🖱️┃input-system

[woeful hamlet]

ty AurimasK

[sudden lagoon]

👍

[woeful hamlet]

Oh and one last question @sudden lagoon how can I detect if key is selected

[sudden lagoon]

something like this maybe? GameObject selected = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject;

you might want to check ISelectHandler and use something like

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler

 {
 public void OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData)
     {}
}

[woeful hamlet]

thanks, if not ill ask the always wrong chat gbt ai

[sudden lagoon]

chatgbt will know, it is amaizing for these kind of things, I use it constatly also 😄

I think he will give even better example than I can :"D like 100% sure of it 😄

[woeful hamlet]

honesty its so helpful for learning

and if its wrong

then we have this awesome community

chat gbt likes to use OnPointerDown

[sudden lagoon]

On pointer down is quite nice, as it works for touch and mouse. And also solves quite a lot of problems on webgl.

[woeful hamlet]

hmmm

[quiet tusk]

Too be honest, I haven't looked into the new input system much, but is there a way to map Touch.Phase events to webgl click/drag events so that I can do my intended mobile builds and webgl? I just want to know if its possible before I head down that path. Thanks.

[austere grotto]

Touch.Phase is a concept from the old input system.

when you say "WebGL click/drag events" what are you talking about?
Are you talking about Unity's UGUI OnDrag OnPointerClick OnPointerDown etc? If so, yes you can use the new input system with that stuff, and with touch.

[quiet tusk]

I just wondered if I can utilize one controller logic that will work for both. I do utilize Touch.Phase.Moved/Stationary etc. I was unsure if the new input system would handle the same way regardless if it was on webgl or mobile.

But yes, the built in OnMouse(events)

[austere grotto]

OnMouse events dont work with the new system. You should use the more robust UGUI events

these https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/SupportedEvents.html

[quiet tusk]

so you are saying void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData) detects both mobile touch and webgl mouse touches ?

[quiet tusk]

Maybe the question should be worded this way. Does the new input system allow universal logic that accepts input from mobile touch and webgl pointer events that doesnt require writing custom code for each implementation?

[austere grotto]

I don't really know what that means exactly

[quiet tusk]

You know how you can map multiple console controllers to the new input system using mapping ?

can the same thing be done for mobile touch and webgl pointer events

[austere grotto]

in what way? Like each finger being a separate player or something?

[quiet tusk]

What I want to accomplish:
Develop a game that builds to mobile devices (Currently using Input.GetTouch(0) / Phases)
Build down the same game in WebGL where the player can use the mouse for click/drag/hold events.
Expected Outcome: (using new input system)
I want to use universal logic that supports both, without writing custom logic for each event.

I don't need to support multiple touch events

[somber shoal]

So

i want to select Right Stick (gamepad)

and it wont let me

anyone know why

[glass yacht]

Not sure as to the terms (I don't have Unity open) but I think your control is set to a single value whereas you need a Vector2 to work with the Right Stick

[somber shoal]

Ok ty i will check that out once the new unity installs

worked

[somber shoal]

i think my issue might be input system related for my player action map

my playercontrols script aint working

i cant move

[austere grotto]

Show how you set things up?

probably missing something simple

like an Enable() call

[topaz jasper]

hi, how would you manage multiple gamepads and UI, with old input system? where each gamepad can only interact with certain ui elements. (for context, I'm trying to make a character selection/editor screen)

[tropic solar]

yoo im having some trouble with the input actions
so the joystick works fine but the wasd inputs are only down for like .1 seconds

im not sure if this will interfere

[austere grotto]

Recommend just polling for this style of input, but if you must use events you need to subscribe to the canceled event too

[tropic solar]

im jus following a tutorial

[tropic solar]

i fixed it..keyboard input doesnt work if u have a controller plugged in. do you know how I can resolve that issue?

[upper lance]

How to map inputs to images to show what button it is?

[tropic tulip]

anyone who uses new input system who could help me with some joystick movement

the problem is

that when i drag my joystick i have to keep dragging it i want it to keep moving as long as i have dragged it from its rest position

and i want to add a keep moving function for that

can anyone help me out please

[maiden grove]

Hi,

I'm having an issue with the New Input System (1.4.4) with Unity 2022.2.1. I have two objects with a PlayerInput component: Game Engine, and a Player. Both work fine in editor, but the one in the Game Engine doesn't work in build. The Player is spawned later which I would guess has something to do with why it works... Race condition?

[tame oracle]

Your code prolly has a value thats overwritting the Editors Value during runtime @maiden grove

[maiden grove]

Which value?

[tame oracle]

Idk i would have to see the code lol

[devout basalt]

hi I was trying to create an input system with the help of the built in Unity input system. However it is not working for some reason and I am not sure why

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

namespace SG 
{ 
    public class InputHandler : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public float horizontal;
        public float vertical;
        public float moveAmount;
        public float mouseX;
        public float mouseY;

        PlayerControls inputActions;

        public Vector2 movementInput;
        Vector2 cameraInput;

        public void OnEnable()
        {
            if (inputActions == null)
            {
                inputActions = new PlayerControls();
                inputActions.PlayerMovement.Movement.performed += inputActions => movementInput = inputActions.ReadValue<Vector2>();
                inputActions.PlayerMovement.Camera.performed += i => cameraInput = i.ReadValue<Vector2>();
            }

            inputActions.Enable();

        }

        private void OnDisable()
        {
            inputActions.Disable();
        }

        public void TickInput(float delta)
        {
            MoveInput(delta);
        }

        private void MoveInput(float delta)
        {
            horizontal = movementInput.x;
            vertical = movementInput.y;
            moveAmount = Mathf.Clamp01(Mathf.Abs(horizontal) + Mathf.Abs(vertical));
            mouseX = cameraInput.x;
            mouseY = cameraInput.y;
        }
    }
}

here is my code

I am assuming the first half of the code is working as the "movementInput" is giving me values however there is no change of values in both horizontal and vertical

horizontal and vertical are simply extracting the x and y coordinates from "movementInput" without including anything complicated and so I am really confused why it is not working

[vocal jay]

Where are you calling TickInput?

Also I would remove the closures in this code, as they make this a lot harder to read

(Basically replacing your lambdas with proper methods)

[devout basalt]

It's for the use of player movement part🤔 Not 100% sure why is it necessary as I am referencing someone else work

But is it the reason why it is not working?

[devout basalt]

Sorry I am new to unity and coding so I do not quite understand what are you referring🙏 do you mind elaborate more on that part?

[vocal jay]

If your MoveInput method is never being called it's not going to do anything

[devout basalt]

Oh shoot. Right, missed that part🥲

Thanks so much for the help. I will take a look and see what I can do tmr. It's like 4.40 am in my country and I am going to bed🤭

But really appreciated for the help🙏

[vocal jay]

All good 👍
Since you asked earlier, I'll rewrite it to remove the closures, you can look at it tomorrow if you like.

[devout basalt]

Sure. Thanks for the extra effort🙏

[vocal jay]

        public void OnEnable()
        {
            if (inputActions == null)
            {
                inputActions = new PlayerControls();
                inputActions.PlayerMovement.Movement.performed += MovementPerformed;
                inputActions.PlayerMovement.Camera.performed += CameraPerformed;
            }
            inputActions.Enable();
        }

        private void MovementPerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
        {
            movementInput = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        }

        private void CameraPerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
        {
            cameraInput = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        }

This is what I meant

It just makes it easier to see what is going on without the variable capture

[tropic solar]

public void HandleCameraRotation(float mouseX, float mouseY)
        {
            lookAngle += (mouseX * lookSpeed);
            pivotAngle -= (mouseY * pivotSpeed);
            pivotAngle = Mathf.Clamp(pivotAngle, minPivot, maxPivot);

            Vector3 rotation = Vector3.zero;
            rotation.y = lookAngle;
            Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotation);
            myTransform.rotation = targetRotation;

            rotation = Vector3.zero;
            rotation.x = pivotAngle;

            targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotation);
            camPivotTransform.localRotation = targetRotation;
        }

can sum1 tell me why my camera is kind of glitchy? when i run HandleCameraRotation in void update its smooth but the player goes all blurry, in fixed update its a bit jittery, and in LateUpdate it's also blurry

[subtle grove]

my controls file was accidentally made into a visual studios file instead of an action input file, how do i change it back??

[subtle grove]

anyone plz im so lost : ((

[tropic solar]

make a new control file?

[arctic elk]

Hello, I have this function that gets called when I press the left mouse button. this is Character class and I have two more classes, GunSlinger and Warrior. When I inherit from Character on GunSlinger it works fine. But when I inherit from warrior. I don't even get the print. What is wrong with this new input system?

@here

[austere grotto]

show code

[austere grotto]

show full scripts for warrior and character

[arctic elk]

ok, this photo is in the base class "Character"

the one above

this is the one on warrior

[austere grotto]

this doesn't show how OnPrimaryAttack is called

show full scripts please

!code

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[tired notch]

how can i make sure that two buttons/keys need to be pressed to trigger a certain action

[arctic elk]

Ok I'll use those

Can I tag you when I want to send them ?

[austere grotto]

theres a binding with modifier thing

[tired notch]

can you expand by what you mean by modifier?

[arctic elk]

@austere grotto the character base class is : https://gdl.space/pamaguyucu.cpp

[austere grotto]

modifier is the second key

[arctic elk]

@austere grotto this is warrior class : https://gdl.space/hafivekero.cs

@austere grotto and this is gunslinger : https://gdl.space/ilaliqaqoc.cs

[austere grotto]

            if (!_canDoPrimaryAttack) return;
            base.OnPrimaryAttack();```

you are only conditionally calling the base method

[arctic elk]

I tried putting it above and that also doesn't work

[austere grotto]

it's onenable

you are not calling base.OnEnable

so it never runs

and the subscriptions never happen

[arctic elk]

I also don't do that on gunslinger tho

[austere grotto]

gunslinger is fine because it doesn't define OnEnable of its own

only warrior does

[arctic elk]

ok ima try that

[austere grotto]

You'll also want to do it for Awake and OnDisable too

and anything else you "override" in subclasses

[arctic elk]

I'll let you know

[austere grotto]

(you'll need to mark them virtual)

I'm 100% confident this is your main issue

I've seen this problem many times before

[tired notch]

okay so i found the modifier plus binding but it seems i can only have a singular binding for either the modifier or the key. i want to try setup a sprint so i can have the left shift as the binding but i need wasd as the modifier in a 2d vector? is this possible?

