🖱️┃input-system

[summer marten]

Hi, I'm currently implementing rebinding and want to implement a whitelist for a specified range of keys that are allowed. I am wondering, if there is a way for me to get the "generic" alias of an InputControl?
For example, when I try to rebind to "Start" on my Xbox Gamepad, I receive an InputControl with the path /XInputControllerWindows/start. However I want the generic version, so /Gamepad/start. In the InputAction editor window I found a list of "Derived Bindings" next to the path, which seems like exactly what I want. I attached a screenshot.
I could also only check against "inputControl.name" instead of "path", since it always seems to be "start". However I'm not sure if there are exceptions for other controllers, where the name is not always identical. But I suppose I'm just checking for inputControl.name instead of inputControl.path is the way to go? Thanks!

Edit: .name doesn't cut it, because of composite controls like /device/dpad/left only returning left. I think i need to cut off the first part: private static string GetGenericControlPath(InputControl c) => c.path[c.path.IndexOf('/', 1)..];

[limber sky]

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knew if their was a way to use a VIVE Controller standalone (without the HMD or any VR for that matter) with the new input system?

I am working on an experiment where we need to take user inputs across a 2D axis, the solution we thought of was to use the VIVE controllers touch pad (since its portable). However I cannot seem to find anything online regarding how to set this up without the headset?

(To be clear, I do not care about the motion tracking of the controller, just the touch pad and potentially the triggers)

[simple scarab]

Where does the input system cache the per user bindings of input actions? I added some inputs that work completely fine in editor, but when I make a build only the actions that were originally present seem to have bindings.

ah, turns out "use in control scheme" wasn't set -_-

ngl, sometimes this package feels really trashy. Why does it work without a control scheme set in editor but not in build? Why do I have to manually enable action maps in builds, but not in editor? If there's going to be issues then I'd rather not have to make a build to experience them

[simple scarab]

nvm, still broken??

[thorn falcon]

Are there any widely known naming conventions for these things? Like PascalCase vs camelCase vs snake_case and so on

[verbal remnant]

PascalCase would make the most sense in a unity context.

[simple scarab]

Anybody have any idea what my issue might be? Changing actions that existed in the default works fine, but any actions I added myself work in editor only 😭

I made sure they have the right control scheme and action map

[jade violet]

Hi I am making a VR game and I am using XR toolkit and I want to make it so that when the user points to an object and clicks the A button, some text will show up but I have no idea how to do it and I couldnt figure it out

[simple scarab]

I tried exporting to json and I can clearly see them being defined there. There's absolutely no difference between the working and not working input actions :|
EDIT: Just realized it's due to reading the controls in fixed update but using them in Update 😔 Turns out it was my fault all along

[faint quarry]

Hi, does anyone know how I can keep the input system from differentiating between different languages for the keyboard? I have some code that prevents duplicate bindings but it does not manage to cope with that. Like my default for dash is shift but since I am on a german Pc, when i bind something else to my shift button it takes the german name "umschalt" and it apparently allows it because it is not the same by name. Also its kinda strange when everything is in english and suddenly german keybindings appear 😅

[whole bridge]

Hello! I'm having a problem with the new unity input systen package. I've recently imported Mirror into my project and I'm currently converting my code over. I'm using the unity standard assets for my FPS controller. Would having the PlayerInput component be initialized after runtime has started cause problems with it detecting input?

I have two PlayerInput components one for player movement and another to handle other inputs for a 'gun'. The one that is initalized when runtime starts works without any issues, but the one that initializes after runtime starts seems to be trying to get input from the controller that does not exisit instead of picking up the input from the mouse and key board. Everything works just fine with a controller.

This is from the object that is initialized during runtime.

This is the object that is already in the scene when runtime starts.

Thank you for any help!

[whole bridge]

Well I finally found a solution.

[austere grotto]

Yes this is a problem. It needs to be one PlayerInput per human

[summer marten]

What returns "Umschalt"? InputControl.path is not translated. Are you using ctx.control.displayName or something of this sort?

I also recently implemented removing duplicates during rebinding like this

InputBinding myBinding = GetBinding().binding;

foreach (var action in checkIn.SelectMany(map => map.actions))
{
    for (int i = 0; i < action.bindings.Count; i++)
    {
        InputBinding binding = action.bindings[i];
        if (binding.id == myBinding.id) continue;
        if (binding.effectivePath == myBinding.effectivePath)
        {
            // button was already bound! Remove it!
            ConLog.Debug("Removing duplicated binding: " + binding.effectivePath, this);

            action.ApplyBindingOverride(i, "");
        }
    }
}``` maybe it helps

[faint quarry]

I am using effectivePath to compare. I just realized there was a difference after debugging that shift is both shifts and "umschalt" is left shift thats why it was allowed as a duplicate. Now I just want to make the display name not layout sensitive. It should show left shift and not "umschalt"

yeah I implemented it in a similar way

[silk ibex]

Trying to create a 3D game that operates like a 2D game (much like overcooked! and plateup!

the way my character moves right now is fine, however when I stop moving the character automatically rotates back to facing north.

how can I make it keep it's current rotation when the player stops their input?

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    private Vector2 move;
    public void OnMove(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        move = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        movePlayer();
    }

    public void movePlayer()
    {
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(move.x, 0f, move.y);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(movement), 0.05f);

        transform.Translate(movement * speed * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
    }
}

[austere grotto]

Just don't run the rotation code if there's no directional input

[silk ibex]

there is directional input, but i already managed to fix my issue

[austere grotto]

There's no directional input when the player stops their input, as you said in the question

[silk ibex]

oh sorry i misread what you meant

i thought you were saying i HAD no directional input

[abstract wave]

Is it better to use the old input system or the new one u can add through package manager ?(i am just a beginner)

[fleet garnet]

Usually package manager. Though I personally would recommend the rewired package because it does a really good job at handling inputs

[abstract wave]

Oh whats that and how would u recommend to learn all this stuff
Rn i watch tutorials from yt
And yesterday i saw some script about parallax effect fucked my brain

I am pretty comfortable with the old system which used getkey and input.getaxis
The video i saw with the new input system used unity events and did some callback stuff I didn’t understand that

[fleet garnet]

Watch a tutorial or a getting started guide for the basics, read the documentation for other stuff.

[verbal remnant]

Old is worse in all cases. You can use the new system the same way as you could the old. The old system is entirely obsolete.

[spare frigate]

Is there a way to treat scrollwheel as a button? I want to allow players to change weapons with using scrollwheel UP/DOWN, but I also want to allow them to rebind that button later if they want to, but Unity treats the scrollwheel as a Vector2 delta AFAIK, so it wont get listed if the type of button, switching the type to something else will show the scroll delta but then wont allow buttons to be bound to it, is the only alternative to poll the scroll change myself in Update and have some complicated workaround for converting to-and-from delta and button for rebinding?

[austere grotto]

IDK if "complicated" would correctly describe the code you'd have to write

But no you don't have to do anything in Update unless you're using the old input system

Pretty sure you can make a binding to just up or down on the scroll wheel in the new system too

[spare frigate]

Ah sorry I should have clarified, I am using the new input system, I guess "convoluted" may have been a better descriptive word, more complicated than simply using the Input Action Asset window to setup the bind, I couldnt figure out how to set something like this up through the new input system, so the first solution that comes to mind is "do it through Update" - how might I handle that binding? Would it have to be a composite?

[spare frigate]

Actually this gave me an idea, after re-reading what you said a few times and trying a few things, it seems I could make a button bind that uses positive/negative (which does list the scroll wheel delta) and use the actions context.action.GetBindingIndexForControl(context.control) to find out if it was "positive" or "negative", which I believe means the player would be binding a composite, though I think this approach may work for my usecase - thanks for the idea

[exotic spear]

I have no idea why but this HandleExitTurret function is being run twice but should only run once.
The code starts with the inputReader:

public class InputReader : ScriptableObject, GameInput.IPlayerActions, GameInput.ITurretActions, GameInput.IUIActions
{
    public InputActionMap currentActionMap;

    public event Action OnExitTurretInput = delegate { };

    void OnEnable()
    {
        if (gameInput == null)
        {
            gameInput = new GameInput();
            gameInput.Player.SetCallbacks(this);
            gameInput.Turret.SetCallbacks(this);
            gameInput.UI.SetCallbacks(this);
        }
    }
    
    private void OnDisable()
    {
        gameInput.Disable();
    }
    
    public void Enable()
    {
        SetActionMap(gameInput.Player);
    }

    private void SetActionMap(InputActionMap actionMap)
    {
        currentActionMap.Disable();
        currentActionMap = actionMap;
        currentActionMap.Enable();
    
        Debug.Log($"Current Action Map: {actionMap}");
    }
    
    public void SetPlayerActionMap()
    {
        SetActionMap(gameInput.Player);
    }
    
    public void SetTurretActionMap()
    {
        SetActionMap(gameInput.Turret);
    }

    public void OnTurret_Exit(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.performed)
            OnExitTurretInput?.Invoke();
    }

And this is the TurretInteractable:

    protected override void OnEnable()
    {
        base.OnEnable();
        Debug.Log("event should subscribe");
        if (_inputReader == null)
        {
            _inputReader = backupInput;
        }
        _inputReader.OnExitTurretInput += HandleExitTurret;
    }

    protected override void OnDisable()
    {
        base.OnDisable();
        _inputReader.OnExitTurretInput -= HandleExitTurret;
    }

    private void HandleExitTurret()
    {
        _inputReader.SetPlayerActionMap();

        _interactingPlayer.Events.SetMoveState.Invoke(MoveState.defaultState); // This is where the error occurs on the second run of the function
        _interactingPlayer.Events.SetAnimatonBool.Invoke("OnTurret", false); // The _interactingPlayer is made null after it is called the first time
        _vcam.enabled = false;
        _reticleUI.enabled = false;
        _keyPromptPopup.SetVisible(true);

        if (_currentAmmo == 0)
        {
            RefillTask.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        }

        BroadcastOwnerRpc(EMPTY_OWNER);
    }

Why is it calling twice, someone please tell me, is it just a bug?

[austere grotto]

probably multiple input phases

[exotic spear]

it's locked to the performed phase

[austere grotto]

Try this:

    public void OnTurret_Exit(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        Debug.Log($"On turret exit called with phase {context.phase}");
        OnExitTurretInput?.Invoke();
    }```

[exotic spear]

and I've tried it in the started phase

[exotic spear]

sorry I did a thing while testing to move the context to the other script through the action to try it there but gave the same results. I'll quickly fix that on the post

[exotic spear]

Sorry about the confusion this is what it was like before and still the same problem, I've been debugging and all and I still don't understand why just the event is running twice because any old debug logs I added ran the right amount of times

    public void OnTurret_Exit(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.performed)
            OnExitTurret();
    }```

