Controlling Pause UI with Gamepad

[sharp elm]

Hey, I'm trying to get my game to recognize input from the gamepad so I can choose options and press buttons in a pause menu.
The setup is relatively simple. The UI consists of a resume and quit button. See the attached screenshots.
The player script calls the pause function of the pause UI script using unhandled input. I have tried a few things, but I have no idea how to get the menu to recognize gamepad inputs other than moving up and down with the D-Pad.

SOLUTION: #1096307775543463947 message

I have a shortcut setup on the resume button to listen for the pause input event which I have mapped to esc on keyboard and pause on the gamepad. I thought about making a shortcut for the quit button, but that wouldn't work as desired as each time I press the button it would quit the game instead of pressing whichever button has focus.

[icy lagoon]

change the input maps ui-left, ui-up and other functions

and you want to use a input map action

use a process function, and do is Input.is_action_just_pressed("pause")

[sharp elm]

I have have all the required inputs mapped for the gamepad and the dpad does work for changing focus on the pause menu buttons, but how do I get the A - facebutton in the gamepad to register as a click for the focused UI button?

And I already have a working function that listens for the pause:

[icy lagoon]

you want the resume button to trigger the unpause event?

you can use Input.parse_input_event

however, why dont you just connect the pressed signal to unpause?

[sharp elm]

No, the pause button is already set up and working. I want to pause menu to accept an input from the gamepad to press whatever button has focus.

[icy lagoon]

what is ui_accept?

[sharp elm]

By default it is spacebar and in addition I mapped the A button on the gamepad

The pause menu accepts the space button when on the menu, along with the enter key, but it doesn’t accept the A button on the gamepad. But I can use the gamepad dpad buttons to change the focused button, which is what I want. I just can’t use the gamepad to press the focused button.

I can maybe make a video if it’s easier to understand

[icy lagoon]

that doesnt make sense

if you press enter on the keyboard does it work?

[sharp elm]

Yeah, it's just the gamepad that's the issue

[sharp elm]

I wonder if it’s an issue where gamepad is being ignored because the tree is paused.

Idk

[icy lagoon]

do the _input functions register the gamepad?

[sharp elm]

I believe they do when the tree is not paused but I’ll have to double check to see if they do when the tree is paused

[sharp elm]

So, I checked, the jump button doesn't register when the tree is paused.

How can I fix this?

So, from this https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/pausing_games.html I can see that when the tree is paused inputs functions aren't called.

It seems that setting the players process mode to always allows for calling input functions, now to hook it up to the UI, hope this works.

[sharp elm]

Okay, so I've run into a couple of problems here:
First: I don't know how to get the ui to press the focused button when I hit the jump/ui_accept input
Second: Now that I have set the player process mode to always, even though everything else is paused the player can still look around, I don't want this.

[icy lagoon]

interesting, so because _input doesnt work in paused games, the buttons dont work with gamepad input?

that sounds like a bug, as keyboard input does work

you should make a bug report (https://github.com/godot/godot-engine/issues/new)

[sharp elm]

I think that the reason that space on the keyboard works is because that’s what ui_accept is mapped to by default. I don’t think it’s a bug.

I just have to figure out how to get Godot to also recognize the gamepad input as ui_accept

[icy lagoon]

nope thats definetly a bug

if your not going to report it, ill see if i can repro myself

[sharp elm]

That's all well and good if you want to do that, but this is getting off-topic for the thread. I'm trying to get Godot to recognize a gamepad button press as ui_accept, since ui inputs are recognized when the Scene Tree is paused (since my pause menu has process mode set to always).

[desert sky]

Go to the input map, enable Show Built-in Actions, then add the gamepad button you want to the ui_accept action

[sharp elm]

I'm trying this now. I didn't see that the built-in events were hidden by default. Was wondering where they went.

Sweet, menu is working with gamepad

and keyboard

Solution:

Make sure the Input Map is set properly to the keys you expect to press. Built in actions (ui_ actions) are hidden by default. Make sure to toggle "Show Built-in Actions" See screenshot. (Bottom of post)

• On Player Script:

    if event.is_action_pressed("pause"):
        $PauseMenu.pause()```

- On Pause Menu Script (**Pause Menu process mode must be set to "Always" in the inspector**):
```extends ColorRect

@onready var animator: AnimationPlayer = $AnimationPlayer
@onready var Resume: Button = find_child("BTN_Resume")
@onready var Quit: Button = find_child("BTN_Quit")


func unpause():
    animator.play("Unpause")
    get_tree().paused = false
    Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED)


func pause():
    animator.play("Pause")
    get_tree().paused = true
    Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_VISIBLE)
    Resume.grab_focus()


func quit():
    get_tree().quit()


func _ready() -> void:
    Resume.pressed.connect(unpause)
    Quit.pressed.connect(quit)```

Seems Resume.grab_focus() is important because if I comment that out, nothing has focus by default and I can't change the focus.

[icy lagoon]

... wait a second, i thought you had done this already

[icy lagoon]

you said so here

[sharp elm]

I was mistaken. What I did was create a mapping for "jump" set to space and the A button on the gamepad, then mapped it in code, because I didn't see that the built-in actions were hidden by default.

[icy lagoon]

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