[austere grotto]

you'd just do this with two actions

a move action and a sprint action

[arctic elk]

@austere grotto THANK YOU SO MUCH

It works lez gooo

I get it now

I didn't know it automatically overrides other functions

[austere grotto]

super simple in update:

float speed = sprintAction.IsPressed() ? sprintSpeed : normalSpeed;
Vector2 moveInput = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();```

then just move using moveInput and speed

[tired notch]

okay sorry could you explain what the ? and the : are
i think i get that if (sprintAction.IsPressed()) {speed = sprint speed} else {speed = normalSpeed}

sorry im a pretty amateur coder

[austere grotto]

yes it's exactly what you said

just a short way of writing that

[tired notch]

okay great so i just use the sprint key to change the speed of the walk

[austere grotto]

yep

[tired notch]

is that still possible to do if i want my sprint key to also be my roll key. im trying to copy the dark souls movement scheme for my controller if this is any help in understanding

[austere grotto]

sure why not

doesn't really change much here

[tepid swift]

i want to crate a joystick with on 8 axis movement also i want to normalize the value i tried the process and using .normalized but it does not work idk what's wrong

[tired notch]

to do that would i have to use interactions, like if it is tap then roll but if held then sprint? would that work with one action being held and one action being tap?

also may seem really stupid at this point but how can i reference like sprintAction.IsPressed() in my script?

[austere grotto]

neither would use a hold interaction

[austere grotto]

for this you'd need to have a reference to the input action somehow

either using public InputActionReference sprintAction; and dragging/dropping. Or doing like InputAction sprintAction = myPlayerInput.actions["Player/Sprint"] or if using the generation actions class myInputObject.Player.Sprint;

or directly defining it public InputAction sprintAction; etc..

there's many way sit all depends on how you set things up

[tired notch]

is there a way i can some how import my input system and then do like inputSystem.sprintAction so i dont need to define all my actions or is that not possible?

[austere grotto]

yes using the generated actions class

[tired notch]

okay so i make a reference to that (i think that would be using objects) then i can just do PlayerInputMaster.sprintAction right?

[austere grotto]

it'd be:
myInputObject.MapName.ActionName

[tired notch]

    {
        if (controlInput.Gameplay.Sprint.IsPressed())
        {

        }
    }

okay so when i press left shift, the if() will be true right? sorry this may seem really basic but ive been trying this for days and i understood nothing and today i think i might be getting it

[austere grotto]

you would check this in Update (ok if this function is called in Update)

also just make sure controlInput.Enable() is called in OnEnable or Start or something

[tired notch]

would it be fine in Awake()?

[austere grotto]

sure, but kinda better if you Enable() and Disable() it in OnEnable/OnDisable

[tired notch]

why is it better to do that?

[austere grotto]

in case you disable your script it will stop it from capturing input (wasting resources)

[tired notch]

ah alright that makes sense, thank you

ive also been using float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"); to get my input but now im using a pass through action and a 2d vector, can i some how just easily store the data froom the 2d vector in the horizontal and vertical floats?

[austere grotto]

Vector2 moveInput = myMoveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();

[tired notch]

oh my god youre amazing thank you so much i actually got it all working

ive been trying literally for a week now and i havent got it working

thank you so much

[stoic bolt]

Somebody save my sanity, there must be a better way!
keys 1-9 will be able to select menu items from my menu system. In the base menu class, I'm setting up the callbacks:

is there a way I can pass a value through with this binding, so that I only need one method; SelectOption, instead of 9 methods...

because I'm about to copy out 9 identical wrapper methods that just pass an int to SelectOption

:V

[austere grotto]

+= () => SelectOption(n);```

[stoic bolt]

I really need to wrap my head around all the ways you can use deltas, don't I? 😄

[austere grotto]

lambdas*

and yes 😂

you were in the right alphabet at least.

[stoic bolt]

pfft haha, just goes to show

this is probably the 5th or 6th time this project that my problem has been not understanding proper lambda use

(thanks!)

ookay next problem. doing this requires SelectOption() to take a callback context parameter

but I'm not sure how to get that

I think that's the problem: Argument type 'lambda expression' is not assignable to parameter type 'System.Action<UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.CallbackContext>'

[austere grotto]

+= ctx => SelectOption(n);```

or even just:
+= _ => SelectOption(n); since you're ignoring it you can use a discard

[stoic bolt]

more lambda magic! The discard worked, and that's all I need

[jagged wyvern]

I thought assigning it that way was wrong because it causes memory leaks or something

All the tuts i see say you need to be able to remove a listener to prevent mem leaks and you cant remove an anonymous method when you use lambdas

[austere grotto]

it will make it impossible to remove the listener, individually, yes,

THis may or may not be a problem in this person's specific case

It won't be a memory leak though

[jagged wyvern]

Ah ok

I wish i knew what was going on in the back end but whenever i try to learn about this stuff in technical documents from ms it just goes over my head

Also for the method that just reads a numbers key in onr of my projectsi just made an action with bindings tied to all number keys and the method extracts which key was pressed

So i only need to assign on method to one actio

Ill post the code when im at my pc

[tired notch]

so im trying to assign sprint and roll to the same button (button east) and have put tap interaction on the roll and set the max duration to 0.2 (default). i have put the held interaction on the sprint and set hold time to 0.4. im under the assumption that if i let go of the button in under 0.2 (units im not sure what units) then the roll will play but if i hold it for more than 0.4, the sprint should activate

am i right in this assumption?

[austere grotto]

the units are seconds

and yes as long as you are looking for the action's performed event

[vapid yarrow]

ProcessEventsInDynamicUpdate vs ProcessEventsInFixedUpdate
What is the pros and cons ?

[chrome walrus]

I guess dynamic is being called/checked more often then fixed, as this is relying on your setting on how often fixedupdate gets called / second.

[ornate gust]

Hi there, I'm trying to get a pinch gesture to work on touch. I'm using this custom composite: (https://forum.unity.com/threads/implementing-pinching.1369809/) trying to make a uniform input action for zooming.
The issue I am having is that the phases of touch #0 and touch #1 always return 'none' (in fact, each touch has all fields at 0/none although other touch reliant behaviours work). I do also enable enhanced touch in an awake function and am quite certain I have the inputs wired up correctly, since my Debug.Log calls do fire at the appropriate locations to make sure code executes that far. If anyone wants to help, I'm happy to post github gists of the relevant code, just wondering if there are any commonly known errors or esoteric knowledge about the numbered touch inputs in the input-system. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I can't seem to find anything in the forums or on stackoverflow either.

[limber sky]

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew how to access the Home button either through the PicoSDK or through the new Input System, I've seen online that there are ways to disable the home button, but not ways to actually run code on it being pressed.

The official docs don't say much in terms of how to access it
https://developer-global.pico-interactive.com/document/unity/input-mapping

And the Input System doesn't have anything for the home button.

[chrome walrus]

What happens if you hit the Listen Button and hit the home button?

[limber sky]

I considered this, but I'm not sure how to get the Pico working with the PC in the editor. I've seen that you can do this through steam VR but thought that might be an issue since its not the correct input system

[chrome walrus]

Did you consider the docs about the name? https://developer-global.pico-interactive.com/document/unity/input-mapping

[limber sky]

Hmm, I was assuming it would be a controller key, but looking at it in terms of the keycode it may work with KeyCode.Home, I'll look into this, sorry

Thanks btw

[grizzled fractal]

If you can't get it working I recommend asking on their support forum. They are pretty responsive

[limber sky]

Thanks, I ended up finding a work around actually. I realised that what I wanted did the exact same thing as using OnApplicationFocus(...) when this returned false. Since the Home button takes focus from the game and onto the main menu, this would run first and then go to the menu. ^-^

I think in the future I would want to see if I can access the Home button input action properly but for now this works well xD

Thank you though

[grizzled fractal]

It might not be possible to get it after all, since it's a system button that shouldn't be possible to override

Sounds like a good enough workaround

[limber sky]

Yeah, I did try using the Home refernce from the keyboard at first since that was the only one that seemed to share the same KeyCode, but didn't seem to work. Though this makes sense since this may refer only to the keyboard one.

[tepid swift]

i want player to move diagonally on button press - e.g get vector2(1,1) or something like that

or are there any composite part for movement like (north-east) instead of just up down left right

[austere grotto]

make your own

Vector2 northEast = new Vector2(1, 1).normalized;```

[tepid swift]

how do i get that value on a button click?

[austere grotto]

wdym

just define it somewhere it and use it wherever you need it

e.g.

static readonly Vector2 northEast = new Vector2(1, 1).normalized;

void MyButtonHandler() {
  Vector2 direction = northEast;
}```

[tepid swift]

hmm i think there is a miscom

wait

what i want - press q to move composite part or get vector 2(1,1)

[austere grotto]

if this is from input why are you defining anything like this

[tepid swift]

so i was wondering if i should write one custom vector2composite

[austere grotto]

just read the data

Vector2 input = myInputAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();```

or

Vector2 input = myCallbackContext.ReadValue<Vector2>();```

[tepid swift]

the vector(1,1) / diagonal movement is only possible when you press 2 button at the same time like press w and d you would move north-west

i want to click just one button to get north-west

the composite part [Up] would only give me 0,1 value

[austere grotto]

this is confusing to me

can you elaborate

how would that work

are you trying to basically "rotate" the whole composite?

So that up would go up-right and left would go up-left?
and down would go down-left, and right down-right?

[tepid swift]

so when i press wasd i move up, down, right and left

[tepid swift]

yes

[austere grotto]

so just do that

Vector2 input = myAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
input = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 45) * input;```

^rotates it by 45 degrees clockwise

[tepid swift]

the how would i move up and down?

basically wasd for up, down, right and left
qezc for up-left, up-right and so on

[austere grotto]

press both W and A to move directly up

[tepid swift]

ik but i want a single button

[austere grotto]

make a second composite for the diagonals

[tepid swift]

for touch button

[austere grotto]

add them together

[austere grotto]

i don't understand what you mean

[tepid swift]

how do i do that

[austere grotto]

Make two actions

Move and MoveDiagonal

[tepid swift]

following

[austere grotto]

Then you can just do this:

void Update() {
    Vector2 normalInput = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    Vector2 diagonalInput = diagonalAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    diagonalInput = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 45) * input;
    Vector2 finalInput = (normalInput + diagonalInput).normalized;
}```

[tame quest]

How do I reference XR inputs in different scripts e.g trigger button or like the select .