This is what I'm talking about

    public void OnTurret_Exit(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.performed)
            OnExitTurret();
    }

    void OnExitTurret()
    {
        Debug.Log("Run Once");
        OnExitTurretInput?.Invoke();
    }```

```c#
 private void HandleExitTurret()
 {
     Debug.Log("Handle Exit Turret");
     _inputReader.SetPlayerActionMap();

     _interactingPlayer.Events.SetMoveState.Invoke(MoveState.defaultState); // This is where the error occurs on the second run of the function
     _interactingPlayer.Events.SetAnimatonBool.Invoke("OnTurret", false); // The _interactingPlayer is made null after it is called the first time
     _vcam.enabled = false;
     _reticleUI.enabled = false;
     _keyPromptPopup.SetVisible(true);

     if (_currentAmmo == 0)
     {
         RefillTask.gameObject.SetActive(true);
     }

     BroadcastOwnerRpc(EMPTY_OWNER);
 }```

[austere grotto]

Well two more things you should do:

1. Print the instance ID of your script as well
   2.Show how you set up your input action

[austere grotto]

if OnExitTurret is only running once and the handler is running twice, that implies you are likely subscribing your handler function twice

[austere grotto]

perhaps line 60 is running twice

[exotic spear]

it's in the OnEnable function

[exotic spear]

how do I go about getting the instance ID

[austere grotto]

GetInstanceID()

[exotic spear]

Thanks

I'll try that out

ok so there are 2 instances running

weird

there is only a single script on each object so I don't know where this is coming from

These are the 2 scripts if you want to have a look at all

And the turrets base class

[austere grotto]

I mean - you should look at the full stack trace

of the two calls

see where it's getting called from

because it seems like the "Run Once" thing is only running once

[exotic spear]

The problem is in handle exit turret

TurretInteractable.HandleExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Interactables/TurretInteractable.cs:129)
InputReader.OnExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:146)
InputReader.OnTurret_Exit (UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction+CallbackContext context) (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:140)
UnityEngine.InputSystem.Utilities.DelegateHelpers.InvokeCallbacksSafe[TValue] (UnityEngine.InputSystem.Utilities.CallbackArray`1[System.Action`1[TValue]]& callbacks, TValue argument, System.String callbackName, System.Object context) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.7.0/InputSystem/Utilities/DelegateHelpers.cs:46)
UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0(NativeInputUpdateType, NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate(NativeInputUpdateType, IntPtr)```

UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.NativeInputRuntime/<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0 (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,intptr)

[austere grotto]

not necessarily. HandleExitTurret is getting called twice. You need to see what's calling it

[exotic spear]

These are the two errors

[austere grotto]

not the errors

just the lines that say "Handle Exit Turret"

look at those stack traces

[exotic spear]

that's what I've been trying to figure out

[austere grotto]

Yes... I'm suggesting a way to figure it out lol

[exotic spear]

Oh I get what your asking though the stack traces look identical, besides the instance ID's

[austere grotto]

what do they look like

[exotic spear]

UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
TurretInteractable:HandleExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Interactables/TurretInteractable.cs:126)
InputReader:OnExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:146)
InputReader:OnTurret_Exit (UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction/CallbackContext) (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:140)
UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.NativeInputRuntime/<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0 (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,intptr)

UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
TurretInteractable:HandleExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Interactables/TurretInteractable.cs:126)
InputReader:OnExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:146)
InputReader:OnTurret_Exit (UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction/CallbackContext) (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:140)
UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.NativeInputRuntime/<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0 (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,intptr)

[austere grotto]

ok so

Why is "Run Once" only being printed once

[exotic spear]

UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
InputReader:OnExitTurret () (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:145)
InputReader:OnTurret_Exit (UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction/CallbackContext) (at Assets/Scripts/Input/InputReader.cs:140)
UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.NativeInputRuntime/<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0 (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,intptr)```

[austere grotto]

if these are both coming from OnExitTurret

that again strongly implies a double subscription to the event

[exotic spear]

It seems to be connected to the event but it is only subscribed to in the OnEnable function

Every reference to the function is here

[austere grotto]

what's in base.OnEnable();

[exotic spear]

And this is every reference to the event

[exotic spear]

{
    _keyPromptPopup.Initialize(_keyPromptPrefix, "E", _keyPromptSuffix);
    if (_pingable != null)
    {
        _pingable.OnPing += OnPing; 
    }
}```

[austere grotto]

perhaps you're getting an error in OnDisable

so it's not unsusbscribing properly

so you end up with two subscriptions after a disable/re-enable

[exotic spear]

base

protected virtual void OnDisable()
{
    if (_pingable != null)
    {
        _pingable.OnPing -= OnPing;
    }
}```
turret```c#
protected override void OnDisable()
{
    base.OnDisable();
    _inputReader.OnExitTurretInput -= HandleExitTurret;
}```

Ok so I changed something in the prefab and it only seems to be happening once

[austere grotto]

are you subscribing to something on a prefab

[exotic spear]

no

There is only one Turret Interactable script on the whole prefab

[exotic spear]

ok So I think I've managed to fix the event part but now the _interactingPlayer is coming up as null even after I've removed all lines setting it to null, it's assigned on interact and never unassigned, yet the debugger is detecting it as null in HandleTurretExit

[austere grotto]

is it being destroyed?

Is it "real" null or "destroyed unity object" null

[exotic spear]

nope

[exotic spear]

ok so according to the debugger, _interactingPlayer is null when HandleTurretExit is called but it's not null according to the debug logs in Unity, my brain is officially fried and I'm moving on to another task

[dreamy carbon]

for some really weird reason it doesnt register when i press the left mouse button or the right mouse button but sometimes it does , its really weird , im confused on why it does that

[dreamy carbon]

and i have only one map and in the vid im showing that for some reason the mouse buttons register when i changed a thing in the input action map PlayerControls but after i stop the play mode and start again , it stops registering which is really weird

[valid dragon]

Can you record a video showing the console log, so that we see when it prints and when it doesn't?

[hasty monolith]

I'm using unity VR and I've encountered this error. Any idea's what's the issue? I'm trying to run the Meta XR Simulator

[dreamy carbon]

sorry i got busy and forgot to respond to you but here you go

not sure how to fix this

[valid dragon]

Do you have assembly reload on play disabled?

[dreamy carbon]

Where can I check?

[dreamy carbon]

its like this

[valid dragon]

Uncheck the Options and see if the issue occurs.

[dreamy carbon]

it worked but how 😭

[valid dragon]

I can't say for sure as I haven't used the input system yet, but it probably involved a static field not resetting between play mode sessions.

[dreamy carbon]

THAT MIGHT BE IT TBH

oops

caps

[valid dragon]

Disabling domain reload implies that static fields need to be reset by you manually

[dreamy carbon]

well thank god i fixed this issue lol

thank you

how can i check if im i press the left mouse button and when im not pressing the left mouse button?

[austere grotto]

Look up the docs for GetMouseButtonDown, GetMouseButtonUp, and GetMouseButton

[dreamy carbon]

I alr fixed it

[tame oracle]

public InputActionProperty leftClickAction;
    public Animator cubeAnimator;
    void Update()
    {
        bool leftClickValue = leftClickAction.action.ReadValue<bool>();
        print("Left Click Value: " + leftClickValue);
    }```
Is this proper for calling things with inputactionproperties? The value doesn't change when I left or right click (Yes I know I set it to right click by acccident in unity)

[timid dagger]

In the case of manual checking, I usually use .WasPressedThisFrame()/.WasPerformedThisFrame() (which works only once per click) or .IsPressed() (which works as long the input is pressed). However usually I register listeners to events, so I don't have to check it in Update (https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.9/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.html#events).

When it comes to actions not working, in most cases it's caused by not enabling them or their action maps. Try enabling them if you haven't done that.

[tame oracle]

Good idea I solved it by enabling them xD

Oopsies!

[dusty falcon]

how can I get the position where the player clicked or tapped on the screen?

[austere grotto]

for what purpose?

"position where the player clicked" is vague and can mean a few different things. It could be the pixel coordinates, or it could be some position in world space based on certain context, etc.

[dusty falcon]

i want to make it so that the pan is adjusted on where the player clicked with a mouse or touch screen

[austere grotto]

wdym by "the pan"?

[dusty falcon]

left-right value of sound

if it is -1 it will play the sound only in the left speaker

[austere grotto]

I have no idea what you are talking about to be honest

what do sounds have to do with a mouse click position

if what is -1?

[dusty falcon]

the 'Stereo Pan'

[austere grotto]

I guess get a world space coordinate that corresponds to your mouse position and either spawn or move an audio source there and play it. Or use AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint

[dusty falcon]

I want to know how to get the mouse position if the mouse clicked and if the screen was clicked with touch screen I would want the position of that

[austere grotto]

again it depends on the context of what you mean by mouse position

This is my preferred approach: https://unity.huh.how/screentoworldpoint#alternate-methods

[dusty falcon]

Unity 2D

[dusty falcon]

I had to send that earlier, sorry

[austere grotto]

Then https://unity.huh.how/screentoworldpoint

[dusty falcon]

will that work for touch screen?

[austere grotto]

why not

[dusty falcon]

an error appeared in the console:
InvalidOperationException: You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings.

[austere grotto]

If you're on the new input system you have to use that for the moouse position

not Input.mousePosition

But something like Mouse.current.position.ReadValue() IIRC

[dusty falcon]

I got it working, thank you

for helping

[uncut raven]

Is there a way to change which button is bound on a gamepad if it's a specific brand? For example, I want to use South for jump, unless using a Nintendo controller, in which case I want to use East

[austere grotto]

yes you can use control schemes for this

[hazy tide]

how can i reblind a control in unity

[austere grotto]

depends which input system you're using

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionRebindingExtensions.html

[outer apex]

Using 6000.0.11f1 and input system 1.8.2, using an input reader scriptable object to subscribe to input events. What's the expected way to use it if we're supposed to Disable() every map?

[hazy tide]

Hello
I have a problem in input when i enter playmode the input names changes but the movement no
but when i change the inputs in the play mode it become fixed
how can i fix that?

[unreal smelt]

I made a Debug.Log check for the brake/reverse input. If the car is stationary or moving backwards, and i hold brake, the car moves backwards and the message keeps getting sent as long as i am holding brake, as expected. but if the car is moving forward and i hold brake, the message is only sent once and the car doesn't brake.

https://gist.github.com/Winter-r/447c521d359129f2586cc6ae923b2dbd

[austere grotto]

performed only gets sent when the input actuation changes, it doesn't get sent every frame under any circumstance

[unreal smelt]

so what should i do

[austere grotto]

what are you trying to do

Looks like this function handles assigning brakeInput: https://gist.github.com/Winter-r/447c521d359129f2586cc6ae923b2dbd#file-carlocomotionmanager-cs-L80

probably start your investigation there

I'm not sure I understand how your initial question relates to the braking problem

[unreal smelt]

fixed it, had to do with the slip angle

thank you though!

[austere grotto]

right... kinda what I pointed you at

[unreal smelt]

yeah 😅

[past river]

hi! i've installed input system in my project but input system editor is not showing up. when i press the open button on the asset, nothing happens. only the global settings work, but i cannot set up actions. any ideas?

i've tried setting active input handling to "both" and input system (new)

[austere grotto]

What do you mean by "open button on the asset"?

Can you show screenshots?

[past river]

ah i just closed the project, let me see if i can find a picture

it looks similar to this.
https://discussions.unity.com/t/input-action-editor-window-not-showing-up/871614

i'm talking about the small "open" button in the top right corner of the input settings asset that you have to create to use the input system in a project

ah okay wait i think i understand my error now.

there's the "input system/settings" asset and then there are "input action" assets...

i think i'll be fine now, thanks for checking in!

[torpid star]

My input script is kinda of long. Any improvements that I could make?

I want to add inventory buttons (1-9) but it will bloat my script

[woeful tusk]

Is there any elegent simple solution, using the Unity new input system, for zoom in and out using touch screen pinch mechanic?

e.g, when using mouse/wheel you can easy get the Vector2.y and use that value.

Right now, I am using touch1/delta as its good enough, but its obviously inconsistent.

I watched all those ideas on the internet with using two positions and distance magnitutde, but it required too much code and uses corutines.

I want something as simple as mouse wheel up and down.

[past river]

Okay, i'm confused after all.
In the official documentation, for the latest version, it says there is a "default project-wide action asset" or rather that there should exist a button in "Project Settings" under "Input System Package" that would create such an asset for us.

However, such a button does not exist. (there is only a "create settings asset", which is a different thing altogether.)
Also, the proposed way to use said project-wide actions in code, is by typing InputSystem.actions.<something>.
However, auto-completion suggests that InputSystem has no member named actions.

Could it be that the documentation is out-of-date and that the whole notion of default actions was phased out at some point?
Documentation I'm referring to:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.10/manual/ProjectWideActions.html

wait, I just saw that I only have Input System 1.7 installed. i assumed the package manager would automatically provide me the latest version. is it because my unity editor is version 2022.3.38f1 ?

[austere grotto]

The reverse, project wide actions is new and your version is too old

[austere grotto]

Yes

[past river]

thx!

[next vine]

Hi all. I have a Vector2 value action where I have a binding with modifiers. I would intuitively expect this action's press boolean to be true when the modifier keys are down, but it is only true when the Vector2 value != 0,0. Is there some way I can make the action 'pressed' when the modifier keys are down but value = default? Thx

(I know I can split the action into two, where one is a button and the other is a V2 value, but if it is possible to avoid this I would rather)

EDIT: solved

I ended up creating a subclass of TwoModifiersComposite that overrides EvaluateMagnitude to return 1 or 0 only depending on whether or not the modifier keys are down.

[sinful cedar]

hey guys, I randomly started getting spammed with these errors when trying to bind a joystick to an input map, has anybody seen something like this?

UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.NativeInputRuntime/<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0 (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,intptr)```

UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.NativeInputRuntime/<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0 (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate (UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputUpdateType,intptr)```

