More Mouse Buttons

[acreol]

As a Roblox developer it is impossible(???) to get mouse input from the cool buttons (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68)

So that means if your players who play pro games (like Fortnite) come to play Roblox (which they should!!), they will be sad that they can’t bind pyramid and trap to the mouse buttons

Ideally UserInputService should fire InputBegan and InputEnded with an inputobject with the mouse buttons’ keycodes but I am not a Roblox engineer so YOU chooose!

[EmeraldSlash (Rio)]

It’d be fine as a nifty feature, but AFAIK most developers don’t even implement custom hotkey settings, professional Fortnite players don’t play Roblox, and most Roblox players don’t have a fancy mouse. For those reasons there seems to be no overall benefit to this feature – the engineers have more important stuff to work on.

[EchoReaper]

@EmeraldSlash

the engineers have more important stuff to work on.

That’s for the engineers to decide. We don’t always have enough knowledge about what they’re working on internally to tell for certain whether something is important / convenient to implement or not.

This feature request seems fine to me.

[bigcrazycarboy]

support

[Tiffblocks]

We want to eventually add a built in mechanism that lets players rebind ContextActionService bindings. I think after we ship that, it makes sense to support those extra buttons.

Right now, the majority of players don’t have those extra buttons, and most games don’t support rebinding inputs, so they’ll for the most part either not be used, be used redundantly, or provide a worse experience to players who don’t have them.

[bigcrazycarboy]

If players have the option to rebind ContextActionService, will there be an option to lock a keybind so someone can’t change it? This might be useful for bindings that change dynamically.

[DrKittyWaffles (x64dbg)]

Please don’t crucify me for bumping. I just want this to get noticed!

I would love to see this feature implemented.

As a player I like to play competitive games and I usually just use an AHK script / some software that can rebind the side keys of my mouse to another keypress / keystroke sequence on my keyboard. It is always more convenient to press a button on the side of my mouse in a tight situation than press a key on my keyboard.

And as a developer it is nice to give users more ways to play.

[x_o]

please let us use more mouse buttons!! thanks!!

Add additional mouse button UserInputType enums

Most modern games allow you to bind actions to additional side mouse buttons. This would also be useful in Roblox; for example, my game consists of 2 primary actions bound to Q and E which I could also bind to extra mouse buttons for a better experience. In general, it would make common actions quicker if the player has such a mouse (e.g chat, menu, reload). I believe something along the lines of MouseButton4 and MouseButton5 would be useful additions to the UserInputType enum.

very annoying that I have to explain to our community that roblox just doesn’t support more mouse buttons

[gizzygazzy360 (Smile4)]

Hey Roblox, more games have key binds now, and its been 5 years and you still haven’t added CAS binds. What’s up?

[SIayec (Daniel)]

late to support but I support!

[SkyleTheFrench]

But it’s still useful for both devs and players, also

@Tiffblocks

provide a worse experience to players who don’t have them

for this, it’s not as bad as games that aren’t compatible on multiple devices, and the dev can make a bind option

(oh wait I didn’t saw the date of the forum, my bad)

[Ax1sAng1e (Pastor James)]

Voicechat has (or will have) push to talk, and a lot of people use side buttons for these. Please consider.

[bluebxrrybot (blueberry)]

In the mean time, players can use a macro to rebind their extra mouse buttons to a Numpad key. All games can detect those!

[TimeFrenzied (of Xyaery)]

Yeah, I can change the buttons and keys on my mouse and keyboard, but I use other buttons for other stuff, and its annoying having to change them back into side buttons each time.

[TimeFrenzied (of Xyaery)]

This at least needs to be implemented for the common mouse buttons such as MB4 and MB5. In games that use almost every single key on your keyboard except for maybe TAB and CAPS-LOCK such as TYPE://SOUL, you have to either use a macro/rebind or reach across your entire keyboard.

The problem with using a macro or rebinding keys gets to when you play other games often, such as VALORANT, Fortnite, Minecraft, or any other modern game. Sometimes I get bored of Roblox and immediately switch over to another game, where I try to use my side buttons for voice chat or an action, and end up forgetting I bound them in my mouse settings. This results in me having to open Google, open my mouse software’s website, and rebind them in the middle of a match (don’t reply to me asking how I could forget I changed it )