[tired notch]

when you mean performed do you mean isPressed() or is that something else because I can't get isPressed() to work with both

[austere grotto]

no I mean performed

either subscribing to the performed event or checking if the current phase of the action or callback context is Performed

[tired notch]

can you explain what you mean by subscribing. i think i understand the callback context and i think it uses the notation like -= + etc

[austere grotto]

yes C# event subscription

the callback context is just the parameter to that delegate

I'm not telling you to switch to that if you're not doing it already. That's just one option.

[tired notch]

so far i havent got anywhere with it so im open to any ideas. is there a way i can implement my sprint (holding the button east down) easily into this code just by changing the if. before my sprint used to be a seperate button so isPressed() worked

                    currentMoveSpeed = sprintSpeed;
                    anim.SetInteger("condition", 2);
                    Debug.Log("is sprint / anim2");
                }

[austere grotto]

not if you want to use the Hold interaction

if you want to just know if the button is currently pressed, that works fine

if you want to check if the hold interaction has been satisfied this frame you use https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.4/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputAction_WasPerformedThisFrame

but you probably want to store isSprinting state in a bool

if (controlInput.Gameplay.Sprint.WasPerformedThisFrame()) {
  isSprinting = true;
}
if (controlInput.Gameplay.Sprint.WasReleaseThisFrame()) {
  isSprinting = false;
}``` for example

depending on how you want it to behave

[tired notch]

ah alright im getting that now

and for tap can i do WasPressedThisFrame() which returns as True only the first time i press the button right?

[austere grotto]

not if you don't want it to happen if you hold

if you want to actually use the Tap interaction you'd do the same thing as here (just with an action configured to use the Tap interaction). Tap will be performed if you press and release within a certain window of time.

WasPerformedThisFrame()

you can also go event-based 😉

[tired notch]

im getting the feeling you want me to use event-based method. would you say its better

[austere grotto]

I wouldn't say that

It's different

I think you should use whatever you're most comfortable with

[tired notch]

alright i think im gonna stick with this then, seems easier to me

im not gonna run into problems later on where by not using the event system ive made something much harder for myself will i?

[austere grotto]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[tired notch]

yeah sorry that was dumb question. my project different to anything one elses so who knows

            if (controlInput.Gameplay.Roll.WasPerformedThisFrame())
            {
                PlayerRollStart();
            }

am i doing this right, i still can't seem to roll/sprint with the same button and i think this is the issue as i roll before i sprint even if im holding

[austere grotto]

add some debug.Logs and make sure the code is running as expected

[tired notch]

okay i managed to do something but now i can sprint but can't roll and i get this error. i presume it means i did something like isPressed() somewhere for an action with a held or tap interaction but i havent done that anywher so im a bit confused

the code by the way is the same i just moved the roll to below the movement

[austere grotto]

I've never seen that error before lol. What does your code and action look like now?

[tired notch]

oh god okay sorry i fixed it, i realised i was adding interactions to only the controller bindings of the action and the keyboard actions didnt have the interactions

but good news is it all works now, i just need to adjust timing so its more snappy

thank you very much though, youre single handly saving my input

[azure hearth]

I'm having two problems with the new input system

when first starting unity, it picks up a seemingly non-existent controller

but I can remove it from the input debugger

the second is when reloading scripts, it stops getting any kind of input

[austere grotto]

reloading scripts at runtime?

[azure hearth]

yeah

[austere grotto]

that basically never works

for anything

not just input system

[azure hearth]

no fixes exist?

[austere grotto]

the fix is use only scripts where every single bit of state is serialized

it's not practical

when you change code, just go out of play mode

[azure hearth]

its kinda frustrating when I'm debugging a specific piece of code and I have to restart the game every time

well what about the first thing?

[austere grotto]

no idea

double check there's no stray controllers plugged into your computer

or on bluetooth

[azure hearth]

no bluetooth, and I only have the keyboard and mouse plugged in

completely sure of that

[pseudo jolt]

Hello, how can I separate game input from UI input ? For example, when I click on a button, my script from a totally different game object also recognizes the click

[austere grotto]

In the new input system you can separate these into different action maps and enable/disable the action maps based on context.

For example while the pause menu is showing you could disable the main game action map and enable the UI one

[pseudo jolt]

That would work, but in my case the player can interact with the UI at any moment :/

[austere grotto]

what's the "other" click handling behavior doing?

You can probably fix whatever it is by migrating that other code to use the event system too, rather than handling the input yourself

[pseudo jolt]

moves the player at cursor coordinates

[austere grotto]

yeah - that can be fixed by doing that with the event system

e.g. IPointerClickHandler / EventTrigger on some object in the game world (like the terrain or ground or whatever)

[pseudo jolt]

Okay I'll check that, thanks

This works ! Do you know if the same kind of interface exists with other inputs ?

[austere grotto]

not sure I follow

could you give an example of another input you mean?

[pseudo jolt]

keyboard

[austere grotto]

but in what context?

The keyboard generally is not associated with a pointer position for example

[pseudo jolt]

same as for the click, changing weapons with some keys, so that they are not registered when the user is typing in a text box
but it's not really a problem for now

[twilit dagger]

Hi, I'm just learning to use unity and for some reason my camera keeps going to the top left continuously, I can't control it with the mouse but it still shoots in the FPS microgame. I've tried reloading Unity, disconnecting and reconnecting all my devices, and ive spent nearly an hour looking online for solutions but the only relevent post I could find on the forems seems to be unresolved back from 2019. I havent got any controllers or other devices connected to my pc other than my mouse and keyboard and still no luck.

[frail tendon]

How can I have 2 PlayerInputs in the same scene without one of them switching to another control scheme?

I have one PlayerInput that I use for general camera control, and I set up another one for specific function in this scene. But when they both exist, one of them switches automatically to controller and one to keyboard + mouse.

[thin rain]

is using new input system for "demo" games the right choice? I tried to start my side project on my own and the new input system is starting to make me crazy (I know unity in a level of jr to mid-ish)

[delicate parcel]

Hi, I have a problem with callback context controls/action controls. I have an action with with Negative/Positive composite and when I bind DPad Left/Right to it, it somehow shows dpad left in the action's active control, despite being triggered by dpad right. Dpad right is also marked as pressed in action controls. Am I missing sth?

[chrome walrus]

the new input system is pretty straight forward after the basic tutorial for it. You create an input asset, you create your actions, then you can hook into them with performed += or whatever you need and call your functions. Once done its easy to set up again

[tardy belfry]

Im following a tutorial and I can't find the 2d vector composite

[austere grotto]

1. Change your action to: Action Type : Value, Value Type: Vector2
2. It's called Up/Left/Right/Down composite now, which will be visible once you change the action/control type

[tardy belfry]

Thank you soooo muchhhhh!

Have a great day!

[tardy jewel]

how do i fix this

i cant find an input setting

[tardy jewel]

what do i change in that setting?

[thorny river]

oh wait nvm sorry i didn't see you forgot the space

you could also rename the axis to MouseX using that setting though

[tardy jewel]

thanks man

i fixed it

[thorny river]

np

[wintry dragon]

has anyone here successfully setup multiple gamepads with the input manager? the second gamepad will create another instance of the player prefab, but either gamepad will then control both players

[abstract zinc]

Hey yall, This probably isn't the place to ask, but I was recently tasked with installing a new vr game onto a beat saber arcade cabinet. I have the game in unity, but I have no idea how to access the card reader from usb (At least I think it's usb). Does anybody have an idea on how to do so in c#?

I have a boolean that's set to false, but I need to set it to true once someone scans their card

[tardy jewel]

Why can't I jump in unity
First person 3D
I followed a tutorial because I couldnt get it to work
But it still doesnt work
Idk if its just my computer
Could someone please help

[austere grotto]

you will have missed something in your tutorial / done something improperly,

[pulsar scarab]

I'm not able open any .inputasset, anytime I double click it or click the edit asset button, nothing opens. What could be a likely issue

[chrome walrus]

Restart unity, reset the UI layout, maybe readd the Input Asset Tab

[pulsar scarab]

how would I readd the input asset tab?

[chrome walrus]

Let me fire up a project with input real quick

[chrome walrus]

What does your inspector looklike when you select the inputactions asset?

[chrome walrus]

And clicking on edit asset? Does nothing?

[pulsar scarab]

double clicking on the file and clicking on the edit asset does nothing

[chrome walrus]

Oh wait, is that inside a package?

You are in the package part of project view, right?

You gotta copy that to your Assets Folder for it to be editable

[chrome walrus]

Packages can never be edited, cause they get reset as soon as you update/reimport them

[pulsar scarab]

I don't think that's the issue, I get the same thing when I create a new one in the Assets Folder

[chrome walrus]

You could also just try to reinstall the input system package and see if that fixes the issue

The screen is empty btw

[true quiver]

I'm embedded a unity client within a WPF application and I'm having issues with, as far as I can tell, Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"/"Mouse Y"). It works fine when not embedded, but does not work when embedded.

Here is part which deals with rotating camera around the object

        if (IsCameraRotationAllowed())
        {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            Cursor.visible = false;

            Camera.transform.RotateAround(HeadModel.position,
                                    Camera.transform.up,
                                    Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * MouseSpeed);

            Camera.transform.RotateAround(HeadModel.position,
                                Camera.transform.right,
                                -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * MouseSpeed);
        } 

IsCameraRotationAllowed just checks if the left button is pressed. The cursor's lockstate changes as expected but the camera's transform is not modified

[fossil walrus]

Hello ! is there any way to have more than one .WithCancelingThrough in a rebind operation or should I just cry in my bed for eternity ?

