerModule:GetControls():Disable() -- to disable the controls
PlayerModule:GetControls():Enable() -- to renable
it might also disable the pc controls so idk
function ControlModule:Disable()
if self.activeController then
self.activeController:Enable(false)
if self.moveFunction then
self.moveFunction(Players.LocalPlayer, Vector3.new(0,0,0), true)
end
end
end
this is the code in the controlModule it looks like it just disables the current way of moving so maybe just edit it so it only disables the mobile controls or make a new function in the controlModule to only disable mobile controls
I have a question, if you do not want to let internal core scripts change the throttle or steer values of VehicleSeats, just don’t use them in the first place, Why not store those values somewhere else?
Good question! Well, when I started making boat and hovercraft driving functionalities, I was using VehicleSeats because of the cross-platform compatibility built-in. However, over time I got tired of Roblox’s thumbstick system, where both throttle and steer are controlled by one finger, forcing touchscreen device players to keep in mind the X and Y position of their finger and making them significantly worse at driving than they are on other platforms. So today I set out to code a new system for mobile. The reason why I prefer to keep using VehicleSeat steerfloat and throttlefloat, is because it makes Steer and Throttle properties, thus making them slightly easier to access by scripts than attributes(lazy, I know)
Not sure if there was a better way, but I ended up modifying the forked VehicleControllerModule. I changed
if vehicleSeat then
self.vehicleSeat = vehicleSeat
self:SetupAutoPilot()
self:BindContextActions()
end
to
if not vehicleSeat:HasTag("NewSeat") then
self.vehicleSeat = vehicleSeat
self:SetupAutoPilot()
self:BindContextActions()
end
Then I tagged all VehicleSeats in the game using this custom Chassis with “NewSeat”, therefore halting controls across all platforms. I then used the humanoid MoveDirection to recode a new driving system that works on all platforms, and that uses the thumbstick for steering, and a drive and reverse button for throttle. It also updates the VehicleSeats’ properties to reflect throttle and speed.
Since modules change I’ll put the unedited module here for future readers to see how this version of the script operated:
--!nonstrict
--[[
// FileName: VehicleControl
// Version 1.0
// Written by: jmargh
// Description: Implements in-game vehicle controls for all input devices
// NOTE: This works for basic vehicles (single vehicle seat). If you use custom VehicleSeat code,
// multiple VehicleSeats or your own implementation of a VehicleSeat this will not work.
--]]
local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")
--[[ Constants ]]--
-- Set this to true if you want to instead use the triggers for the throttle
local useTriggersForThrottle = true
-- Also set this to true if you want the thumbstick to not affect throttle, only triggers when a gamepad is conected
local onlyTriggersForThrottle = true -- tenny. This should be false
local ZERO_VECTOR3 = Vector3.new(0,0,0)
local AUTO_PILOT_DEFAULT_MAX_STEERING_ANGLE = 35
-- Note that VehicleController does not derive from BaseCharacterController, it is a special case
local VehicleController = {}
VehicleController.__index = VehicleController
function VehicleController.new(CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY)
local self = setmetatable({}, VehicleController)
self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY = CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY
self.enabled = false
self.vehicleSeat = nil
self.throttle = 0
self.steer = 0
self.acceleration = 0
self.decceleration = 0
self.turningRight = 0
self.turningLeft = 0
self.vehicleMoveVector = ZERO_VECTOR3
self.autoPilot = {}
self.autoPilot.MaxSpeed = 0
self.autoPilot.MaxSteeringAngle = 0
return self
end
function VehicleController:BindContextActions()
if useTriggersForThrottle then
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("throttleAccel", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnThrottleAccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.ButtonR2)
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("throttleDeccel", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnThrottleDeccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.ButtonL2)
end
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("arrowSteerRight", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnSteerRight(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.Right)
ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("arrowSteerLeft", (function(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
self:OnSteerLeft(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
return Enum.ContextActionResult.Pass
end), false, self.CONTROL_ACTION_PRIORITY, Enum.KeyCode.Left)
end
function VehicleController:Enable(enable: boolean, vehicleSeat: VehicleSeat)
if enable == self.enabled and vehicleSeat == self.vehicleSeat then
return
end
self.enabled = enable
self.vehicleMoveVector = ZERO_VECTOR3
if enable then
if vehicleSeat then
self.vehicleSeat = vehicleSeat
self:SetupAutoPilot()
self:BindContextActions()
end
else
if useTriggersForThrottle then
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("throttleAccel")
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("throttleDeccel")
end
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("arrowSteerRight")
ContextActionService:UnbindAction("arrowSteerLeft")
self.vehicleSeat = nil
end
end
function VehicleController:OnThrottleAccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.acceleration = 0
else
self.acceleration = -1
end
self.throttle = self.acceleration + self.decceleration
end
function VehicleController:OnThrottleDeccel(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.decceleration = 0
else
self.decceleration = 1
end
self.throttle = self.acceleration + self.decceleration
end
function VehicleController:OnSteerRight(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.turningRight = 0
else
self.turningRight = 1
end
self.steer = self.turningRight + self.turningLeft
end
function VehicleController:OnSteerLeft(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.End or inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Cancel then
self.turningLeft = 0
else
self.turningLeft = -1
end
self.steer = self.turningRight + self.turningLeft
end
-- Call this from a function bound to Renderstep with Input Priority
function VehicleController:Update(moveVector: Vector3, cameraRelative: boolean, usingGamepad: boolean)
if self.vehicleSeat then
if cameraRelative then
-- This is the default steering mode
moveVector = moveVector + Vector3.new(self.steer, 0, self.throttle)
if usingGamepad and onlyTriggersForThrottle and useTriggersForThrottle then
self.vehicleSeat.ThrottleFloat = -self.throttle
else
self.vehicleSeat.ThrottleFloat = -moveVector.Z
end
self.vehicleSeat.SteerFloat = moveVector.X
return moveVector, true
else
-- This is the path following mode
local localMoveVector = self.vehicleSeat.Occupant.RootPart.CFrame:VectorToObjectSpace(moveVector)
self.vehicleSeat.ThrottleFloat = self:ComputeThrottle(localMoveVector)
self.vehicleSeat.SteerFloat = self:ComputeSteer(localMoveVector)
return ZERO_VECTOR3, true
end
end
return moveVector, false
end
function VehicleController:ComputeThrottle(localMoveVector)
if localMoveVector ~= ZERO_VECTOR3 then
local throttle = -localMoveVector.Z
return throttle
else
return 0.0
end
end
function VehicleController:ComputeSteer(localMoveVector)
if localMoveVector ~= ZERO_VECTOR3 then
local steerAngle = -math.atan2(-localMoveVector.x, -localMoveVector.z) * (180 / math.pi)
return steerAngle / self.autoPilot.MaxSteeringAngle
else
return 0.0
end
end
function VehicleController:SetupAutoPilot()
-- Setup default
self.autoPilot.MaxSpeed = self.vehicleSeat.MaxSpeed
self.autoPilot.MaxSteeringAngle = AUTO_PILOT_DEFAULT_MAX_STEERING_ANGLE
-- VehicleSeat should have a MaxSteeringAngle as well.
-- Or we could look for a child "AutoPilotConfigModule" to find these values
-- Or allow developer to set them through the API as like the CLickToMove customization API
end
return VehicleController
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