How would I go about creating a Complex-Keybind system

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  1. What do you want to achieve?

As said in the title; I wanna create a Animation-Keybind system.

  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

I have seen it done before, and I know there’s a bunch of way to do it, I would just like to know the most efficent way of completing the system.

  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

I have had some work with keybind’s in the past, but I’m not sure if it would be the most efficent.

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I’m not asking for code, but rather support on How I should Achieve my goal.

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Could you give a more specific description?

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Right so;

I’m making a game, Where if you press a Button on your keyboard, it’ll do A function.

I wan’t to know, what the best way to go about doing this would be.

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Answer

The best system, while simplistic: It should also be user friendly; the best way to achieve this is to have a folder in Server Storage, put animations in said folder (This could be swapped out for another String Value to put the ID of the animation), then have a String Value named Keybind in each animation.
Here’s an example of both ways: image

Scripting Wise

The way I explained above makes it quite easy to script, you could use a remote event to fire when a button is pressed and if it finds that there’s an animation with that keybind, it’ll play that. You do this by using a for I,V in pairs, you then check each Keybind Value to see if they match and if they do; you play the said animation.

Note

If you use the UserInputService feature GetFocusedTextBox(), you can make it so it doesn’t allow itself to trigger while typing a message in the chatbox. i.e;

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
if UIS:GetFocusedTextBox() == nil then
	TweenTabControl()
end

Script

Here’s a little bit of scripting done for ya; you can use this as a reference for your system.

--//Made By MillerrIAm\\--
--/Variables\--
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
--/Main Script\--
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(KeyPressed)
	local Key = Enum.KeyCode
	local KeybindValue = "Where the keybind is located."
	if KeyPressed.KeyCode == Key[KeybindValue] then
		if UIS:GetFocusedTextBox() == nil then
			TweenTabControl()
		end		
	end
end)

I hope this helps you out, if it solves your issue; make sure you mark it as the solution.

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