I removed the joystick binding but the errors still remain :Y

[idle monolith]

Hello, I'm using the new input system and I have it so holding the up button has the player hide in a hiding spot, and another use where when you hold the up button you search a spot for scrap, and for some reason these two things have stopped working properly, when you hold the up button for half a second (0.5f) the button stops registering, they remain hidden.

        if (upHold == 1)
        {
            upPress = true;
        }
        else if (upHold == 0)
        {
            upPress = false;
        }```

upPress fails after 0.5 seconds and I don't know why

[austere grotto]

wdym by "fails"?
Where does this code run?
What interactions and processors do you have on the input action?

[idle monolith]

I don't have interactions or processors on it

The above code runs in update

here is where I use it

            {
                area = col.gameObject.GetComponent<SearchArea>();

                searchProgress = area.searchProgress;

                if (upPress)
                {
                    if (area.searched == false)
                    {
                        if (area.searchProgress < 3)
                        {
                            searching = true;
                            area.searchProgress += Time.deltaTime;
                            searchProgress = area.searchProgress;

                            if (area.sr.sprite != area.sprites[1])
                            {
                                area.sr.sprite = area.sprites[1];
                            }

                            //make dumpster open sound

                            searchBar.SetActive(true);
                            searchBarFill.transform.localScale = new Vector2(area.searchProgress / 3, 1);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            area.searched = true;

                            scrap += area.scrapAmount;

                            searching = false;

                            StartCoroutine(DumpsterExit());
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    if (searching)
                    {
                        area.searchProgress = 0;

                        searching = false;

                        StartCoroutine(DumpsterExit());
                    }
                }
            }```

[austere grotto]

where is this?

It would be easier if you just shared the whole script

[idle monolith]

in collisionstay2d

[austere grotto]

Are you sure it's not OnCollisionStay2D that stops running?

Use Debug.Log

[idle monolith]

why would it

[austere grotto]

The Rigidbody2D maybe is falling asleep

[idle monolith]

how do you make it not do that

[austere grotto]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-sleepMode.html

[idle monolith]

I have never ever heard of this before, so how do I make it not sleep during these interactions, because I think you're right

so during the search, make it awake?

[austere grotto]

set it to never sleep of course

[idle monolith]

is never sleep expensive

it worked immediately, thank you so much

but is it expensive

[austere grotto]

in thjej future use Debug.Log to test your assumptions

You assumed the input system was causing your problem which it wasn't

so you got stuck

[idle monolith]

I didn't even imagine what it could be so I was grasping at straws

I'd never heard of sleep mode before

[austere grotto]

that's why you need to actually debug the game

[idle monolith]

i was using debug.logs but I didn't know what I should be debugging

[austere grotto]

well you thought the input wasn't working properly

so that would be a good start

[idle monolith]

I would have never thought it was the rigidBody

[austere grotto]

if you follow basic debugging steps you would get there eventually

you would realize OnCollisionStay wasn't running as expected

[lime heron]

is there a way to specifically register left mouse down with the input system? i can only find just left mouse in general

[austere grotto]

up and down are different states on the left mouse control

basically the short answer to your question is - no and there's no need to do so.

[lime heron]

so basically theres no way to have OnClick trigger only on mouse down

[austere grotto]

depends what "OnClick" is

[lime heron]

an action

[austere grotto]

no

Click is your action

OnClick sounds like some code

[lime heron]

sorry, misspoke

[austere grotto]

and when the code runs is highly dependent on how you choose to hook your code up to the input system

for example if you subscribe only to the performed callback of the input action, then it will only run on mouse down

Note there are many ways to use the new input system: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/manual/Workflows.html

[lime heron]

wait, so is it possible to make this mouse down only? sorry, im pretty new to unity

[austere grotto]

This is just a random function

As I mentioned, you would have to explain how you hooked this up to the input system

by the nature of your questions, I'm going to venture to guess that you're probably using the PlayerInput component in SendMessages mode?

[lime heron]

yeah

[austere grotto]

that particular combo is much less flexible than others. The short answer is you would need to either:

• Add an InputValue parameter to your function and check if (myInputValue.Get<float>() != 0)
• Switch to another approach

[lime heron]

okay, ill look into other approaches

[austere grotto]

if you switch to UnityEvent mode then you will get a InputAction.CallbackContext parameter and you can do if (ctx.performed)

[lime heron]

alr thank you

[hazy tide]

hello
i have this problem when using input system and making a reblinding menu using this

[tulip tartan]

Where is the W binding?
Oh I see. Expand Jump

[hazy tide]

here

[tulip tartan]

This is.... not really relevant to what I asked haha

[hazy tide]

by the way i have two players and two rebind menu

and two inputs

[tulip tartan]

Ok, so everything that is shown in these screenshots is for Player2, but the component is targeting Player/junp
Player has a jump action with the W binding as well, right? jump being lowecase?

[hazy tide]

yeah
by the way the player 1 input is
Player 2 Player Move jump
and the player 2 input is
player player2 Move jump

manCry

i think it will be the fifth day

[tulip tartan]

This is super convoluted I don't use that component.
Have you debugged the text coming in and checked it against actual binding names for spelling and capitalization errors?

That is all I can guess.
Praetor or someone more knowledgeable will hopefully be around on a few hours when it is their morning

[hazy tide]

Yeah i tried
okay thx

[valid arch]

Hey everyone, i have a gamepad connected and it works fine when i click any button on it, it gets connect and added to InputSystem.devices, but when i launch the game and i dont click anything, my devices list is empty. Do you know any way to force devices to be added to the list? i tried:

InputSystem.Update();
InputSystem.GetDevice<Gamepad>(new InternedString("Player1"));
InputSystem.FindControls("<Gamepad>");
Gamepad.current

Everything gave no results, all is null or empty lists.

I need it to show correct hints since gamepad is connected, thanks in advance 🙂

[solid pagoda]

why does spacebar triggers my input action even though it isn't binded to the action ?

[austere grotto]

Show your code

[solid pagoda]

it's an input action that uses unity event to call a function, my code doesn't affect it

[austere grotto]

Let me rephrase that - show your setup

and yes, your code may very well affect things

depending on how you are judging an action being triggered

[solid pagoda]

Place is getting called by LMB and also spacebar

[austere grotto]

How are you determining that Place is being called/triggered?

[austere grotto]

and how is this hooked up to the action?

also is there a log in that code or something?

[solid pagoda]

by a unity event on player input component

[austere grotto]

so is it possible there's any other code or event hooked up to this function, or to a similar function that would lead you to believe this function is running instead?

I would have a Debug.Log as the first line there and you could even check which action and which binding were used to call it from that ctx object

Debug.Log($"Called with action: {ctx.action}, control: {ctx.control}");```

[solid pagoda]

I just reassigned the binding it now works fine. weird.

[lime rose]

Hey, is there a way to use splitscreen with the new input system and cinemachine or is there none?

[austere grotto]

yes, of course

the new input system has local multiplayer features, and cinemachine can handle multiple cameras

[lime rose]

Because the documentation mention that it doesn't and I indeed have issues when I try

[austere grotto]

where did you see that?

PlayerInput has nothing to do with splitscreen

it's part of the input system

it doesn't care about screens

[lime rose]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.10/manual/KnownLimitations.html

[austere grotto]

PlayerInput split-screen support
What does this even mean?

Is that some newfeature in the new version of the input system

The input system is for input, and generally has nothing to do with rendering

[lime rose]

This thing

The split screen checkbox

[austere grotto]

Ok yeah so that's just talking about that magic automatic thing

you can do it yourself

that's a new thing too

[lime rose]

What do I need to change for that? Because it looks like it would work in theory but doesn't

at the end both screens how the same camera

[austere grotto]

make two cameras

set the viewport for each camera differently

[lime rose]

it's already the case

[austere grotto]

then you're good

they're not both showing the same camera

what's probably happening is both your virtual cameras are going to the same place

or rather

both cinemachine brains are following the same virtual camera

the way to fix that depends on which cinemachine version you're using

check the cinemachine package documentation for your version and look for "multiple unity cameras"

[lime rose]

I'll check that thanks

[fickle geode]

hey need some help with the new input system

when a button is pressed, the unity event that is supposed to be invoked is triggered 3 times.
how can i fix this? thanks for your time

[austere grotto]

There's nothing to fix, this is expected behavior

check the phase in the callback context

e.g.

if (ctx.performed) {
  DoSomething();
}```

Also see:

Debug.Log($"Context phase is {ctx.phase}");```

[fickle geode]

ive seen this online too
from what ive seen this variable is of InputAction.CallbackContext and is passed as a param in the c# method. When i add it as a parameter, the method stops appearing in the editor when i try to add it to the action

[austere grotto]

You'd have to show what you're doing

it should appear just fine

as you said, this is done all the time

show screenshots

[fickle geode]

one second

ill get some now

sorry i should have also mentioned i was adding in an additional parameter. If there is no additional parameter, the method appears fine.

[austere grotto]

you can't add an additional parameter

and the additional parameter doesn't make sense

remember, the input system is going to be calling this function for you

it would not have any idea how to add an additional parameter or what value to use for it.

[fickle geode]

alright
This code was for enabling and disabling sprinting upon button press and release. Would you recommend I separate this into two different events (that are called by the input system) that then call the ToggleSprint() method with true and false as required?

[austere grotto]

This code was for enabling and disabling sprinting upon button press and release.
Then that's all it should do

not sure what the "other event" would be

all this needs to do is set isSprinting to true or false

your other code can say:

float speed = isSprinting ? 2f : 1f;```

for example

[fickle geode]

interesting. What ive done so far right now is set up a setter on isSprinting and within the setter entered Movement_Speed = _isSprinting ? 2f : 1f;.

therefore my event is

    private bool _isSprinting = false;
    public bool IsSprinting
    {
        get { return _isSprinting; }
        set {
            _isSprinting = value;
            Movement_Speed = _isSprinting ? 2.0f : 1.0f;
        }
    }
    private void ToggleSprint(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (!context.performed) return;
        
        IsSprinting = !IsSprinting;
    }```
is that a sensible solution?

[austere grotto]

yeah that works too

[fickle geode]

alright thanks :). I appreciate the help man

new to this input system and such. everyone starts somewhere ;)

[slow shell]

Hey, I'm trying to figure out whether it's possible to respond to all OnMove events globally, outside of the currently selected GameObject. This is so that if a user clicks or the EventSystem's currently selected Selectable becomes null, when I get any directional input on the controller or cursor keys, I can re-focus the last focused Selectable, which I'm keeping track of in a singleton

Or, you know, if anyone has any other better ways to go about that

[slow shell]

Follow up question, since I can't seem to be able to determine if the OnMove thing is worth pursuing, I'm just defining all navigation events (controller D pad, left stick, and arrow keys) in my InputActions, then I'm just going to respond to those events instead of going for a catch-all via OnMove or similar...:

If I put all of my actions in the same global control scheme, is there anything inherently bad about that?

My understanding is just that all of the input actions will be "on" all the time, so I could control my game with a keyboard and controller simultaneously, however, I wouldn't be able to disable/enable a specific subset of them because, well, I would need to separate those actions into different control schemes, then switch to one of them or the other

Am I understanding all of this correctly?

[fresh galleon]

AFAIK you still have to set a specific class instance to respond to the input callbacks. You could create a singleton instance of the generated c# input class, and create separate public Action<context> variables (unless you can do that directly to the generated actions not sure here) for each of the action. Any script wanting to act on it would just subscribe to the singleton Action on Awake() or Start().

A better way I think would be to logically separate the actions you want into several action maps, that the correct script with the correct Interface implementation subscribes to and acts on. So Movement, UI, Minimap navigation etc. each separate. One of the "superpowers" of this new system is being able to do that dynamically and easily

[wind hawk]

Question: If you made two characters and you swap between them with different movement systems for each(EX: You swap between a cat and a fish with two different movements, so walking vs swimming.), would you need to make two different Unity Input Systems for each character? Even if they're both under the same player.

Mainly I'm planning to make a 'character' character and a spaceship character which the player can control them both by swapping between them in an instance.

However since the 'character' character is more limited by gravity, while the ship character's affected on 3D space, would I need 2 Input systems?

[austere grotto]

Probably would just use two different action maps if they're significantly different

[amber wigeon]

when i'm trying to generate a C# class out of my Input Action Asset, it throws this error:
Assets\Input\Input.cs(18,30): error CS0738: 'Input' does not implement interface member 'IInputActionCollection.devices'. 'Input.devices' cannot implement 'IInputActionCollection.devices' because it does not have the matching return type of 'ReadOnlyArray<InputDevice>?'.. It's the first time I'm seeing this error because it didn't happen before. How do i fix it? I'm using Unity Editor 2022.3.26f1, and the Input System package version is 1.7.0. here's how the generated C# class looks: https://pastebin.com/cc1cMb1b

the only thing that i tried yet is to remove and install the Input System package again, which didn't fix this error.

[amber wigeon]

it only happens in my current project, not other ones. i even tried to create a new Input Action Asset with nothing inside and it still throws the error

[austere grotto]

Have you tried manually deleting the generated C# class?

It might have been generated with an older version and not regenerated

[amber prism]

How do I set up my action map so that I can use the same input for two different actions? For example, clicking to move but also clicking to interact with a UI button?

I'm having some trouble figuring it out

[austere grotto]

clicking to interact with UI is usually just handled through the default actions asset (automatically assigned to the UI Input Module)

Is there a good reason you want to override that behavior?

[amber prism]

this thing?

[austere grotto]

If you are trying to get the behavior where clicking to move is blocked by UI then you will get that for free if you implement your click to move through the event system

[austere grotto]

yes but looks like you modified it

that's not usually necessary

[amber prism]

I just turned some stuff off for testing

[austere grotto]

you also assigned it to a different actions asset

[austere grotto]

Is this your goal?

[amber prism]

Yep

yeah I don't know what I'm doing

[austere grotto]

Implement the click to move through the event system - I.E. IPointerClickHandler