[chrome walrus]

Did you check the docs on this?

var rebind = new RebindingOperation();

// Cancel from keyboard escape key.
rebind
    .WithCancelingThrough("<Keyboard>/escape");

// Cancel from any control with "Cancel" usage.
// NOTE: This can be dangerous. The control that the wants to bind to may have the "Cancel"
//       usage assigned to it, thus making it impossible for the user to bind to the control.
rebind
    .WithCancelingThrough("*/{Cancel}");

[fossil walrus]

Yep but i couldn't modify the inputs in the */{Cancel} in any way

[shrewd lodge]

Hey. My input is not performing myaction that ive set up

I press space bar and nothing happens, its supposed to log into my console.

here's the code...

using UnityEngine;
public class PlayerControl : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody2D player_rb;
    public float jump_power = 5f;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        player_rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    public void Jumping()
    {
        Debug.Log("Jump!");
    }
}

I think i have all the steps made correctly, am i wrong?

This is my first time working with the new input system

[chrome walrus]

Do you even read your inspector ? 😄 Device Lost Event?

Well your character should jump when you detach your device 😄

[shrewd lodge]

Ah no thats because i changed a lil format. but the script was not working before hand.. my bad

OH

WAIT

oh

which one should i use? reassigned or changed?

regained it says

nvm i know

.. ithink..

[chrome walrus]

These events are for when a input device gets detected I think. You need to hook into the performed action

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput.html

This might help you understanding the input system setup 🙂

[shrewd lodge]

wait... okay i understand what's wrong.. my Jump action is nit showing in the Events tab

ah... because i didnt press the drop down menu :)))

[chrome walrus]

Not sure where you mean, never worked with the playerinput, always doing the manual coding with input system 😄 But glad you found it 🙂

[shrewd lodge]

needed to press that

so this shows

i swear to god its the dumbest things that hold us for the longest times

[chrome walrus]

I totally agree on that 😄 Been there a lot of times. glad you found it 🙂

[topaz jasper]

hi, I'm using the new input system. Is it possible to have multiple gamepads control the same UI?

What I'm trying to do: all gamepads can control the same UI (main menu). Then each gamepad is controlling its UI during character selection.

[mighty lance]

I am looking for a good tutorial on controlling ui with keyboard and gamepads. If it includes steamdeck then even better

[austere grotto]

It pretty much works automatically unless you do something to screw it up

Just make sure you select one of the UI elements at first

[mighty lance]

My ui is more complex than the automatic navigation can handle out the box

[fossil walrus]

Then welcome to the marvelous world of "custom scripts for UI behaviors" :')

You should be able to override the different classes that inherit from Selectable (Button, Toggle, ...) and then override different methods like OnSelect() and FindSelectableOnRight() / Left()

Or making a general state machine script for your UI

[rough pumice]

is there any good way of telling which index is what action, as i have a Move action that is 0, but now i have a Teleport action, and i can't seem to find what index it is... Is there a way to tell? Or do i just trial and error until success?

this really seems annoying to do via trial and error, perhaps im doing something wrong? ```cs
UnityEngine.Object.FindObjectOfType<PlayerInput>().actionEvents[0].AddListener(ThrowInputs);
UnityEngine.Object.FindObjectOfType<PlayerInput>().actionEvents[1].AddListener(ThrowTeleport);

[frigid ridge]

You could define the listener methods and hook them up through the inspector

[rough pumice]

im using a SystemBase, so unfortunately i do not believe that to be possible

aha i worked it out, in the inspector you can copy property paths, which then allows you to grab array indexes from the actions yayyy

[solar orbit]

why i can't add action for specific devices? did i something wrong in video

[digital dune]

You need to set the binding of the action

[worldly echo]

if I want to destroy a game object via touching it do i need the touch position and game object position to match for that to happen or is there another way?

like when u touch the game object's collider with ur finger it gets destroyed

[digital dune]

The usual way is doing a raycast from the touch position to find what object was touched

[austere grotto]

Even better/easier way is use OnMouseDown or IPointerDownHandler

[amber wigeon]

does someone know how to adjust thumbstick dead zone? i changed it in project settings but it doesnt really change anything. im using new input system

[scenic socket]

In a mod I wrote I'm using InputSystem.DisableDevice() to lock out control to a game so only my UI can be interacted with. Everything functions as expected, however doing it on the mouse [ InputSystem.DisableDevice(Mouse.current) ] after like 5/10 seconds the mouse cursor disappears from my UI, but can still interact with the UI as expected. Is there a better way to block out controls?

[austere grotto]

Why not just disable the action map?

the typical approach is have one action map for gameplay and one for UI, and you just disable the gameplay one when in a menu

[scenic socket]

I'll have to do more research on that, not familiar enough with the system - when I looked into this earlier nothing was easily exposed for me to modify without patching in

[austere grotto]

Action maps are there for this exact reason

[scenic socket]

Do you have any references for disabling it at runtime? Everything I'm seeing refers to the editor which won't work for me.

[austere grotto]

myActionMap.Disable();```

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionMap.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputActionMap_Disable

[scenic socket]

going to dig into it a bit more, but I doubt this will work for me - the game dev isn't exposing the action map to anything public and I'm still currently of the opinion a mixin for this would be excessive

[austere grotto]

mixin?

[scenic socket]

patch

mixin all the same thing lol

[austere grotto]

i don't know the context of what you're talking about jsut saying this is the standard approach

getting an action map reference is quite easy, it just depends on the setup

[scenic socket]

I'm not writing a game, I'm working on a mod

patch == harmony runtime injections

[austere grotto]

well idk what you do or don't have access to

never done modding myself

find it hard to believe you wouldn't have access though if you have access to input data

but that all depends on how they've set their game up I suppose

[mighty lance]

yup - I had to go down this path. Most of it have been explicitly settings the navigation but for more complex parts I had to make custom scripts..

[fossil walrus]

Custom scripts are the fundamentals of using the Input System of Unity 🥲

[austere grotto]

Well it's an input system not a UI system.

[inner star]

Is there a way for the player input manager when a player joins for it to call a function?

[austere grotto]

Yep there are events for that https://docs.unity.cn/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.4/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInputManager.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_PlayerInputManager_onPlayerJoined

[inner star]

Thanks!

[inner star]

Does it provide the player that it spawned or should i spawn it inside of the function?

[austere grotto]

Yes it provides the player that spawned

that's why the delegate is Action<PlayerInput>

[inner star]

Do i put it inside the parameter of function eg:

    public void PlayerJoin(Action<PlayerInput> action)
    {
        
    }```
Sorry about not knowing this

[bold jackal]

so I have those 2 functions

and these 2 subscriptions

yet only the Jump one works

and the other doesn't

why

[austere grotto]

The parameter is just PlayerInput

[austere grotto]

Did you enable the whole thing

Also how are you checking if it's working

And how did you set up the action/bindings

[inner star]

k, i decided because it was easier to switch to c# events which helped me get this. THanks!

[bold jackal]

Yes I enabled the whole thing

[bold jackal]

Debug.Log a message in the OnWalk method, and Debug.Log the value of inputhorizontal

[bold jackal]

sorry for the 3 pings lol

I am sortof sure that it's not the fault of the InputAction since it worked before, the only change I've made is that I made the PlayerInputActions object external from a singleton, instead of within script

the Jump function works and it's set-up in the same way

and _runHeld also works correctly (it's fixed update)

Also the control key works for crouch but S doesn't

for some reason

[austere grotto]

Should be Action type Axis I believe

Or at least Value/float

[bold jackal]

It worked before as Value

like I said, I only changed the position of the PlayerInputActions variable from being a member to being referenced from a singleton

and I've made sure the execution order runs the InputManager before the other scripts

[bold jackal]

Update: It appears WASD aren't working, I tried switching the S to an X and the X worked

but changing it back to S stopped it from working

Yep, WASD keys are not working

changed left to z and right to c and crouch to x, all work

what is happening

Seems to be a Unity problem

[bold jackal]

@austere grotto any idea?

[bold jackal]

Updated Unity, bug fixed. I hate unity.

[boreal ruin]

Hey, is there a way to save on a JSON file the bindings in a input action asset

and to load them as well?

[rough pumice]

i have a joystick (logitech attack 3 specifically (does it count as a joystick?) ) and it automatically just worked for the ui, but i cannot get my player movement to work with it... No matter what binding i give my player movement it doesn't seem to do anything... Is there anyway i can work out what binding i need in order to get a vector2 from this joystick?

[woeful furnace]

Using the new Input System package, I am trying to get multiple axis and buttons working on the same action. I thought it would be pretty straightforward, but it doesn't seem to work at all. I'm only testing with a Steam Controller right now, but it seems like for some reason only one of the many buttons/axis I've assigned to the action will actually trigger the action. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[austere grotto]

Pretty sure the north/south/east/west bindings cover all of that stuff. No need to double up like that

[supple jungle]

Yes. @austere grotto is right. You need to change the action type from button to Value, and after modify the control type, in this case, it is Vector2. After you can add bindings with the type Up/Down/Left/Right, and you can rebind each key in the slots.

[boreal ruin]

Hey, i have multiple errors with rebinding UI, When I click on the button (from the prefab), the rebinding UI is appearing, but the first time I'm pressing a bind, the game freezes, and i have those kind of errors :

I don't really know how to fix it

[spark spire]

Hey guys, I am trying to simulate clicks on my UI for my unit tests in unity using the following function:

        Camera camera = GameObject.Find(cameraName).GetComponent<Camera>();
        Vector3 screenPos = camera.WorldToScreenPoint(uiElement.transform.position);
        Set(mouse.position, screenPos);
        Click(mouse.leftButton);

Currently, I want to test if the menu changes from the main menu to the settings menu. When I run the test code using this function code(^) it does not simulate the click. I have a few questions:

1. Does the InputSystem's Mouse have a different cartesian layout than Input.mousePosition?
2. Does the type of camera (i.e. Orthographic or Perspective) affect the clicks? Since Perspective was giving me the screenPos as (0.00, 0.00, 0.00) where as Orthographic was giving me the screenPos as the position mentioned in the editor...

[agile otter]

i am trying to implement a checkpoint system, but when the player respawns at the checkpoint, pressing spacebar reloads the scene

i have no idea what could be causing this as the only script reading input from the spacebar is the playercontroller

[agile otter]

fixed, turns out i forgot about my respawn button

[night dew]

If you want to change key-binds at run time , that is done by saving and loading so called BindingOverrides.
There are two extension methods for that purpose.

• UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionRebindingExtensions.LoadBindingOverridesFromJson
• UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionRebindingExtensions.SaveBindingOverridesAsJson

Question 1:
Is there a way i can see /check which bindings and overrides are actually active? I try to use the InputSystem Rebinding-Example and it does not work.

Question 2:
I'm using an instance of the class whose sourceCode is generated from an InputSystem-Asset. The Unity InputSystem Rebinding-Example however works on the asset. Are those linked to the same instance at runtime or does the C#-Script create a whole different instance?
Edit: Question 2 got answered and the answer is "no, they are not the same, they dont interact with each other and the Unity InputSystem Rebinding-Example does not work with C#-Generated classes" ...oh well.

[boreal ruin]

yeah i got it, but the input system doesn't answer as i need, so it's ok i revert it ^^

[tepid badger]

Mouse and touch coordinates are in screen space, direct from the OS. I'd recommend looking into creating a custom InputModule dedicated to handling unit tests so you can work a little close to game logic as everything input related will get processed by an input module anyway. That will allow tests to focus on game logic instead of handling input spaces.

[polar timber]

how do i better organize this im having issues with the coding rn since i gotta reference each dash action one by one and its getting repetitive and messy

[chrome walrus]

What a channel journey 😄 So what is your issue? How do you reference them right now?

[polar timber]

im kind of new to the new input system so heres my code

private void OnEnable()
    {
        movement = playerInputActions.Player.Movement;
        dashUp = playerInputActions.Player.DashUp;
        dashDown= playerInputActions.Player.DashDown;
        dashLeft = playerInputActions.Player.DashLeft;
        dashRight= playerInputActions.Player.DashRight;

        movement.Enable();
        dashLeft.Enable();
        dashRight.Enable();
        dashUp.Enable();
        dashDown.Enable();

        playerInputActions.Player.DashUp = 
    }

its unfinished

[chrome walrus]

Okay, so you can use the .performed value to know, if some key was hit. Where would you go from there?

[polar timber]

no im not asking how to continue the code

is like

i gotta reference dashup dashdown dashleft dashright

is there a better way to do this

[chrome walrus]

Why do you need to reference them?

[chrome walrus]

Just to enable them?

[polar timber]

yea

[chrome walrus]

playerInputActions.Player.Enable();

that should enable everything

[polar timber]

oh

[chrome walrus]

or maybe even playerInputActions.Enable(); not sure 😄

[polar timber]

is there any way to sort of group multi tap input actions

[digital dune]

You can make Dash a Vector2 and sett the buttons as an Up/Down/Left/Right composite:

[polar timber]

problem is i cant make them multi tap if its vector 2

[digital dune]

You would need to implement that logic yourself, yeah

But otherwise you can't group them

[violet niche]

Hey, i just noticed that using a Gamepad and binding a trigger (Left or Right, with Press and release button interaction), when i release slowly the button stays pressed until i press that button again

Is there any way to avoid this? Is this intended to work like that or an issue?

im using wasReleasedThisFrame to check

[chrome walrus]

Did you double check with another controller? It could also just be the controller outputting wrong values when handled this way. Just to be sure

[small phoenix]

Hi, I have a script implementing IDragHandler interface, but the OnDrag method is called with the Trigger button of my XR Controller. I don't know why, I'd like to change it for the Grip button. Anyone can help please ?
I am using new input system and XR Toolkit

[violet niche]

I need to check that just wanted to make sure if other people got this behavior when released very slowly

it can perfectly be the controller

[chrome walrus]

Ah okay, yeah, I did not experience that issue yet, tho I have not actively tried to replicate it

[violet niche]

Im using the visual debugger sample UI and the values seem to be very acurate

im not really sure but i believe its because of the way wasReleasedThisFrame works

is possible that because of the slow input it is not considered "pressed"?

public bool wasReleasedThisFrame => device.wasUpdatedThisFrame && !IsValueConsideredPressed(value) && IsValueConsideredPressed(ReadValueFromPreviousFrame());

[chrome walrus]

Oh, well looking at this, that might be the case

[violet niche]

Just realized it is indeed a bug

im tired of these bugs fr

[chrome walrus]

These days, you will not find software without... they just keep too much work on features everywhere 😄 But yeah, so the wasReleased is a bug because of the slow movement?

[violet niche]

i think its the opposite (too fast?) im not sure

https://forum.unity.com/threads/inputsystem-onevent-inconsistencies-with-mouse-buttons-and-wasreleasedthisframe.816384/

[chrome walrus]

At least they seem to have some workaround in the forums

[violet niche]

yeah it perfectly worked, thanks for the feedback btw

[chrome walrus]

yw even if I did not really do something 😄

[proud bison]

The PlayerInputManager class exposes a method to manually join a player but I can't find how to remove one?

[chrome walrus]

playerLeftEvent?

[proud bison]

@chrome walrus That's just a callback to notify the player has left

[chrome walrus]

You want to remove the player?

[proud bison]

Aye

[chrome walrus]

Cant you just destroy the player? Not sure about it tho

[proud bison]

Ah, yeah they prob tied the state to the prefab created with join

good call

[chrome walrus]

thats maybe why you got a playerleft event but not a leave function, even if I would expect that, but I guess the join functino is just named badly here 😄

[proud bison]

Another Q input systems friends,

I'm trying to manually read values from an input actions asset within a certain class. All values read default regardless of whether or not they should, unless there is a PlayerInput class somewhere in the scene. If there is a PlayerInput class, proper values can be read.

Why is this happening?

[chrome walrus]

You need to enable your player input, either by having the component playerinput or by creating yourself a new one at runtime YourPlayerClass newClass = new etc etc. and then newClass.Enable();

[proud bison]

@chrome walrus No way to manually listen to input without the PlayerInput class?

[chrome walrus]

As I said, in your script, you create an instance of your class and enable that

[proud bison]

@chrome walrus I'm unclear on what you're saying. What is YourPlayerClass supposed to be? Are you proposing I inherit from PlayerInput?

[chrome walrus]

public MyClass : MonoBehaviour
{
  public MyInputClassGeneratedByUnity myInput;
  void Start(){
    myInput = new MyInputClass...();
    myInput.Enable();
  }
}

[proud bison]

@chrome walrus Cool, thanks

[tough hatch]

Hey! I'm trying to copy state from the controls of an input system-managed device into the state of a custom "virtual" input device. Next, I'm trying to queue the state of the custom device using InputSystem.QueueStateEvent in the OnUpdate method included with IInputUpdateCallbackReceiver. The values displayed in the Input Debugger are unexpected and constant across updates.

Here is a snippet of my code. Both my custom device and the rightHandDevice extend the XRController device type.

CustomXRControllerDeviceState state = new CustomXRControllerDeviceState();

state.triggerPressed = rightHandDevice.GetChildControl<ButtonControl>("triggerPressed");
state.buttonSouth = rightHandDevice.GetChildControl<ButtonControl>("primaryButton");
state.gripPressed = rightHandDevice.GetChildControl<ButtonControl>("gripPressed");

...

InputSystem.QueueStateEvent(this, state);

Documentation is lacking for custom input devices (I've watched the excellent Rene Damm tutorial). Quite stuck - if anyone has experience with this, please let me know. Thank you!

[desert mauve]

https://i.imgur.com/4d6Tqmh.png why is this giving me a error?

InvalidOperationException: Instance not valid
UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionSetupExtensions+BindingSyntax.Erase () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.3.0/InputSystem/Actions/InputActionSetupExtensions.cs:1483)
FirstPersonController.Update () (at Assets/Imported Assets/ModularFirstPersonController/FirstPersonController/FirstPersonController.cs:304)

[austere grotto]

I'd guess it couldn't find that binding?

[desert mauve]

Ok i'll see what i can change

[austere grotto]

you'd want to check if the binding accessor is valid before using it probably?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionSetupExtensions.BindingSyntax.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputActionSetupExtensions_BindingSyntax_valid

[desert mauve]

How would i do that?

[austere grotto]

I just linked you to the property

[desert mauve]

oh ye i'm lookiong

I'm not seeing anything but boxes telling me that its a InvalidOperationException

[austere grotto]

I linked the way to check, right here.

[desert mauve]

Basically i'm saying, that i'm seeing a whole lot of nothing

I'm looking at the doc

[austere grotto]

I don't understand what you mean then

[desert mauve]

I'm saying that i dont know what i'm looking at in the doc

[austere grotto]

that is the property to check if the binding accessor is valid

[austere grotto]

You are looking at a property, which tells you if the binding accessor is valid

[desert mauve]

and?

[austere grotto]

and that is how you check if the binding accessor is valid

[desert mauve]

ok

[austere grotto]

if you check that before calling Erase on it for example, you will never get the InvalidOperationException

[desert mauve]

https://i.imgur.com/gZ3GVz9.png This is what i'm getting inside of this script

this is the code

[desert mauve]

oh ok

[austere grotto]

what does this have to do with the earlier question?

[desert mauve]

It is part of the error

[austere grotto]

FirstPersonController.cs:304 is the relevant part

[desert mauve]

okay

[desert mauve]

So what line of code do i put before erasing the binds?

its just showing declerations

[austere grotto]

code checking that it's valid by reading this property

[desert mauve]

so what makes the code not valid?

[austere grotto]

what makes what code not valid?

it's not the code that is invalid, it's the binding accessor

I'd guess it happens when you try to call "ChangeBinding" with a binding string that does not exist on the Action.

[desert mauve]

https://i.imgur.com/TUtfF8a.png

So this isnt what i'm supposed to put?

[austere grotto]

i have no idea

it depends what bindings are on your Action

[desert mauve]

That is the binding

https://i.imgur.com/xWqxyrl.png

[fallen wasp]

How can I make the values smoothly go from -1 to 1? Right now it can only have three values: -1, 0, and 1. I want it to quickly lerp between values like the old input system with axis did

Does it have something to do with this?

[chrome walrus]

a key can only be pressed or not be pressed. if you want smoothing with keyboard input, you need to do it codewise

[fallen wasp]

Okay. Thank you for answering my question

[sonic sage]

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[lavish prairie]

Why does this think I'm using the new input system? When I'm not

[chrome walrus]

Are you sure you did not install it? Check your packagemanager

[lavish prairie]

probably something to do with updating AR Foundation.. but there's no package showing

[chrome walrus]

did you check your package json, just to be sure there is no dead entry lying around or so 😄

[stoic wolf]

what action do i subscribe to if i want to call a function on press and hold?

w press   ---  foo()
          ---  foo()
          ---  foo()
          ---  foo()
w release ---

[chrome walrus]

Old or new input?

