Shift lock for mobile players

[Zexson560 (LawlessLifeInHell)]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to make a script that will allow mobile players to get the ability of using shift lock.

If this issue is addressed, it would improve my development experience because, instead of just letting PC Players to move their camera fast and easliy, mobile players will have to play in a kind of a hard way, only if it wasn’t added. This would also help me because, I can just easliy go to my game settings and allow mobile players to have shift lock in my game.

In general, let’s say mostly every game in Roblox has shift lock for PC players. We already know that it’s not really recommended for mobile players, but I’d like to see it added.

The reason why I want it to be added, because shift lock is useful and it’s easier to play if it was added on mobile too. Also, the main reason why I want, it’s because I want my mobile players to have the ability to use shift lock on mobile devices.

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How I would prefer it to be implemented:

First of all, Roblox should turn off shift lock for every mobile player. The game creator should go to his game settings and select permissions, then turn their shift lock option on for mobile players. (A toggle button).

Second thing, if the creator of the game already has a script to turn on shift lock for mobile players, then he doesn’t need to mind about it. (Still recommended to go to their game settings and turn it on, due to some scripts may be broke after some updates).

QUICK NOTE: I don’t want this thing to be released immediatly, since we have our Beta Testers who are a part of our Beta Tester Program, we can just add this feature to Beta Testers and wait until we resolve every bug from it. After a while after it got tested, it should be released to public.

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[Aiomab (Aioman)]

Shiftlock, incase you weren’t aware, is a movement method that emulates first person mode in a more comfortable third person camera view. It is essential to some games, such as very hard obbies.

Currently, on mobile devices such as Android or iOS, there is no option to have shiftlock enabled. The only alternative is first person mode, as of now.

As a Roblox mobile player, it is too hard to have to use first person as an alternative. Walking without first person/shiftlock is very uncomfortable, and shiftlock is much easier as a movement method.

If this issue is adressed, it would improve my playing experience because shiftlock is a much more comfortable movement method, and it would enable mobile players to play more freely and have access to more options for cameras. Some very hard obbies have jumps that require shiftlock, and some games have resorted to using their own scripted shiftlock button UI or a free model. This would also save developers time by not feeling pushed to add a shiftlock button, and that extra bit of lag. It may even make it easier for some scripters to do CFrame as they have camera angles set in shiftlock, such as the one in Astral Hearts.

I’d recommend maybe add this in the settings as a camera view, like classic and follow, although a button such as the jump button would be preferred.

This was a topic that I made but redirected here.

[radiogamer]

I’m currently stumbling against this problem as well. On PC, the mouselock feature is a neat and quick way to add a third-person camera control for players, which is very useful for obstacle courses and combat.

However, this option is only available for PC. Mobile and controller (console) can’t utilize this feature and have to rely on developers either making custom camera scripts or even adjust / fork the camera module script.

An option for developers to toggle the mouselock easily for mobile and controller in their experiences would be very helpful.

I’m more curious why mobile and controller are not allowed to use the mouselock feature.

[lolhi0404]

I know i’m a tad bit late, but I did make an article on this saying it is possible to do this using these following methods

How To Make Touch Screen/Mobile Device Screen Shift Lock Button/How to Enable Shift lock while Clicking With Different Buttons

Mobile/touch Screen Version: How to Make Touch Screen/Mobile Device Screen Shift Lock Button. First, Go into game in-studio go into your player then go into Player Scripts You will find Player Module You will need to Copy That. End that test session and paste it into this directory game.StarterPlayer.StarterPlayerScripts you can also follow the process of the Other Tutorial (At The Bottom of this tutorial) Next, we want to make a sort of leaderboard type of script which that will check if t…

[Creator_Rat (rat)]

I would like to bump this up, since this is in my opinion this is important to make it easier for developers to introduce cross platform controls to games. I don’t understand why this is not a feature already.

It also its unnecessarily hard to implement since the DynamicThumbstickFrame (the mobile movement joystick) affects the mouse position (UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()), it would be nice if at least a feature where the DynamicThumbstickFrame does not affect the mouse position was introduced making it a little bit easier to implement.

[walywhale (ExpiWentOutForMilk)]

Sorry for bumping this but we need this. Look at this insane part that I risked my life for in the Roblox Innovation Awards 2023 voting hub obby (luckily I got through it and got the shoes!)

(Screenshot will be put here soon because it’s not saved to my device because it’s a capture)

[aaron_mccoy (PleaseDontBanAaron)]

Just want to quickly bump this thread. I’m really shocked there is no dedicated way to enable shift lock for mobile players natively in roblox. It’s such a nice accessibility feature and requires a very specific fork in the camera module to enable this feature.

I’m unsure why mobile players don’t natively get this accessibility feature but other platforms do, seems like a no brainer.