[amber prism]

I just want to click to move, but if I click on a ui then I shouldn't move

that's all I'm going for

[austere grotto]

You will get that for free if you follow my advice

[amber prism]

alright let me see here

[austere grotto]

Two options for this:

• If you have some kind of "gameplay surface" i.e. your terrain or something, you can put the IPointerClickHandler script on that

• Or you can implement a custom Raycaster to use Plane.Raycast with the event system

[amber prism]

so a new script with something like this?

[austere grotto]

yeah. You can use Vector3 clickedPosition = pointerEventData.pointerPressRaycast.worldPosition; to get the position you clicked

[austere grotto]

you'll also need to make sure:

• the object you are clicking on has a collider
• Your camera has a PhysicsRaycaster (or the 2D version depending on your setup)

[amber prism]

wait is IPointClickHandler not an interface already implemented by the input system?

I guess not cause I think I fixed it

[austere grotto]

not sure what you mean by that

IPointerClickHandler though

you're meant to implement it on your script for things that are clickable

You could also use the EventTrigger component if you want

[amber prism]

well until I did public interface IPointerClickHandler it couldn't be implemented

[austere grotto]

why

it's already defined

you don't need to define/declare it yourself

[amber prism]

yeah that's what I thought!

but that's what it's telling me

[austere grotto]

what does the error say

[amber prism]

the class can't implement the interface member

[austere grotto]

yeah you have to implement it

if you take the IDE's auto suggestikon for that it will give you the stub implementation

and you can fill it in

I'm using Rider

but VS has something similar

do that and it will give you the method stub

[austere grotto]

Basically you need a function defined exactly like this example

[amber prism]

like this?

[austere grotto]

Yes but:

• Don't call it IPointer
• replace that throw line with your actual code.

Vector3 clickedPosition = pointerEventData.pointerPressRaycast.worldPosition;
Debug.Log($"Clicked at position {clickedPosition});``` would be a good start

and you'll want to attach this code to your terrain or whatever

[amber prism]

the pointerEventData doesn't have context

what do I do?

[austere grotto]

what do you mean by that?

[austere grotto]

oh that';s just because you named your parameter differently

you named it eventData

[amber prism]

OOOHHH

oops

fixed

ok that's working

so I'd put my desired movement code in there

and get rid of this?

[austere grotto]

yeah

of course you will have to communicate between this script and your player object somehow

That's hopefully not too much of a challenge

[amber prism]

probably not

hopefully not

You've been a huge help! thanks for your time! I know I'm not the easiest to instruct so I appreciate the patience

[austere grotto]

you were quite pleasant to instruct

have a good day

[amber prism]

you as well!

[amber wigeon]

Yes, I deleted it manually and tried to regenerate and the problem is still here

I tried to generate this class in another project with exact same configuration and package version and it didn’t throw errors, but when I imported this class to my current project, then it threw error as if there was something badly configured in my current project?

[amber wigeon]

i think the error is gone. the problem was that i had my own static c# class that had an Input Device enum :p

[winter basin]

Is there an api, a method to unsubscribe and remove all listeners for input actions?

I want to remove all listeners when unloading the current scene

[verbal remnant]

you can set the event = null, but its a weird thing to do, the listeners should unsub themselves on destroy

[winter basin]

yes but for scripts which are singleton, it is OK to unsubscribe input action events in one place

In my mind, when a scene is unloaded, all input action events should be unsubscribed

[verbal remnant]

no, this is bad, because the pattern is meant to be exactly the inverse of that. The publisher of the events should have no concern for whether a subscriber manages its states/subs correctly.

Also you aren't telling the subscriber that it was unsubscribed so it may be still waiting for callbacks.

if you unsubscribe the listener in the publisher, you encode and couple domain knowledge of the lifetime of your entire collection of systems into a single sub-system

[tame oracle]

What this one does? I thought it gets the latest touch position but it stops when first touch stops. I think it gets primary touch? Then why is it seperated?
I want multi touch binding in input actions. There is no reason to not use EnchancedTouch API but i believe it should be possible in input actions too.
I believe this is a bug. They removed the "touch *" from the list but the functionality still works (see OnScreenStick.cs line 96). They may tried to switch to that way.

[winter basin]

No, you did not get it

There are n scripts. They listen to some input action events. These scripts should listen forever until the scene is unloaded. It is mind blowing why I should unsubscribe them when unloading the scene.
It is obvious it should be unsubscribed when the scene does not exist because it is unloaded

My way was to automate it. I mean using for example reflection, in one place, unsubscribe all input action events when the scene is unloaded.
It is not related to publisher

[austere grotto]

The Gamepad class is for the new system and KeyCode is for the old system

so which system are you using?

[exotic night]

I'm trying to stun the player and cancel their movements, but have them stop moving when stunned, and when the stun ends if they were holding a direction they will start moving again without having to reinput movement.
My code currently looks like this:
private void OnMovement(InputValue inputValue){ //rb.velocity = inputValue.Get<Vector2>(); if (controllable == true) { rb.velocity = inputValue.Get<Vector2>() * _speed; } else { Debug.Log("Stunned."); } }

[austere grotto]

store the velocity in a Vector2 variable instead of applying it directly tot he rigidbody

then you can reapply it as soon as you're un-stunned

In fact I would probably just recommend against using event based input handling in general for "continuous" input like a joystick

But something like this will work:

Vector2 moveInput;

private void OnMovement(InputValue inputValue) {
    moveInput = inputValue.Get<Vector2>();
}

void FixedUpdate() {
    if (controllable) {
        rb.velocity = moveInput * _speed;
    }   
    else { Debug.Log("Stunned.");  }
}```

[exotic night]

would i be putting the fixedUpdate code in the void Update or would I be calling FixedUpdate in void Update?

[austere grotto]

1. Never put functions inside other functions unless you're an expert
2. You don't call FixedUpdate. Unity calls it for you. it's one of the built in functions unity calls automatically

They are not called "voids" btw, they are called "methods" or "functions"

[exotic night]

I see, thank you for the help. this solution works for me

[amber prism]

I've got this code here that I've converted to work with the input system

   {
       // Uses a reference from the 'PauseMenu' script
       if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && !PauseMenu.isPaused)
       {
           Vector2 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
           RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(mousePosition, Vector2.zero);

           if (hit.collider != null && hit.collider.CompareTag("Enemy"))
           {
               if (hit.collider.gameObject != currentEnemy)
               {
                   ShowOverlaySprite(hit.collider.gameObject);
               }
           }
       }
   }```

into

    {
        // Uses a reference from the 'PauseMenu' script
        if (!PauseMenu.isPaused)
        {
            Vector2 clickPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(eventData.position);
            RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(clickPosition, Vector2.zero);

            if (hit.collider != null && hit.collider.CompareTag("Enemy"))
            {
                if (hit.collider.gameObject != currentEnemy)
                {
                    ShowOverlaySprite(hit.collider.gameObject);
                }
            }
        }
    }```

the problem is that I need this called from a scene manager object, and not from anything individually

[austere grotto]

SceneManager.Instance.MyFunction(...);

(using the singleton pattern)

Also just FYI, this code doesn't make a lot of sense to me

first off

this has nothing to do with the new input system

you've switched from reading the mouse position via the old input system to using the Event System

(which is not the input system)

[amber prism]

OH

I got them confused

please excuse me

[austere grotto]

old to new input system conversion would have been:

Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)``` turns into ```cs
Mouse.current.leftButton.wasPressedThisFrame```

And:
Input.mousePosition -> Mouse.current.position.ReadValue()

you've done something completely different here

That being said - I do recommend using the event system, but the way you've done it is a bit roundabout / wrong

[amber prism]

I may have gotten ahead of myself in trying to change the script

I don't think I need to do anything to it

[austere grotto]

If you want to use the event system this script would go on the enemy objects themselves, and call out to the Scene Manager in some way, for example through the singleton pattern, or with events.

[amber prism]

I was in the middle of updating other things and got carried away with this one

this script runs fine for what I need it for I think

I apologize

[tulip tartan]

1. this channel is for the input system
2. we cannot discuss modding in this server

[tulip tartan]

Do you have a question related to the input system?

[valid gate]

Looking for advice. I have two UI action maps, one for general UI and another for character setup/selection UI screen. When I enable the character selection screen I switch action map to the "UI Character Setup" action map, which disables the "UI" action map.

My buttons stopped working, the only thing that works are the buttons I use to change character/etc. I cannot click on any buttons on the UI menu anymore until I switch back to "UI" action map.

Trying to find possible solution, any ideas?
Image 1: input analyzer, showing the UI action map being disabled and UI Character Setup is active.
Image 2: This is what the Input System UI Input Module looks like, it has references to the UI action map. Maybe here's the problem?

here's the action maps

[austere grotto]

1. is there a good reason you're using a custom actions asset for the Input Module?
2. What do you mean by "switch back to the UI action map"? Switching how?

are you using PlayerInput? How did you hook your actions up to your code?

[valid gate]

1. I've added gamepad inputs to my own actions asset that the default don't use
2. I'm calling a script that's on the player that holds a reference to the PlayerInput component, supplying a string of the name of the new action map: public void SwitchActionMap (string _actionMap) => playerInput.SwitchCurrentActionMap(_actionMap);
3. I'm invoking Unity Events on the PlayerInput component which I've setup to call a function in my PlayerInputHandler:

  switch (_context.phase) {
    case InputActionPhase.Performed:
      IsReady = !IsReady;
      Ready.Invoke(IsReady);

      break;
  }
}```

[austere grotto]

yeah when you do SwitchActionMap it disables all other action maps

you don't want to do that if your asset is being used for UI input that still needs to work

Two options:

• Forgoe using SwitchActionMap and enable/disable action maps manually e.g. via myPlayerInput.actions.FindActionMap("MyMapName").Enable()/Disable()
• Put the UI stuff that is used in the input module in a separate asset altogether.

[valid gate]

Thank you, I'll try it out 🙂

[timid dagger]

[legacy Input / Rewired]
I'm working on a project where we're using Rewired to handle inputs, but I've noticed issues on mobile platforms. For example, when I test my Dualsense gamepad on iOS, it fails to detect some inputs properly. For example, Rewired treats Options buttons as Button 8, but so it does Share button. When I tested XBox gamepad, the scenario was the same, both Start and Back buttons were treated as Button 8. It makes it impossible to distinguish those buttons. I also can't detect Dualsense pressing Touchpad button at all. I've compared it to the legacy Unity's Input, and scenario looks more or less the same - Touchpad button can't be detected, Share/Back button is treated as Joystick1Button0 (4 or 5 times, for some reason), Start/Options button is treated as both Joystick1Button0 and Joystick1Button16 (which 2 buttons are treated as the same button), and also Dualsense can't detect Tochpad button. On the other hand, on Desktop versions everything works like a charm.

So the question is: are there any ways of fixing it manually, or do I have to change input system in the entire project?

[finite hollow]

Anyone have a working Input Action Asset for Unity 6 for OpenXR? It doesn't work anymore and I am unable to map it

[amber prism]

I'm making a build for android but it throws up this error when I have my input settings set to "Both"

so I switch it to just the "New" one and then I get a million errors on play. My input also doesn't work after this point.

I'm not sure what to do about this. Does anyone have any ideas?

[austere grotto]

The errors tell you exactly what the problem is and exactly where the problem is.

you need to convert your code to use the new system of course.

[amber prism]

that's what I was afraid it was saying

I was really hoping there was an easier solution

[austere grotto]

I mean it seems pretty obvious

also it's very easy

[austere grotto]

If you don't want to use the new system, why not just stick with the old one

what you are afraid of here, though, is learning

[amber prism]

It's not the learning. I'm really enjoying the process

my issue is the work to convert

[austere grotto]

Once you know how the new input system works, it's very little work

[amber prism]

I just want the game to run already 😔

[austere grotto]

then just stick with the old

[amber prism]

the old wasn't working with android

[austere grotto]

why did you switch to the new system if you want to use the old one?

[amber prism]

that's why I switched

[austere grotto]

what specifically wasn't working?

The old system works fine with Android in general

[amber prism]

@austere grotto then using the new system is what I'll do (I didn't want to split the conversation too much)

@austere grotto do you have a guide that explains the conversion process?

[austere grotto]

Have you checked the docs? The docs have such a thing. but it's best to just learn the new system from scratch and then apply it as you need

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.10/manual/Migration.html

[amber prism]

yeah that's what I was looking for

thank you

[austere grotto]

This is the best advice:

If you're new to the Input System package and have landed on this page looking for documentation, it's best to read the QuickStart Guide, and the Concepts and Workflows pages from the introduction section of the documentation, so that you can make sure you're choosing the best workflow for your project's input requirements.

This is because there are a number of different ways to read input using the Input System, and many of the directly corresponding API methods on this page might give you the quickest but least flexible solution, and may not be suitable for a project with more complex requirements.

[verbal remnant]

Say do you know why nobody seems to know that input action references are a thing, why docs don’t mention them as a workflow and why they might not be a good idea to use extensively? I find the emphasis of InputSystem.Find in examples somewhat strange? Is there a hidden benefit to using the string based action lookups that makes them the recommended workflow?

[hoary whale]

Why isn't this working? Some context: I'm using the new Input System and invoking unity events to the Player Input component
What I want is this:

if (JumpPressed && IsGrounded()) 
{
}
// Jump was pressed ONCE; even if you hold jump, you wouldn’t jump again    
if (JumpPressedThisFrame && IsGrounded())   
{
}
// Jump ONCE on release; not really something I'd use, but yea
if (JumpReleasedThisFrame && IsGrounded())   
{
}```

Right now, JumpPressed works as intended, JumpPressedThisFrame behaves like JumpPressed, and JumpReleasedThisFrame is acting weird, it works like JumpPressed, but continues jumping on its own once I release
.

.
Here’s the relevant code. I’m quite new, so I’m probably doing this the wrong way or missing something very simple

PlayerInputHandler.cs

{
    public bool JumpPressed { get; private set; }
    public bool JumpPressedThisFrame { get; private set; }
    public bool JumpReleasedThisFrame { get; private set; }

    public void OnJumpInput(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        JumpPressed = context.action.IsPressed();
        JumpPressedThisFrame = context.action.WasPressedThisFrame();
        JumpReleasedThisFrame = context.action.WasReleasedThisFrame();
    }
}```

PlayerState.cs
```public abstract class PlayerState
{
    protected Player Player { get; private set; }
    public bool JumpPressed { get; private set; }
    public bool JumpPressedThisFrame { get; private set; }
    public bool JumpReleasedThisFrame { get; private set; }

