Hi,
So I’ve run into an issue where the humanoid’s MoveDirection stays at 0,0,0 despite calling MoveTo on it and the character itself is moving.
while true do
print(humanoid.MoveDirection)
task.wait()
end
I’m calling :MoveTo on the humanoid on the server but even though it’s moving, the MoveDirection still remains at 0,0,0 so I can’t use this to determine when the humanoid is idle. Is this intended behaviour or am I doing something wrong?
It’s also a custom rig.
I know it’s a stupid question, but just for the sake of trouble shooting; is the character moving in multiple directions? MoveDirection describes the unit vector direction in which the character is moving, so if you were to travel in a straight line, MoveDirection would remain unchanged. Otherwise, could you try printing the CFrame of the humanoid itself?
If it was moving it in a straight line on the Z axis in a positive direction, wouldn’t the MoveDirection be 0,0,1 because that would be the direction the character is moving?
I printed the CFrame after running the command, you can see it’s changing but the MoveDirection stays at 0,0,0:
try
print(humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude)Doing that still outputs 0 unfortunately.
Yes, I’m just trying to rationalise. What happens if you travel in the X direction instead? Could you print the lookvector of the humanoid?
I think you meant the HumanoidRootPart (if it’s something else let me know), here’s me moving it in the negative X direction (it didn’t rotate much which is why the LookVector hardly changed)
I moved it in the opposite direction as well, you can see the humanoid root part’s LookVector is changing:
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Humanoid/MoveDirection
Judging from the NotReplicated and the code example being a local script, my best guess is that you simply cannot use this property, not even for server-owned walking figures.
To get the movement direction, you should do (position_you_called_MoveTo_on - current_position).Unit or try something else than MoveDirection.
edit: use something more appropriate for determining if the rig is idle, rather.
Such as it no longer being in the walking state, or its horizontal velocity being small.
Yeah I guess you’re right. I tried doing :MoveTo on my character from the server only to have it not change. Sucks.
Interesting. I guess you could just use the LookVector of the HumanoidRootPart anyway.