[stoic wolf]

new input

[chrome walrus]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/manual/Interactions.html#hold

[lavish prairie]

nothing in there

[chrome walrus]

Weird. Maybe clean up the project, library folder and reimport after backing up. But I would google, never heard of that happening. 😄 What happens ify ou switch to Input system package in your active input thing?

Does it call you to install the package? Maybe just do that and remove it

[grand obsidian]

Hello, I wanted to see how good the new input system works for touch controls. It is working fine when i swipe left or right, but when i swipe it top/down it is kind of acting wobbly. Can't get my hands on what exactly is this issue. Thought would get my answer here.

this is the code i used for the movement.

    [SerializeField] InputAction mousePos;
    [SerializeField] float speed = 1;

    void OnEnable()
    {
        mousePos.Enable();
    }

    void OnDisable()
    {
        mousePos.Disable();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float xValue = mousePos.ReadValue<Vector2>().x;
        float yValue = mousePos.ReadValue<Vector2>().y;
        transform.position = new Vector3(xValue * Time.deltaTime * speed + transform.position.x, transform.position.y, yValue * Time.deltaTime * speed + transform.position.z);
    }```

and the mouse values i am using.

[austere grotto]

generally you should not multiply mouse-delta-style inputs by deltaTime

since they're already framerate independent by their nature

[grand obsidian]

alright, removed delta.time, but its not the one causing the issue.

[nova quartz]

im trying to create a local multiplayer on one kwyboard
keyboard

i gave one object the first action map and another object the otherone but nothing is moving

[azure hearth]

you should probably use different Input Actions

instead of different mappings

[nova quartz]

so have 1 action map with both actions

like this

[austere grotto]

gave them the maps how?

you'd have to show your code and, if you are using the PlayerInput component, the way you set that up.

[nova quartz]

ok

wait

in this case this is the player one object and i only put in callback functions under its own event mapping

and leaving the event maping in the other mapping blank

[austere grotto]

ok and what are you doing in the code

[nova quartz]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public CharacterController2D controller;

    public float runSpeed = 40f;
    float horizontalMove = 0f;
    private bool isJump = false;
    private Vector2 Movment = Vector2.zero;
    public GameObject bulletPrefab;

    public Transform firePoint;

    public float bulletForce = 20f;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }


    public void OnMove(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        Movment = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    }

    public void onJump(InputAction.CallbackContext context) 
    {
        isJump = context.action.triggered;
    }

    public void onShoot(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.action.triggered)
        {
           Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation);
            
            
           
        }
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        horizontalMove = Movment.x * runSpeed;

        
    }
    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        controller.Move(horizontalMove * Time.fixedDeltaTime, false, isJump);

    }
}

and the CharacterController2D is brackeys charecter controler

btw evrything worked when i intianly set it up for controler and keyboard

[austere grotto]

add debug.log - make sure OnMove is being called

also using PlayerInput this way is super weird

probably broken because you're trying to use the same device for multiple players

PlayerInput component expects itself to have exclusive access to a single device

[nova quartz]

i see

so how would i do split keyboard

@austere grotto

[zinc ember]

Hiya, I've spent ages scouring the web and every time I find a forum where my question is asked there's 0 replies. I've been learning to use Unity's new input system and have been making it so my game can run mouse/keyboard, gamepad, and mobile, for mobile, my joystick controls the character's movement and swiping the screen rotates the third-person camera. The issue I'm having is that anywhere you touch on the screen counts as swipe input, so moving the joystick will also rotate the camera. I've tried using a canvas group to block raycasts but this doesn't seem to affect touchscreen input. Is there a way with the new system to either block touch input or designate a specific area of the screen to allow it?

[austere grotto]

do the swipe input via the event system rather than just reading touch input directly

[zinc ember]

So the new input system doesn't have a way to do it?

[austere grotto]

do what

input system just reads device input

it doesn't know or care about what's happening on screen or in game

that's why would want to do this at the eventsystem level

[zinc ember]

I see, thanks for confirming that

[chrome walrus]

you should be using Time.deltaTime to lerp your position, not just set it, because that will just give you jittery movement

[grand obsidian]

You mean multiply the x and y values with deltatime?

[chrome walrus]

you are setting your position to Time.deltaTime, which will vary on every frame, cause its the time between frames. So this can be any floating value. You use time.deltatime to have a frame independent value to lerp your position from current to the new position with your speed * Time.deltaTime.

[grand obsidian]

ah, nvm i actually removed delta time. PreatorBlue mentioned the same thing. That wasn't the issue as i mentioned above.

[chrome walrus]

So its still jittery without deltatime?

[grand obsidian]

yup

[chrome walrus]

Can you paste your code again as its now?

[grand obsidian]

    [SerializeField] InputAction mousePos;
    [SerializeField] float speed = 1;

    void OnEnable()
    {
        mousePos.Enable();
    }

    void OnDisable()
    {
        mousePos.Disable();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float xValue = mousePos.ReadValue<Vector2>().x;
        float yValue = mousePos.ReadValue<Vector2>().y;
        transform.position = new Vector3(xValue * speed + transform.position.x, transform.position.y, yValue * speed + transform.position.z);
    }```

[zinc ember]

Hey, I've been up all morning trying to figure out how to get the touch joystick AND having swipe as a way to rotate the camera working and I've found a scuffed workaround after being completely unable to achieve something that works how I want. Instead I've told the game to ignore inputs in dead zones. The problem at the moment is only the first finger that touches the phone can rotate the camera, and if it touches a dead zone it won't initially rotate the camera, but when a second finger is put down outside of a dead zone, the first one now controls the camera.
Anyone know what I can do to let any number of fingers be eligible for the input, and how to tell it to completely ignore all input from swipes that start in dead zones?

[tame oracle]

i made a first person core project then when i added player input component to an object, the movement stop working completely , is it becuse theres 2 player inputs?

it was

[stiff silo]

Im a little confused by the examples Ive found for the new input systemn

[spark spire]

Hey guys, is it possible to simulate clicks for testing UI or 3d object picking in unity?

Is there any link to achieve this?

[austere grotto]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputTestFixture.html

[amber wigeon]

does it make controller left stick have 1 and 0 variables?

i want to make thumbstick have only 1, 0, -1 values so it doesnt make player move slower when thumbstick isn't pulled fully

[austere grotto]

Give the action a Normalize processor

[amber wigeon]

ok

[amber wigeon]

where

i dont see it

in the move field or xbox controller field?

[austere grotto]

The action

Move is the action

you can also do it on the xbox binding if you want

either one

[amber wigeon]

hi! i have made player movement with new unity input system and when i pull thumbstick left and right, it works normal, but when i move it to upper left or any thumbstick corner it makes player slow down. does anyone know how to make move script ignore Y axis and only operate with X axis? move script: rb.velocity = new Vector2(horizontal * speed, rb.velocity.y);

oh wait

i edited video wrong

wait guys

done

[amber wigeon]

you see? player slows down when i pull thumbstick slightly down or up while still having it on left or right

[ruby needle]

any ideas why when I first use wsad, arrows wont work. When I use arrows first then wsad wont work? It doesn't print the inputVector

[austere grotto]

why 3D vector?

Also where and how are you calling GetMovementVector?

[ruby needle]

It's for a XZ plane camera movement that's why 3d vector

[austere grotto]

you're still only reading two axes

all you have to do is swizzle them to x/z

not use 3D vector

it's a 2D input

[austere grotto]

where is this running?

[ruby needle]

in my camera controller script

[austere grotto]

show the code

[ruby needle]

you are right about 2d input yeah

[austere grotto]

since this is in Update it will run every frame

no matter what is happening with the input

so you should get a log output every frame

[ruby needle]

I am yeah

but why arrows wont work when I first press wasd or vice versa, that's what I didn't understand

[austere grotto]

show how the action is configured?

[ruby needle]

I did above

[austere grotto]

No you showed the bindings

not the action itself

[ruby needle]

its my first time using the new inputs so I am not sure what the actions are

[austere grotto]

"Movement" is the action

click that

"WSAD" and "Arrow Keys" are the bindings

[austere grotto]

what happens if you turn off Digital normalized

does it change anything

[ruby needle]

No changes I've tried all 3 options

sec

yeah same

setting it to 2d vector fixed the problem but I wonder why it didn't work on 3d

[ruby needle]

How can I return 1 when I press q and return -1 when I press e? Created an action with action type: value and control type: integer but they both return 1

do I need vector2 again?

[austere grotto]

Action Type: Value
Control Type: Axis

and create a 1D axis composite

[thorny epoch]

i beg for assistance

[old matrix]

How do I get the current active input asset? I want to get the bindings to show keys to the player in dialogue

[chrome walrus]

Just posting a video wont make anyone trying to help tbh

[chrome walrus]

Checkout the example scene from the package "In-Game Hints"

[old matrix]

what registry is that in? I cant find it

[chrome walrus]

Your input system package, in package manager

[old matrix]

oh i forgot the samples tab existed my bad

[plain carbon]

Hey thought I’d share this here
https://twitter.com/prvncher/status/1620516968037244929?s=20&t=_C88z-9u8fVsOVFkvm3p9g

Eric Provencher (@prvncher)

Pro tip if you're using XR with the new Unity input system, Input System 1.5 adds a new hotpath that super optimizes input reads. You just have to make this call once in your code.

"InputSystem.settings.SetInternalFeatureFlag("USE_OPTIMIZED_CONTROLS", true);"

Twitter · Jan 31, 2023, 8:18 PM

[thorny epoch]

I felt like it was easier to explain that way

[quiet tusk]

Alright who has the best tutorial on the new input system. I want to switch over to the dark side.

[quiet tusk]

So If I select Button North Gamepad as a binding and I don't specifically add Y-Xbox controller binding, will the xbox controller not work ?