    public virtual void UpdateLogic()
    {
        UpdateInputs();
    }
    private void UpdateInputs()
    {
        JumpPressed = Player.InputHandler.JumpPressed;
        JumpPressedThisFrame = Player.InputHandler.JumpPressedThisFrame;
        JumpReleasedThisFrame = Player.InputHandler.JumpReleasedThisFrame;
    }
}```

PlayerIdleState.cs
```public class PlayerIdleState : PlayerState
{
    public override void UpdateLogic()
    {
        base.UpdateLogic();

        if (JumpPressedThisFrame && IsGrounded())
        {
            StateMachine.ChangeState(Player.JumpState);
        }
    }
}```

[austere grotto]

Your PlayerINputHandler code doesn't make sense

Because the OnJumpInput function is only going to run at the exact moment you press or release the button

So these:

        JumpPressedThisFrame = context.action.WasPressedThisFrame();
        JumpReleasedThisFrame = context.action.WasReleasedThisFrame();```
Will become stale after one frame

Really it doesn't make a lot of sense to use event-based input handling to set state-based input data

You should pick one or the other

either read your inputs in Update, or use events

don't use events to set data that you then read in Update, it makes things weird.

[hoary whale]

Okay, so I ditched the player input component and generated the class instead

I'm doing this now in my handler, and it works. I'm still not sure if this is the best way

    {
        MoveInput = Actions.Player.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>();

        JumpPressed = Actions.Player.Jump.IsPressed();
        JumpPressedThisFrame = Actions.Player.Jump.WasPressedThisFrame();
        JumpReleasedThisFrame = Actions.Player.Jump.WasReleasedThisFrame();
    }```
Also, I'll be honest, I missed one if in my fall state. But yeah, my previous approach was definitely not working anyway according to the debug logs, so it doesn't really matter

[austere grotto]

You could just make these properties and ditch Update altogether

In fact you could ditch this middleman class and directly reference the actions instance

Or just expose the actions instance instead of individual variables/properties

[devout tinsel]

hello! I wanted to download a newer input system version manually. does anyone know if its safe to install the latest one (10.0) or do I install 9.0?

[hoary whale]

Wait that's actually cool
so like this?
in PlayerState

    public float InputY => Player.InputHandler.Actions.Player.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>().y;
    public bool JumpPressed => Player.InputHandler.Actions.Player.Jump.IsPressed();
    public bool JumpPressedThisFrame => Player.InputHandler.Actions.Player.Jump.WasPressedThisFrame();
    public bool JumpReleasedThisFrame => Player.InputHandler.Actions.Player.Jump.WasReleasedThisFrame();```
and in InputHandler I'd just have this, and I could and probably will move this into Player instead, we'll see
```    public PlayerIA Actions;
    private void Awake() => Actions = new PlayerIA();
    private void OnEnable() => Actions.Enable();
    private void OnDisable() => Actions.Disable();```

[gusty acorn]

Hello Hello!

I am pretty new to Unity but running into something I just can't seem to figure out.
I want to track when I press the jump button, but outside of my OnJump function, jumpButtonDown always comes up as false. I beleive it has something to do with the fac tthat OnJump is called 3 times, started, performed, and cancelled, and after an instant started is false, but I can't think of a way to have a jumpButtonDown variable that I can use throughout the rest of my code

        jumpAction = context.ReadValue<float>();
        jumpButtonDown = context.started;
        if (context.started && (touchingDirections.IsGrounded || jumpsRemaining != 0 && !IsWallJumping && !IsWallSliding)) {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpsRemaining != maxJumps ? doubleJumpeImpulse : jumpImpulse);

            jumpsRemaining--;
        }
        if (context.canceled && rb.velocity.y > 0 && !IsWallJumping && !IsWallSliding) {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, rb.velocity.y * 0.5f);
        }
    }

    private void WallJump() {
       if (jumpButtonDown && wallJumpingCounter > 0f) {
            IsWallJumping = true;
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(wallJumpingDirection * wallJumpingPower.x, wallJumpingPower.y);
            wallJumpingCounter = 0f;

            Invoke(nameof(StopWallJumping), wallJumpingDuration);
        }
    }

    private void Update() {
        horizontal = moveInput.x;

        WallSlide();
        WallJump();
        if (jumpButtonDown) {
            Debug.Log("jumpButtonDown in Update");
        }

        if (touchingDirections.IsGrounded && !(jumpAction > 0)) {
            jumpsRemaining = maxJumps;
        }
        if (!touchingDirections.IsGrounded && jumpsRemaining > (maxJumps - 2)) {
            jumpsRemaining = maxJumps - 1;
        }
    }

So in both Update and WallJump jumpButtonDown never registers as true, though it does in OnJump

[austere grotto]

Having a separate bool variable you set is an overcomplication. Just do the jump logic in the input handler

And yes it's because of the second line in your function

It's clearly going to set it false

[gusty acorn]

Ahhh, do you mind elaborting on what this means, or how to do this. I am still a bit new to unity and C#

[austere grotto]

As far as I can tell you're already doing it

It's unclear to me why you need to check for the input in Update

Your code is already handling the jump in OnJump

[gusty acorn]

ah yeah so there is no real reason to have jump on update. I just wanted to see if jumpButtonDown would ever be true on update.

The primary thing I want is to have wall jump activate when I press the jumpButton. And right now that just never happens because jumpButtonDown is always false

I am looking for a way of tracking when the button is pressed outside of the OnJump

[austere grotto]

Activate it in OnJump

Make a bool for whatever you want but you need to have a well defined place to make it false again

Because your current logic doesn't make sense

You're setting it to false on the performed and canceled input phases

You shouldn't do anything for those

[gusty acorn]

This makes sense

[gusty acorn]

wouldn't this be activated 3 times one for each phase?

[austere grotto]

Use an if statement

if (context.performed) {
  myBool = true;
}```

[gusty acorn]

Sorry, I think I am a little bit lost on what I should be calling for this if statement.

I think I am just not sure what ctx.performed means and where in the code I would want this if statment.

Sorry for these super basic questions

[austere grotto]

context

I'm talking about code that would go in OnJump

Instead of what you have now which doesn't make sense

[gusty acorn]

    jumpAction = context.ReadValue<float>();
    if (context.performed) {
      jumpButtonDown = True;
    }
}```

so something like this?

[austere grotto]

Your parameter is called context

Not ctx

And jumpButtonDown isn't a good name for that variable really

It depends what you're trying to do with it

[gusty acorn]

so wouldn't this always be true as long as i am holding the jump button?

[austere grotto]

No it will become true when you first press the button and then never change

Until you have some other code change it

If you have code in Update that uses it you would set it false after you use it

But again, you could just avoid all this and do everything in OnJump in the first place

[gusty acorn]

Ahhh so move my WallJump code into OnJump?

okay that makes the most sense I think

rather than having WallJump as a seperate function, just have WallJump work inside of my OnJump function

I didn't think about that

but makes sense

[sullen pebble]

also does anybody know how to get the control scheme from an input action https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.10/manual/Actions.html
I need to respond slightly differently depending on if it was a controller or a keyboard
should I just add seperate actions or is there a better way
I read like 5 forums but im still confused bc nobody gives examples

[austere grotto]

depends on how you're handling the input. You can read the control from the CallbackContext if you have one

But depending on the type of difference you want, it can be done with processors

[sullen pebble]

but how

thats what I want to do but how

[austere grotto]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.CallbackContext.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputAction_CallbackContext_control

[sullen pebble]

true but how do I get the scheme from the input control

[austere grotto]

why do you need the scheme

check if it's a keyboard key or a controller button

Maybe you could back up here and explain what exactly you want to do differently in each case and why you feel you need this.

