how to detect if player is moving on client mod?

[Helwdrokin]

i tried to search in the forums to see if someone didn't asked this before, maybe i didn't used the right key words, so sorry if this question have been asked before

i tried to use a function to get the player position in a frame, and compare with the last frame position to check for movements. It worked great until i joined multiplayer server. so now i'm asking, is there any function on the game that's just check if the player is moving/standing?

[oregu]

serverside (just putting this here for future reference):

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--if inst:GetBufferedAction().action.id == "WALKTO" then -- is trying to walk somewhere in the world (not as good as i thought)
	--
--end
if inst.components.locomotor.isrunning then -- is moving using locomotor

end

 

isrunning is most accurate

clientside:

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local recordedpoint
local dt = 0 -- maybe try GLOBAL.FRAMES if what ur doing is animation based?
inst.movingtask = inst:DoPeriodicTask(dt, function() -- note: only works for players
  local currentpoint = inst.components.areaaware.lastpt
  if recordedpoint and currentpoint ~= recordedpoint then -- checks if last point is the same (you have to periodically check with this)
    -- do smth
  end
  recordedpoint = currentpoint
end

if inst.HasTag"moving" then -- in a running animation (likely less resource intensive but player could be running into a wall)
  -- do smth
end

 

The first method only tracks position, so a player will be counted as moving even if theyre being pushed.

There's also checking with running animstates but there's so many running animstates that I'm not sure. i think moving tag covers most of them though.

Edited March 10, 2025 by oregu

[Helwdrokin]

thanks @oregu, the inst:HasTag("moving") worked
i tried to check player position similar to your second example, then i realized that using addPlayerPostInit() messed up the function, each player on the screen was doing the position check and then messing up the function

[oregu]

I'd recommend making a component for this if this servers a higher purpose, but this is OK for something small.

I think I recorded the position wrong. So I redid the fn.

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AddPlayerPostInit(function(inst)
	local dt = GLOBAL.FRAMES * 3 -- not sure why 3 frames is the correct buffer for this, increase if u have issues
	inst.movingtask = inst:DoPeriodicTask(dt, function() -- note: only works for players, and wont work if player is unloaded
		local currentpoint = inst.components.areaaware.lastpt
		if inst.recordedpoint and currentpoint ~= inst.recordedpoint then 
			inst:AddTag"moving2" --print(inst, "moving")
		else
			inst:RemoveTag"moving2" --print(inst, "not moving")
		end
		inst.recordedpoint = GLOBAL.Vector3(GLOBAL.unpack{currentpoint:Get()})
	end)
end)

Edited March 11, 2025 by oregu