[thick bay]

Just starting with this new input system and I don’t see how to do this:
I have an InputActionAsset in which I'm trying to create a composite Action for “CameraControl”, the value I want to get out is a 2D vector.
I’ve got it working fine with WASD and the 4 arrow keys, but I also wanted to give the user the option to use the mouse scroll-wheel for forwards/backwards, and just do left/right using keys.

Things I’ve tried:
The controls it allows me to select for each of the composite binding elements are ONLY buttons, it won’t let me select the mouse scroll wheel. (Which makes sense- it’s looking for a single bit for each of the elements; UP and DOWN)
It also won’t me select the scroll wheel when it’s NOT a composite binding (which also makes sense as in this case it’s looking for a 2-d input, not the axis input the scroll wheel provides)
I’ve been able to create 1-D (axis) ACTION that allow me to select the mouse scroll wheel as the control- but it doesn’t look like I can make THAT action, provide input to uh.. “some” of my CameraControl action’s bindings.

How can I implement this?

[thick bay]

^ solved: solution- TYPE in the path to the mouse scroll wheel

[quiet tusk]

Problem:
I'm assigning context.ReadValue<Vector2>().x to a global _horizontalMovement variable
I use a teleport ability that resets _horizontalMovement back to 0 and the controls are locked until the player stops teleporting.
The input system doesn't detect any changes from the controller because its still on -1 or 1 (which the player should start moving after teleport is over)
How do I force an update to the Movement action so it continues to read that the player has the joystick in a movement position?

The only way to regain movement is to move the joystick from whatever position it was at before teleport started which is horrible player experience.

[quiet tusk]

I figured out to loop through the player input's actions array looking for my movement event name and force update my player's _horizontalMovement to that of the ReadValue and it works.

[crystal narwhal]

what is the best approach to have some button in my canvas to simulate inputs, is the best solution to implement my android controller?

[polar timber]

whats the difference between tap and press

[swift spade]

How do you switch back to the old input system ?

[quiet tusk]

remove the package , change your player settings to old input system which is under configuration > Active Input Handling, then change your code back to the old ways.

[quiet tusk]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/manual/Interactions.html#tap
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/manual/Interactions.html#press

[narrow seal]

when my player dies they get deactivated which also deactivates the player input and prevents me from pausing the game

also the player is a prefab so i cant just separate the input into another object

[quiet tusk]

Make a second action map that deals with the UI ? Add that to a different object ?

[narrow seal]

ive tried that but it doesnt work

it disables the inputs on the other player input controller

is that not intentional?

[quiet tusk]

No that's right. It is still on the same .inputactions asset. Maybe create another .inputactions asset that is for UI ? If not that, try a different route of achieving what you want and not setting your player's object to disabled?

[narrow seal]

making another input action doesnt work either

[narrow seal]

i kinda have to i cant really work around it

[quiet tusk]

If you make another input actions asset and you dont disable that object, it should still work. The one attached to your player object would become inactive

[quiet tusk]

I beg to differ on this. There is always a way.

[narrow seal]

that would be a really nice solution but it doesnt work, for some reason the second player input takes priority over the input thats on the player

so you cant move as long as the other player input is active

ig i could try disabling it while the other player input is active

that seems extremely unnecessary why cant 2 player inputs just work at the same time

[quiet tusk]

Well I got it working on mine just now

[narrow seal]

you have multiple player inputs in the same scene??

[narrow seal]

how do you have your inputs set up?

im just using sendmessages and not doing anything with generate c# class

[quiet tusk]

my behavior is Invoke Unity Events. I find it a lot easier. But that shouldn't have anything to do with the object being active or not

[narrow seal]

is this a bug?

i dont believe i cant use multiple player inputs in the scene

[quiet tusk]

Honestly I can't tell what you are really doing since I cant see your hierarchy

[narrow seal]

i have a player input on the pause menu gameobject

then im spawning a player as a prefab and they have another player input on them

[quiet tusk]

And you have assigned different inputactions asset to them both?

[narrow seal]

ive tried different inputactions and different maps

the one on the pause menu always takes priority and just prevents the other one from working

the other player input just doesnt read any inputs

how did you manage to get yours to work?

[quiet tusk]

Do you see this when running 2 in the scene ?

[narrow seal]

no im not using input system ui at all

do i need to?

[quiet tusk]

After I disabled my character, I pressed the start button on my gamepad and that is what's firing, which is firing from the UIInput object

[narrow seal]

my player is instantiated so ill try assigning the UI module with code

[quiet tusk]

My question is though, Why cant you just lock the player ability controls and hide the model from the view during game pause ? Instead of SetActive(false)

[narrow seal]

the player has a lot of stuff on him and just due to the nature of how my game works i need to keep the player on the scene

it doesnt work

it seems like once a player input is in the scene it takes priority over anything even after its been disabled

im just gonna try some weird janky workaround

ok well now i have another problem

im trying to switch to unity events

but this doesnt show up on the list?

is it because of the inputvalue

[quiet tusk]

public void FirePaintGun(InputAction.CallbackContext context)

expand events > player and assign via script

for move you would do

public void Movement(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (GetControlsLock()) return;
        PlayerController.Instance.MovePlayer(context.ReadValue<Vector2>().x);
    }

[narrow seal]

ah

thank you

my janky solution kinda works now but i just have one more problem

is there a way to assign functions to an event at runtime

[quiet tusk]

not sure on that one but I feel like the functions you need to subscribe to should also live on the prefab if it has to do with the player

[narrow seal]

i made an empty gameobject and placed it in the player prefab and told it to basically disconnect itself from the prefab when it spawns

[quiet tusk]

I use a PlayerInputManager class that deals with all the events, then i just dispatch out where i need to go

[narrow seal]

so all i have to do now is assign stuff like pausing to it

[narrow seal]

huh

how does that work

[quiet tusk]

Also I feel like you could've nested your player object in a container object and have the input component on the container if you were going be deactivating your player itself so then the input system still works. But I don't have a clue exactly what you are doing.

[narrow seal]

basically the player spawns with a controller object and that object loses its parent when spawned

so it remains in the scene

[quiet tusk]

I do something like this. All my player abilities have their own script and a single instance of them that live on the player object so I can always call on them when needed via their instance. This also will allow to swap out abilities to buttons using player prefs or something.
https://pastebin.com/S5dTWHnD
So on the Player Input component I only ever add the PlayerInputManager script to reference

[narrow seal]

how does input manager work?

ive tried using it but theres almost no documentation about it

[quiet tusk]

No lol, thats a custom script I created

[narrow seal]

oh

i thought you were talking about the player input manager component lol

[unborn hemlock]

Hello can you help me in my code because i'm making game like flappy bird and my sprite (player) don't fall down and don't move up when space pressed

pls help me FAST!

its my school project

@everyone

[tame oracle]

For some reason, setting VSync to the highest level under Quality completely eliminated input lag. Why is it like this?

Setting it to 1 or 0 causes a relatively huge (around 500 milliseconds) of delay even though the game is running at 60fps

[quiet tusk]

its Update, not update. Also input.touch, if in the editor, only works when you have simulator window as your game window. Also, no need in multiplying by delta twice before assigning direction

[minor current]

I'm using the new unity input system and Im trying to create a local multiplayer but when referencing the PlayerInput through the script it uses the same one for every charcter so when I jump all the players jump is their a way to change this?

[austere grotto]

You should be using PlayerInputManager which will create a separate PlayerInput (and player prefab) for each player

[minor current]

I did but when assigning this in script it controls all the players playerControls = new PlayerInputActions();

[austere grotto]

Because you're not using PlayerInput if you're doing that

You are using your generated C# class

Use PlayerInput instead

[austere grotto]

Read this: https://docs.unity.cn/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.4/manual/Components.html

[minor current]

if I use playerinput instead how would i go about assigning things through a script than like this line for example playerControls.Player.Jump.triggered?

[austere grotto]

By reading the article

[minor current]

quickly before I read It will this allow me to use if statements or will it all have to be done through events?

[swift wagon]

How would I go about using 2 joycons as a single controller in unity

[dry token]

my functions aren't being called when I press the keys related to each action, any idea why?

[zinc stump]

Looks like it should be working at glance. Checkout Code Monkey video on new Input System. Might find what you are missing.

[dry token]

yeah I did exactly the same steps as I did in my other project and it works there

could it have something to do with the player being a prefab

[zinc stump]

I didn't have problems trying this approach from just following the video. It's when instantiating class you get additional gotchas of having it enabled properly.

[dry token]

right

I'll check it out

[dry token]

I... did the exact same things 🥲

[dry token]

I found out the issue is with the control scheme thingy

it was an oversight on my part

[ruby needle]

do we really need to use update in order to check if user holding a button in new input system? like to check if holding shift then sprint. Not talking about the hold .5 sec to fire an event

[austere grotto]

Update is one option.
Event based handling is another

[ruby needle]

How do you do it with events? I subscribed both performed and cancelled. Created a bool to check if holding and set true if performed, set false if cancelled in update

[austere grotto]

Yep by subscribing to performed and canceled and setting a bool

[ruby needle]

still we have to use update then

[austere grotto]

If you want to do something every frame you have to use update. This is unrelated to the input system

But what are you actually doing in Update

[ruby needle]

placing tiles while holding left button

[unborn hemlock]

hello i have next problem

i dont see pipes

[austere grotto]

Is there a reason you expect to see pipes?
What are pipes in this context?
What do pipes have to do with #🖱️┃input-system

[unborn hemlock]

but where can i have help on this server

idk

[dry token]

to add onto the question earlier, how does holding one button continuously work, is there not an option when setting the action in the input manager? do I have to do it with a subscription and a book or can it be done from the inspector too

[austere grotto]

You either use events for start/cancel or you poll it in Update

[dry token]

ah could I use smth like button pressing down/release for start/cancel? @austere grotto

[thick bay]

Working on converting my project to use the input system. I have the UI stuff on Canvas working fine. But I also have a custom map upon which I use the mouse-posiiton to determine which “map-tile” the mouse is over- this is custom code, not event based, (though it does generate its own events).
I have the following code in that MouseOverMapTile monobehavior:

    InputAction moseOverAction => inputActions.FindAction("MouseOver");
    InputAction selectAction => inputActions.FindAction("Select");
    Vector2 mousePos => moseOverAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();

    HexIndex2D previousMouseOver;
    HexIndex2D mouseDownOver;

    void Update()
    {
        Debug.Log("mousePos: " + mousePos);
         …stuff…
     }

In the inspector I dragged my configured InputActionAsset (see pic) onto the public field above. The problem is that the debug log output ALWAYS show the mouse position as (0,0)- no mater where I move the mouse.
What am I doing wrong?