[sullen pebble]

well

when the player presses the shoot button on mouse then it will shoot towards the mouse

when the player presses it on controller it should use the right stick

to aim

[austere grotto]

that doesn't sound like anything that should be handled in the button handling part

mouse aiming and joystick aiming are quite different

you can/should just have two separate actions for those

and those determine the aim

[sullen pebble]

alright

[austere grotto]

the firing part is simple

just shoot wherever you're aiming

[sullen pebble]

ur right

[exotic night]

I have code that's makes it so that when the player controls are removed, their movement stops right at that moment, then movement continues again the moment theyre allowed to move again without having to repress movement buttons, but it's stuffing the jumps.
if (controllable) { rb.velocity = moveInput * _speed; } else { rb.velocity = rb.velocity * 0; }
the jump code is:
rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * JumpAbility, ForceMode.Impulse); rb.velocity = new Vector3(rb.velocity.x, 0, 0);

[quasi chasm]

the if(controllable) runs every frame?

if it does, it immediately overrides all changes you do in the jump code

what you should do, is have two functions, ControlLost and ControlRegained
and in ControlLost take the velocity and store it in a separate variable, then set the velocity to zero
and in ControlRegained, take that velocity stored in a separate variable, and set the velocity to it
orrrr you could just use OnKey instead of OnKeyDown (or equivalent in new input system if you're using that) and not bother with that at all

[exotic night]

yeah the first line of code is in void Update, and the jump code is linked to the input system, sorry should of clarified that.
So would I be putting control lost and control regain in the update function then?

[sullen pebble]

whats the best way to check whether the player is using a mouse or a controller

I just need to switch aiming modes depending

and hide the aiming reticle

[spare frigate]

One way could be to check the device wasUpdatedThisFrame, for example if(Gamepad.current.wasUpdatedThisFrame) {...} - this would require polling in Update though, depending on your project, that may not always be ideal

[sullen pebble]

I found it

callbackcontext.control.device is Gamepad

[exotic night]

took awhile for me to figure out how to do this but I just got it working and replaced every call to make controllable false with ctrl lost and vice versa, and then had two variables to read the direction input for rb.velocity, and had rb.velocity set to zero while control was lost, then set rb.velocity to that variable and timed it by speed when controls were regained.
my appreciate for the help.

[iron flicker]

Hello

How to make a 3 sec hold button?
with a radiant progress bar

[austere grotto]

Update + IPointerDownHandler+ IpointerUpHandler

Or a Coroutine plus those events

[iron flicker]

no, i use new input

[tulip tartan]

So same difference. Start the timer in performed (or .started), stop in canceled.
If started, add time in update or using a coroutine

[iron flicker]

Are you sure you need a coroutine?

[tulip tartan]

I literally just told you a way other than a coroutine.

So yes, I am sure you do NOT need a coroutine

You can use Update, as we both mentioned

Or tasks

[iron flicker]

okay ,ty

[verbal remnant]

Best way is to use the PlayerInput component (just for this detection purpose). It implements the full complexity of device switch detection

[sinful cedar]

hey guys, just have a quick question about changing input maps at runtime - I have two control schemes that I need to swap between and a few keys/mouse inputs that do something different depending on the control scheme

my input actions are currently set up to call events like this

so if I change the action asset I'm thinking it'd probably reset the event maps, right? Is there a way around this?

[timid dagger]

I think inputs in the Input System were supposed to have their maps permanent. Instead of changing their maps in runtime, you can simply create 2 different references to Input Actions, and attach different events to different references. E.g. if you created Input Action "Navigation" in map "Gameplay" and "UI", then you could assign Gameplay's Navigation to the character controller and UI's Navigation to some UI elements. Then you enable/disable particular maps depending on what kind of utility you want to use right now. No events will be reset that way.

If you want to juggle Input Actions without losing their data during the process, I would suggest switching to InputActionReference, as it will refer to one shared instance of it. That way all listeners will be added to the same event and nothing will be lost during swapping the references. However you will need to remember to clean up the listeners when the script will no longer need to listen to the Input (so usually in OnDisable or OnDestroy).

[sinful cedar]

hey, thanks for this tip - the former is kind of what how I approached it in the end, there are two control schemes that I'm trying to swap between that aren't just different input types but different control concepts, one is a joystick and one is a 'pointer', but they control the same entity who has a Player Input component with the input action asset mapped. What I've done is I've added the 'pointer' scheme to another game object referencing the player and then have some if statements in the player component that checks what control scheme is active

[rotund rose]

I have a niche question/problem:
I'm currently trying to implement steamdeck accessibility to my game.
But I am unable to invoke the SteamDeck keyboard via iSteamUtils GamepadTextInput but it doesn't seem to be working. Despite having it coded--correctly.

Note: Yes, the Steamworks.NET lib is imported and works as expected.
Referenced documentation: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamUtils#ShowGamepadTextInput

I'd like to know if someone can help with this?

[vale harbor]

guys i need some help i have an action which takes mouse delta and uses it to rotate a camera for third person now i want to implement this on a phone in which if u move ur finger around the screen the camera moves like those fps mobile game. How this should be done

[spare fable]

hello, i am on my first Unity Project which is about Handtracking with Ultraleap. I do it as my final project at university.
Since Ultraleap made his Server "read only" i am missing a fast source for help.
Now i got problems with the ultraleap plugin due to the new update and even using the older version doesnt fix my errors anymore...

is someone here who can help me and has some experience with Ultraleap and its plugin?

short summary:

had an error and couldnt go run time so i updated from 6.15.0 to 7.0.0 but then i got typ and namespace errors and all of my interaction cubes and prefabs were missing.

so i removed it and installed 6.15.0 again. Cubes and prefabs are back but now i still got this errors again, which i didnt hat the last time i used this verson:

Assets\Samples\Ultraleap Tracking\7.0.0\XR Examples\Example Assets\Physical Hands\Scripts\PhysicalHandsChangeColoursOnHandEvents.cs(96,31): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ContactHand' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[split epoch]

hi, i have a really basic question because i'm new to InputSystem (and Unity)

i'd like to have controls trigger events in different objects. for example, some controls to move the player, and other controls to cause changes in the environment

I tried using PlayerInput components for each object, but it only seems to want to use one of them at a time, so I assume it's the recommended method to only have one

How do I recieve InputSystem events on non-player objects?

I can think of a few ways it could be done by relaying the information, but I want my player to strictly handle player code and my environment to handle environment code. I'm also concerned about latency if I add too much between the input and the result

[sage lake]

I am a little bit confused. I set up the default input system for my controller and the only part that seems to work is my left stick? the right stick or buttons just don't end up working. Any idea why?

[split epoch]

idk about that but are you confusing joystick with thumbstick?

[sage lake]

I doubt it because these are the inputs afaik

it doesn't let you input anything that isn't valid

[austere grotto]

You have them set to "key or mouse button". You need to set it to joystick

[sage lake]

OH TRUE

well that explains Right stick

not the buttons though

actually it still doesn't work

so uh...

and replacing that broke the left stick too...

I think my controller is just being weird and that is why my left stick works?

maybe its just being read as a keyboard which would suck :)

that seems to be the reason :/

I also added duplicates for controller input

I didn't notice they where originally there

[split epoch]

I feel like i'm just not understanding how the whole InputSystem is supposed to work. reading the docs more and it looks to me like:

1. each Player Input Component is supposed to represent exactly one player
2. a Player Manager Component is used to handle multiplayer

therefore i should only have one Player Input Component, anywhere in my project because it is singleplayer, and no Player Manager Component

3. Schemes are for different devices
4. Action Maps are for different binding layouts on those devices
5. Project-Wide Actions are supposed to be actions that are always used, regardless of what scenes are loaded. for example, UI menu controls

therefore my player actions should not be project wide actions

... so how do i have one user (one Player Input Component, zero project-wide actions) trigger events on multiple in-game objects?

I could make an object thats like a "Player Input Handler" which has the singular component, but then i'll have to manually recreate all of the built-in events in order to trigger them for other objects.
this is 1. not seeming like the intended use, 2. a lot of work, and 3, seems like it would increase latency

[austere grotto]

You could just not use the player input component

And no "latency" is not a major concern

But as noted the PlayerInput/PlayerInputManager combo is primarily intended for local multiplayer

[split epoch]

the workaround i have at the moment is to make the actions project-wide to accomplish this, even though they're not used in some scenes... hopefully this doesnt cause issues down the line

[tribal sable]

how do i add a 2d vector composite?

this is what appears in the tutorial i'm following

positive/negative binding just created a 1d one

nvm i got it to work

[austere grotto]

Your action needs to be set as Value/Vector2 which you probably figured out

[quaint flax]

Does anyone know how to manually set inputs to specific users, I have two control schemes in my game and It's not allowing me to switch between controller and mouse and keyboard because it thinks it's two different players
If I set the control scheme to Controller the controller works, but if it's set to all only the keyboard does which is user 0

[austere grotto]

Put all the bindings in the same control scheme

[bold mica]

Hi, I'm trying to make this input script i saw on a tutorial and i copied exactly as it was on the video and it gives me an error, i'm new to all this game-making stuff so i don't really know how to see what's wrong

this error

[austere grotto]

First off your IDE is not configured

Before you do anything else you need to fix that

!ide

[sonic sage]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[bold mica]

like this?

oh, it fixed itself lol

thanks haha

[torpid ember]

How do you change action maps?
I've been having a hard time understanding how write the code to change it
I've been trying to write code to switch from the current action map named "Player" to one named "UI" and I can't seem to get it to work

I tried doing this from a video I saw but I keep getting the error "MenuPause.cs(23,25): error CS1061: 'PlayerInput' does not contain a definition for 'actions' and no accessible extension method 'actions' accepting a first argument of type 'PlayerInput' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

wait I think I may have figured out what I've been doing wrong

[austere grotto]

PlayerInput specifically has like a "SetChrrentSctionMap" function

In your case though it's a naming problem

You named your asset PlayerInput so the generated class name is hiding the built in PlayerInput component

[sage lake]

I set up the Unity Input system to do this to just read the button value out of it. but for some reason it reads the value 2x when I press the button which is weird. I get a total of 3 inputs which messes up my checks. How would I fix this?

[austere grotto]

print(ctxt.phase);

Then you'll see what's happening

[sage lake]

I assume its press, hold and release

makes sense though

found out how to fix it either way so we good 👍

[austere grotto]

Well it's press and release for started and canceled.

Performed depends on which interaction you have on the action, if any

[proven marlin]

When using the 'new' Input System through C# events (generating the C# class, etc.), the best approach for clean code and performance is to directly call that generated C# class in other scripts, instead of using something like a manager in the scene? Bc I did this, but now I think it might be kind of dumb
https://gdl.space/axajosaguc.cs
https://gdl.space/basebosaxo.cs

[tulip tartan]

!code

[sonic sage]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[sinful cedar]

hey guys, have a bit of an elemetary question about the escape key being used for two different input actions

I have a pause menu which contains an additional submenu

so I'd like for the escape button to exit the submenu > exit pause menu

what I've done is this: ``` public void OnPause(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
if (context.action.phase == InputActionPhase.Performed && !GameManager.PauseController.inOptions)
{
print("not in options");
GameManager.Instance.Pause();
}
}

public void OnBack(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
    if (context.action.phase == InputActionPhase.Performed && GameManager.PauseController.inOptions)
    {
        print("pause back");            
        GameManager.PauseController.ChangeSelection();
        GameManager.PauseController.inOptions = false;
    }
}```

however, pressing the escape key when I'm in the submenu calls both functions

I've made both actions buttons, but no luck

anybody have any ideas?