[versed venture]

I'm trying to add playercontrols for ps4 controller for a 2D-project with this piece of code:

float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
            float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
            transform.Translate(new Vector3(moveHorizontal, moveVertical, 0) * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

I'm still using the old input manager and for a reason, my vertical movement doesn't work. only horizontal. If I'm setting the y-axis to x-axis for "Vertical", then it moves both right and up (but not directly up.)

Could someone help me with it? Idk what could be the problem

[thick bay]

nevermind found the answer (god I'm awful at searching- sorry): solution: inputActions.FindActionMap("TacticalMapActions").Enable();

[thick bay]

for 2D on the XY plane this look ok. But if your 2d plane is XZ, then you'd probably want to feed moveVertical into the Z coordinate of the Vector3. Which plane are you using?

[versed venture]

I'm using x and y

[thick bay]

hmmm, then it LOOKs ok to me.. what do you mean by " If I'm setting the y-axis to x-axis for "Vertical", then it moves both right and up (but not directly up.)" was that just a test?

also what do you get if you Debug.Log(" horiz: " + moveHorizontal ); does it ever have a non-zero value?

[versed venture]

I mean this

if I set the axis from Vertical to X-axis instead of Y-axis, then it moves both to x and y axis

simply said, if vertical is y-axis, then the player only moves like the left side of the drawing.
If the vertical is x-axis, then the player moves like on the right side of the drawing.

It seems like it doesn't repond when it's set to y axis

[thick bay]

ok, THAT makes sense: the diagonal direction is simply due to the fact that your using the same value for the X and Y components of the Vector3 you use in translate. What do you get for the Debug.log, I suggested above (when vertical is set to you Y-axis).

afk fam

[versed venture]

hold on

(the problem is in the vertical axis, so I changed it for horizon: to vertical:)
I only get the 0 value. It seems to not respond on the y axis.

[thick bay]

hmmm, lets confirm it's not a hardware issue. Add some keyboard inputs for vertical (one for positive, one for negative) and see if THOSE give non-zero output in the debug log. If they DO, I'd start to wonder if there is a problem with the controller.

[versed venture]

Keyboard controls give a normal reaction

with a normal debug.log

[thick bay]

Can you test that controller some other way? does it work when playing (not-your) games?

[versed venture]

yeah, I play other games with it too. it reacts normal

[thick bay]

hmmm, I don't have any other ideas other than the sanity-check of testing this on a new project.

(to confirm nothing else in the project is messing this up ... somehow)

[versed venture]

Hmm, I'll test it.

[thick bay]

oh! doubt this is it.. but do you have the same "dead" value for vertical and horiz (in input manager)

[versed venture]

yeah, everything is the same

0.19 deadvalue

[thick bay]

ok, was a shot in the dark. Could TRY setting it to zero, but doubt that'll do it.

[versed venture]

no, doesn't work indeed

thnx for your help. I'll try later with another controller. If that still doesn't work, then I'll change it to the new input system

[thick bay]

sure thing, sorry we had no luck 😦

lemme know how it goes, pls

[versed venture]

ah, you did everything you could. It's prob smt with my settings or controller

[versed venture]

alr. have a good day!

[tiny ivy]

Quick Question, what is CallbackContext duration supposed to represent, I thought that it represented the time between performed and cancel, but it seems to always be 0? Am I not including some setting to have it keep track of that time?

[verbal remnant]

deltaTime between start and current, e.g. duration a button was held down (given the control is a hold type action)

[tiny ivy]

There is little documentation on that, i generally expected it to be the time between start pressing and cancelling which is very useful.

[verbal remnant]

Make sure your action is not a momentary one if you expect the value to be non-zero

[dry token]

any idea why MoveLeft gets called twice whenever I press the button?

MoveRight behaves just fine

NVM

[fierce turret]

I can't understand why it doesn't work. It worked, but when I something changed it stopped working((. I can't find it

[austere grotto]

What is "it" that does not work?
What are you expecting to happen?
What is happening instead?

[fierce turret]

I want to make something like this:

1. When I Enter my cursor to UI Object it a little bit opens
2. When I Exit my cursor from UI Object it closes

I wrote a code and it worked. However, I changed something. And I can't find it for 2 hours

[lavish nacelle]

does anyone know why im not given the option to select 2d axis for the type

[zinc stump]

It's only for Value action types

[lavish nacelle]

ah so movement will be value rather than button right?

[zinc stump]

yes

[lavish nacelle]

alright thanks a lot

[regal osprey]

hi there
does anybody know how to handle multiple action maps with player input at one?
Specifically, I have an action map for controlling the camera from an isometric perspective and one action map for doing so with a drone type perspective (free roam)
both are driven through one playerinput instance, which gets its action map changed depending on the mode the camera is in
now. how do I handle global actions with playerinput (like pausing the game) without having to add the action to all action maps?

[austere grotto]

Create a third action map

leave that one always enabled

[regal osprey]

Id have to enable it manually somewhere right?

[austere grotto]

don't use SwitchCurrentActionMap, you can control the maps individually as you wish

through myPlayerInput.actions.GetActionMap("actionMapName")

[regal osprey]

should that work well with control schemes? I'm trying to differentiate between MKB and controllers

[strange bison]

Hi guys, I am loading my InputActionAsset into my InteractionSystem through Resources.Load - This of course allows the InputActions in the project to be dragged into any inspector fields.
I also want to enable the use of code to access those same InputActions, for example: InteractionSystem.PCGamepad.heldItem.primaryAction
However, it seems to be impossible to have the code reference the same InputActionAsset as the one loaded through Resources.Load, because PCGamepad myPCGamepadInputActionAsset = new(); Creates a new instance of the InputActionAsset in memory
and myPCGamepadInputActionAsset.asset = theResourcesLoadedOne; is not possible because .asset is read-only.

My Interaction system is managing the enabled state of all the maps throughout the state of the game.

Does this mean that if I intend to support both editor drag and drop and code access to InputActions, I need to hold two InputActionAssets in memory and keep them both in sync inside my InteractionSystem?
Is there any way to create a code accessor (InteractionSystem.PCGamepad.heldItem.primaryAction) to the asset loaded by Resources.Load?

[odd steppe]

How do i add new things or edit existing ones in input system

[austere grotto]

what kind of "things"?

[odd steppe]

Dash under shift, jump to W

@austere grotto

[austere grotto]

that's just creating basic input actions with bindings

Start here https://learn.unity.com/project/using-the-input-system-in-unity

[odd steppe]

Yeah but i saw that there is already some basic inputs

like "jump"

how do i access them

[austere grotto]

That's only in the old input system

[odd steppe]

oh

really?

[austere grotto]

And you just set those up through Edit -> Project Settings -> Input Manager

[odd steppe]

thank you

which one do you recommend more?

[austere grotto]

if you're a beginner stick with the old one for now

[odd steppe]

Why?

[austere grotto]

it's simpler

[strange bison]

Any thoughts on my question? Many thanks if you can help

[austere grotto]

I'm not sure I understand this line:

myPCGamepadInputActionAsset.asset = theResourcesLoadedOne;```

I thought myPCGamepadInputActionAsset is already an InputActionAsset

why does it have a .asset field

oh it's the autogenerated class right? That's a bit different from the InputActionsAsset you're loading from Resources.Load

it's a wrapper

[strange bison]

It's not an IAA, it's the c# class generated by one

[austere grotto]

But I'm not sure I see why you would want to use the loaded one if you're using the autogenerated one

[strange bison]

Yeah the wrapper

Because the resources.Load one is the one I can drag references to into inspectors

I understand that if I load that into my interaction system and start enabling and disabling maps, the asset in the generated c# isn't the same thing, therefor the management of maps is out of sync between the two

[austere grotto]

Yeah I'm not sure you'll get away with mixing and matching like this

Also look into InputActionReference if you haven't

[strange bison]

Yeah I've used that a lot in places. I wish I could do some kind of input action asset reference.

Shame it's one way of working or the other, not both raw code and inspector references.

[austere grotto]

you can just drag and drop an entire InputActionAsset as well

but no you won't get the wrapper like that

I'm actually kinda curious

is there a constructor for the wrapper that takes an asset?

[strange bison]

Yeah :/ I guess my only solution to support both is have the interaction system hold on to them both and keep them in sync.

Sadly not

The generated code makes it all readonly in a partial class, I even tried writing my own supporting partial that would allow it, but no luck.

[slim tusk]

i just hopped in Unity, is using the input system good on performance when it goes into multiplayer networks?

[austere grotto]

what do "multiplayer networks" and input system performance have to do with one another?
(nothing)

[slim tusk]

sorry, i meant if the input system does not have problems when it comes to multiplayer games

[austere grotto]

what kind of problems

performance is not a problem in general, no

[slim tusk]

im trying to learn the engine and im seeing stuff that i havent seen like 6 years ago

[strange bison]

Here's a mad one, anyone know where the code is that generates the C# classes for the InputActionAssets?

• I want to add my own custom public constructors

[fallen wasp]

How can I ReadValue<float> from a button type action?

[strange bison]

I'm guessing you want context.ReadValueAsButton() == true ? 1.0f : 0.0f; ?

[fallen wasp]

Yes! Thanks

[fallen wasp]

Doesn't seem to work

No option for ...AsButton

only AsObject

[strange bison]

one sec...

[fallen wasp]

Can I do ReadValue<bool>() ? 1 : 0;?

[strange bison]

mayyyybe I think that's an odd one and is why ReadValueAsButton exists
What is your HandBrake type?
Here my context is an InputAction

[fallen wasp]

2020.3.29f1 (Input System v1.3.0)

[strange bison]

In full for my example (It's a debug UI showing the values of various InputActions

[fallen wasp]

Thank you. I will try reading the value as a float

[strange bison]

I'm running 1.4.4

[fallen wasp]

Might be why. Anyway ReadValue<bool>() didn't work

ReadValue<float> worked though

0 if not pressed, 1 if pressed

Thank you for sharing your script

[strange bison]

Brill 🙂 no worries, glad it helped