[austere grotto]

I'm not sure I understand about your explanation, why would you expect it not to call both?

[sinful cedar]

There's a sub-menu within the pause menu, so basically there's two levels of menu

I'd like escape to return to the main pause menu from the sub menu, then you press escape again to completely exit the pause menu and return to the game

[hot gale]

Hey guys! I have a smart screen issue I can't quite wrap my head around. In my game, I want to allow multitouch so that the user can use the joystick UI on one side of the screen and a button UI on the other side of the screen. They need to always be able to use both those UI elements. However there is also a panning/zooming feature. I want to ignore that while using the joystick.

My issue is that when a second finger comes down on the screen, the input seems to consider the new input location to be off the joystick and ignores my joystick check all together. Any ideas on how I might fix this?

[violet niche]

Hello! I have an XBOX controller conected to my PC and on Unity i set up this binding which i expect not to trigger with the XBOX controller as there is a separate XBOX A/B/X/Y.
Should i disable Gamepad myself or is unity in charge? Im getting the input triggered with the XBOX controller

[austere grotto]

Xbox a button is button south

Gamepad bindings work for all gamepads including Xbox controllers

It's hard to understand what you expect or want here. You want it to work for all gamepads except Xbox for some reason?

[violet niche]

I thought i needed to add xbox binding too specifically so it could work, but i just removed it and indeed gamepad button south matches with xbox a 🙂

[lethal isle]

Hi guys. I m following some tutorial regarding Camera follow but they are using old input mechanisms. I m moving it to the new input system but I ve a question: If I'm doing something like cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView = myValue , can I keep it in my function or should be in the FixedUpdate()or Update() method? thanks

[austere grotto]

Keep it in what function? You would do it wherever it makes sense to do it based on whatever you're trying to do. There's no general answer to this, you'd have to give more information like what you're trying to do and your current code.

[lethal isle]

thanks for your feedback. Here is the code I have (I've remove some no usefull part)

using Unity.Cinemachine;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem.EnhancedTouch;

public class CameraSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private CinemachineCamera cinemachineCamera;

    [SerializeField] private float zoomSpeed = 10f;

    [Header("Field Of View")]
    [SerializeField] private float fieldOfViewMin = 10;
    [SerializeField] private float fieldOfViewMax = 50;
    

    private TouchControls cameraControlActions;
    private float fieldOfView;

    private void Awake() {
        // Enable enhanced touch support if not already
        if (!EnhancedTouchSupport.enabled)
            EnhancedTouchSupport.Enable();

        fieldOfView = cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView;

        cameraControlActions = new TouchControls();
        cameraControlActions.Camera.Enable();
        cameraControlActions.Camera.Pinch.performed += HandleCameraZoom_FieldOfView;
    }

    private void FixedUpdate() 
    {
        cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView = fieldOfView; 
    }


    private void HandleCameraZoom_FieldOfView(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        float yDelta = cameraControlActions.Camera.Pinch.ReadValue<Vector2>().y;

        if (yDelta > 0 ) {
            targetFieldOfView -= 5;
        }

        if (yDelta < 0 ) {
            targetFieldOfView += 5;
        }

        targetFieldOfView = Mathf.Clamp(targetFieldOfView, fieldOfViewMin, fieldOfViewMax);

        fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView, targetFieldOfView, Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed);
    }


}

On this case, instead having a FixedUpdate() method can do on HandleCameraZoom_FieldOfView:

cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView, targetFieldOfView, Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed);
``` or it can cause some strange effect ?

[azure gyro]

Hi does new input system run on the MainThread or its running on the a different thread? If its on the mainthread theres any easy way to make it run on adifferent thread without using dots?

[austere grotto]

The input system runs on the main thread and there's no way to change that. Why do you ask?

[azure gyro]

Because its blocking the sending of websockets and I needed to send IRL the information (this when using a stylus)

[austere grotto]

Why would that be a problem? I don't understand why you would use FixedUpdate for this in the first place

[austere grotto]

You should never do network stuff on the main thread.

What does the input system have to do with your websockets stuff

[azure gyro]

It gets the input and then needs to send the x,y position by ws

[austere grotto]

This isn't an input system question really

As with anything you do with networking, it needs to be done on a separate thread

If necessary you can communicate between your threads via something like a ConcurrentQueue

[azure gyro]

Yes I was doing that but the thing is the input is blocking the firing of the other thread

[lethal isle]

I m sorry I explained badly.. The original code got cinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView in the HandleCameraZoom_FieldOfViewmethod. Can I do that of FixedUpdate() Update() is a good pratice to do ?

[azure gyro]

Like its adding everything to the queue and then only sending it after it stops receiving the input but maybe its a skill issue in my end on the queue system and threading thank you either way

[austere grotto]

You can do it wherever you want

[austere grotto]

That Doesn't make sense

[austere grotto]

You would have to show code otherwise we're just guessing

[lethal isle]

allright thanks better to simplify so 🙂

[analog junco]

Hi
I read the documentation of Unity on the system input and I don't really understand what change between the differents action type. Can someone explain me the difference with some examples if it's possible ?

[tropic sorrel]

I'm using new input system. When detecting a click, it goes for "value change" on the buttons I'm checking. It seems to give me like two actions per trigger clicked, one for pressing down, and one for releasing.
I just want one action. I've been trying the different "Action types" in combination with "Initial state check", but can't seem to get it sorted.

Using the recommended method using gui links and:
public void OnChangeWeapon(InputAction.CallbackContext context)

[austere grotto]

Just use an if statement

if (context.performed)

To be understand better what's happening here you can do Debug.Log($"Phase is {context.phase}");

[tropic sorrel]

Yeah I am doing the debug, and it appears twice when using PassThrough, and thrice when using Button ...

I can only find one instance of the Player Input

    {
        if (context.performed) {
            Debug.Log("Attack just pressed once?");
        }
        if (ControlPlayer != null ) {
    //        ControlPlayer.Shoot();
        }
    }

    public void OnChangeWeapon(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.performed) {
            Debug.Log("SWitch weapon pressed once?");
        }
        if (ControlPlayer != null ) {
    //        ControlPlayer.EquipWeapon();
        }
    }```

[tropic sorrel]

This might be the ugliest code I've ever written:

    {
        if (alreadypressed) {
            alreadypressed = false;
        } else {
            if (ControlPlayer != null ) {
                ControlPlayer.Shoot();
            }
            alreadypressed = true;
        }

    }```

[tropic sorrel]

Thanks, your ideas are great, but I couldn't find the actual problem anyway. Doing a workaround for now, will get at it at a later time ... Thanks

[austere grotto]

It will be twice with pass through because pass through always is performed

There's no need for you workaround and ugly code here

Set up a simple Button action and remove ALL interactions and processors, and you can do it with just the single performed check

[tropic sorrel]

When I use Button action it performs 3 times, with PassThrough it performs 2 times

Not using any interactions or processors, just events between the "Player Input" and my input controller

[austere grotto]

Show the code you have

You need the if statement as I mentioned

[tropic sorrel]

Something is really strange with my implementation I think

Should it be possible to have two active Action Maps at the same time?

[austere grotto]

Yes it's possible and normal

[tropic sorrel]

Hmm I deleted all my Input System stuff, and added it again, and now it works just as expected

[livid kiln]

With the new input system the Submit & Cancel buttons work using my custom input actions but with navigation (WASD) it doesn't trigger the event (pic 1) but it works normally for button navigation. How do I make "Navigate" trigger it's event?

[austere grotto]

Your first screenshot has nothing to do with the event system and UI navigation

The PlayerInput component generally only enables one action map at a time though

So that might be your issue

[livid kiln]

It's supposed to show that there is code that's supposed to run when the navigate keys are pressed

[livid kiln]

I only have 2 action maps: "Player Default" (character movement) and "UI Menu." I have it set to switch the current action map when entering a menu state.
The "Confirm" and "Cancel" events trigger as intended so the current action map is UI Menu

[austere grotto]

Your code in the nav function only conditionally logs something. Add an unconditional log

But also, that's a completely separate input action asset isn't it? You're using the generated c# class there

That wouldn't be related to your PlayerInput

[livid kiln]

The "Navigate" action was set to "Pass Through" instead of "Value." It's now fixed. Thanks for the help.

[wild harness]

Hey folks, odd problem here. I want to click on an object and have the camera follow that object around in a unity 2D environment. It works, but when the camera relocates, the mouse cursor is no longer over the object as the screen has shifted. This causes the next Update() call to execute Input.GetMouseButton(0) again on that new location, and immediately de-select the object. I've confirmed that Input.GetMouseButton(0) only executes once when clicking or tapping without the camera being shifted. As this will be a performance heavy mobile game I cannot use the new Input system to warp the mouse over to the new location. Everything I've read is the performance is not production-worthy yet. Any ideas how I might work around this?

[austere grotto]

Where have you read that performance isn't ready yet? Performance is fine for the input system

Anyway mouse cursors are quite rare on mobile devices in the first place so it's weird to be worried about cursor positions anyway

[tulip tartan]

New input system performance is better than older input manager, and has been since it was first introduced.

[wild harness]

There's at least 30 reports of performance being terrible on mobile and VR platforms, some from game studios with launched game product. Extensive discussions with unity devs regarding the performance issues just last month, and no clear identified solution for the excessive processing requirements.

As with most things, perhaps its better now. But with my limited resources I'd rather focus on other things for the time being.

[austere grotto]

Where?

[wild harness]

I didn't save any links to the forum posts and bug reports I was browsing through 😦

[austere grotto]

(again this is academic because your problem is code related anyway)

[wild harness]

If I have time I'll go browsing through them again.

I'm not convinced the mouse warp is a total solution anyways.

[wild harness]

Don't get me wrong, time and resources allowing I'll usually go and benchmark/profile specific things for myself. I spent the morning just browsing through discussions and bug reports and it felt like the new Input system is considerably more powerful, but like most things all those layers make it more suitable for higher end targets. Better to KISS while still learning. I take it you have observed comparable or better performance out of it compared to the legacy system?

[tulip tartan]

There was discussion by unity about whether to remove the legacy system entirely, or rewrite it as a wrapper for the new input because of how much more performant the new one is.

[wild harness]

Could you perhaps link me to that discussion?

[tulip tartan]

I heard it directly from unity employees, so no

[wild harness]

Performance topics sadly tend to be a bit like religion. I see the URP vs BiRP argument crop up often and it is always interesting seeing the sides taken and the different opinion posited by Unity themselves on it. Mobile platforms are damn finicky too which doesn't help.

This isn't exactly what I formed my opinion on from earlier, but just a few minutes here trying to retrace my steps:
Here is a report from 5 days ago reporting slow performance on Switch: https://discussions.unity.com/t/new-input-system-is-slow/1506150/2

This is a lengthy back and forth over the last 2 years with a game studio involved discussing the poor performance. It seemed most abandoned it in favor of other approaches: https://discussions.unity.com/t/why-is-the-new-input-system-so-slow/873099/16

Another performance related issue: https://discussions.unity.com/t/new-input-system-performance/864595/13 the final post has an improvement by 2ms still isn't acceptable?

Discussion from earlier this year on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/18w28ao/3_years_later_how_do_yall_feel_about_the_new/ my takeaway is most enjoy the added capability, but find it difficult to setup and has performance drawbacks still

Bug report about input lag on the new system: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/new-input-system-experiences-1-2-frames-of-input-delay-when-compared-to-the-legacy-input-manager

Deep dive from April on input lag with Android on the new system in Unity 2021 vs 2020 : https://discussions.unity.com/t/input-stutters-android/927902

I certainly have no testing on my own to form an opinion with. Just thought I'd take a look and, seeing some complaints, thought it best to avoid it for now given the type of game I'm working on is all.

Hope that makes sense!

[glossy grove]

I try implement JoyShockLibrary, but sensibility is bad.

[austere grotto]

I have observed approximately zero appreciable performance impact from either input system on any platform at any time.

That doesn't mean it's not there

Just that I've never noticed it

[wild harness]

Understood. Thanks for sharing. I think I have a solution that gets me past this, but if time allows at some point maybe I'll give it a whirl.

[tired bough]

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?
I made input fields to fill out information for something.
I want that information to be sent per email, so I added a button that opens the mobile mail app and the custom inputs are supposed to transfer into a template.
The body doesn’t work, it prints everything like the second picture

[austere grotto]

Looks exactly like the string in the code to me.

Why are you using GameObject fields

[tired bough]

i want the things in the "" to be the template and the gameobjects to be custom inputs

[austere grotto]

You know when you do GameObject.ToString what you get is something like that right?

Shouldn't you be reading the text from your text input fields?

[tired bough]

no i dont know, thats why i'm asking? 🤨

[austere grotto]

GameObject references aren't useful here

You want to reference the InputField or TMP_InputField s that you are using

And read their .text property

Also this is a #📲┃ui-ux question really, not input system

[tired bough]

sry that i dont know where to post a question in all these channels, I'm working with input fields, so i assumed i ask in the input channel

[austere grotto]

Understandable confusion, but this is about the systems that handle input from hardware like keyboard, nice, gamepads etc

[cloud notch]

i have a trouble with input system

i dont know why my scripts dont detect OnMouseEnter OnMouseExit or OnPointerEnter OnPointerExit i dont know what i am doing wrong

[tulip tartan]

I don't believe those methods work with the new input system at all

You could try setting the input you use to "both"

[cloud notch]

i use both btw

[austere grotto]

OnMouseXxx doesn't work with the new system and the OnPointerXxx stuff needs you to have a properly set up event system, input module, and raycaster in the scene

[cloud notch]

i have a raycast right know in the scene

how to setup UI events to make this?

[austere grotto]

What does "I have a Raycast right know in the scene" mean

[cloud notch]

mi camera have a one

[austere grotto]

Graphic raycaster goes on a canvas not on the camera

The camera would get a physics raycaster

[cloud notch]

i fix it but nothing changes,

any message in the console from debug code :I

i'm trying creating a MouseMoveEvent

to fix this problem

works perfectly fine

[austere grotto]

You need all of the mentioned things

[leaden pivot]

Hello, I'm running into a really basic setup issue with InputActions. I've created an InputAction object like so: (and let's just focus on move_n for now)

with my listener class like so:

but neither of these breakpoints are never hit when I press w or 8 (and num lock is on ofc), and I've verified that the SetCallbacks gets called and correctly attaches the callbacks (with my debugger)

at this point I'm sort of suspecting that I'm missing something in the input action object, but I don't see anything that I'm missing in the inspector (there really aren't that many options in the first place)

does anybody know what I might be missing?

[austere grotto]

Debug.Log would be much easier to work with here

Is this script even running? Is the subscription in Start running?

[leaden pivot]

yes, otherwise the breakpoint would not get hit in setcallbacks

[austere grotto]

Is that method part of the interface?

[leaden pivot]

yes, that is the format for the auto-generated interface

SetCallbacks is what calls AddCallbacks, where the actions are actually registered with your custom class that implements the interface defined by your action

like this

[leaden pivot]

I came back after a break and it's because I didn't call Enable on the InputAction object 😭

[remote jackal]

always call Enable on the InputAction object!

[leaden pivot]

evidently

at least that answers how I could handle having a different input object between UI and gameplay

[remote jackal]

sure that's one way! Another is just delegation of the input to the correct input scheme based on game state (e.g.: Gameplay, UI, Cutscene).

[leaden pivot]

ah I see, I haven't looked into those too much but I noticed it in the UI

[remote jackal]

I guess that's the kinda more OG input system way where input is detected inside functions..

[leaden pivot]

I noticed the examples were using the scheme to differentiate hardware

like gamepad vs keyboard

[remote jackal]

funny, I've never noticed these 😆 But that's great

I was talking about this thing here

[leaden pivot]

ohhh I see

what is stopping Player from still listening when you want to switch to UI?

[remote jackal]

some bool, pretty sure 😛

hopefully a List<bool>

[leaden pivot]

I think that's what I was getting at when I mentioned this then

I was sort of thinking of having 2 different action maps and disable the one that isn't currently being used

and yeah if there were more than two I'd use a loop

[remote jackal]

ah, thought u were considering 2 different input systems

[leaden pivot]

my terminology is probably a bit rough at this point

it's all sort of a blur

[thick verge]

how do i read the input of the right stick of the controller? and should i use the new system over the old one?

[austere grotto]

1. Depends on the input system you're using
2. depends on your requirements and your skill level

[thick verge]

guess ill look up the differences between the 2 systems first

[austere grotto]

If you're brand new to Unity you should probably just stick with the old system

[steady walrus]

has anyone actually noticed any slow down from using both input systems on android?

[quaint flax]

This is going to be a super vague question because I haven't been able to debug effectively, but does anyone know some potential causes for a mouse immediately jump to the bottom left of the screen on play? I am using a Virtual mouse for my gamepad controls and it's the only thing I can think of as a potential cause. because the code is setup to disable or enable the physical or virtual mouse depending on what input is currently active. The mouse is anchored to the center of the screen so it's not a matter of the gameobject being off center or improperly anchored

[acoustic meadow]

I'm using the Input System package, I've found the select button isn't detected on MacOS using an Xbox one gamepad

[quartz ledge]

is this the correct way to check if a key is being held?
i feel like its not as its 1000x easier in the old input system

[austere grotto]

You can just check in Update instead of using events

There are multiple correct ways

[timid dagger]

The main advantage of the new Input System is its flexibility (which is especially handy if you want to support multiple different controllers, add some layout, custom binding, input postprocessing, accessibility settings, custom inputs (such as 3D ones) etc.).
If you want to check if it's pressed, then something like if (yourAction.phase == InputActionPhase.Performed) should work. Alternatively, you can use .ReadValue.
I recommend serializing InputActionReference instead of finding Action every time.

[quartz ledge]

because i have this on a gun, and obviously there will be multiple.
so i didnt want to manually assign all in the PlayerInput inspector and have tons of them there.
And with .ReadValue what would i be doing exactly? the things i tried before were also not as simple

[timid dagger]

.ReadValue allows you to read the exact value of the input. It's usually used for analogue values or more complex values (such as Vector2 values), but it can also be used for digital values (such as Button).

[quartz ledge]

alright so i should just replace the .perfomed and .canceled with ReadValue?
what is the value i would be reading anyway. bool?

[timid dagger]

.performed and .canceled are used when you want a method to listen to your input and be always called whenever the condition is met. It's especially good when you want to avoid checking it every frame. .phase is used mostly when inside of some method you need to check if the input is pressed (e.g. when you want to create multiselection with the [Shift] button). .ReadValue is similar to .phase, but is used mostly for analogue values (e.g. if a gamepad stick has a deadzone 0.25f, then it will be performed as long the absolute value is greater than 0.25f, but you might still want to know how big the value is).

ReadValue casts the input value to any format you want. I think it could work with a bool, but it's used mostly for floats and Vector2s.

[quartz ledge]

ah ok, so all sound like they can do it but mainly used for different things.
i guess ill just stick with performed and canceled for now and switch it up later if i need

[analog zenith]

I'm struggling to get MultiplayerEventSystem to work with UI. It just won't send UI input events. I'm not using PlayerInputManager, I'm handling things like gamepad assignment on my own. But even with just one player joined, I can't interact with the UI at all

nvm it just suddenly started working, I did nothing

[cloud notch]

exits a way to call perfomed action everyframe is pressed?

without using update or FixedUpdate

[timid dagger]

You can subscribe to action's callbacks:

• .start to make it call a method every time it becomes pressed
• .performed to make it call a method as long it stays pressed

[cloud notch]

i do it but its only called the first time is pressed not continuous

[timid dagger]

Just tested it out, turns out I'm mistaken. Looks like the difference between .start and .performed lies in input's configuration and .performed might be delayed by interactions (e.g. hold interaction).

When I look at the documentation, I don't see any callback that is being called for the whole duration. 🤔 I suppose you could create a coroutine or something similar during the .start and remove it after receiving the .canceled call.

[cloud notch]

dont looks too good for me, i'm going to use FixedUpdate

[turbid olive]

performed is called every time the value is changed

[turbid olive]

You can either do this, or create an event, which is invoked in Update if the boolean, updated with start and canceled is true. I have answered [here](#archived-code-general message) too

[sage lake]

for some reason when I do
m_PlayerInput.Player.Move.performed += i => m_Input = i.ReadValue<Vector2>();
the value doesn't change to 0 when I let go of my buttons. Any way I can fix that?

like obviously it isn't performed when I don't press anything, but idk how to fix it

or what else to use

[austere grotto]

You would need to subscribe to the canceled event to get 0

I think you're probably better off just reading this in Update instead of using events though

It will be much simpler

E.g. in Update just do:

m_Input = m_PlayerInput.Player.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>();

[sage lake]

oh cool, if that works that is also fine

I'd still like to know for when I want to shoot my projectile later

[austere grotto]

Event based input handling is an option in the new system, it's not a requirement

[sage lake]

but I guess performed would work better there

[sage lake]

yeah, I just had it working beforehand already, but since I can't drag them in I needed to figure it out

[light pawn]

potentially very wacky question, does anyone know if there is a way to like lock out a button from being triggered for a certain time after its triggered

I have an issue where my pause menu has this armor to turn the pages on the menu but the button being pressed on my controller is triggering it multiple times

[austere grotto]

Set it to interactive= false

[fervent tulip]

Hi,i am working in VR using XR interaction toolkit i have made the script to move using sensors for normal object...but where should i attach the script in (XR Orgin) so my inputs woks same as controllers???

[velvet flower]

hello is it normal for screentoworld point of mouse position to detect mouse in scene

[austere grotto]

What do you mean by that

[vague ocean]

Looking for some advice on an asset store package I am developing:

My demo scene uses the input system but its not a strict dependency for the asset to work. I use it to make my demo scene camera controller mobile/touch friendly and handle long-presses easily

The issue is, when someone first imports the asset into a blank project, and installs the input system, then the demo scene appears to not work until the editor is restarted. What can I do about this? I don't want to give new users a frustrating first-experience

[austere grotto]

It's best to make your demo scene work with either input system

Instead of forcing your user to install one, especially for a demo

[vague ocean]

understood, I was just hoping there was a way to make the first install a little more seamless for my demo scene

Reimplementing these features in the old system will be a pain but its probably the best thing to do for users

[austere grotto]

Forcing the install itself is already a bad user experience, IMO

[blissful lodge]

Use two mice to drag objects at the same time --- whats the best way to approach this?

Its for an art installation and not meant to be distributed.
Im on a mac, and I may use a mac or windows machine for presentation.
For reference: using unityeditor 2021.3 atm and a script ("drag object") for single mouse config. But of course I am open to any other setup that works.

I googled around quite a bit and most info I find is quite old and also says its hard to do. Is this implemented to be done natively in Unity now?

[austere grotto]

I think it actually wouldn't be all that difficult in the new input system. It might even mostly work out of the box if you just plug two mice in and use the normal event system IDragHandler-style interaction.

actually i take that back - multiple cursors will definitely not happen out of the box

You might need to use virtual mouse cursors: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.10/manual/UISupport.html#virtual-mouse-cursor-control

And set up a control scheme so the two mice are detected as different players. You might need a similar workaround to this to accomplish that: https://discussions.unity.com/t/multiple-players-on-keyboard-new-input-system/754028/2

It may also require the use of https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.10/manual/UISupport.html#multiplayer-uis

[blissful lodge]

cool, thanks a lot, Ill read up on this. Just a random thought before I go: could it be possible to have Unity/the OS think that the mice are hand controllers of some sort (like VR hand controllers etc), or 2 analog sticks of a game pad? And then give these inputs one cursor each. Even a hardware hack will do for me in this specific situation.

[prime salmon]

Hey, I think I might be having an input system issue if anyone can help

{
    [SerializeField] private InputActionAsset PlayerControls;
    public InputAction interactAction;
    public InputAction moveAction;
    public InputAction jumpAction;
    public InputAction sprintAction;
    public InputAction lookAction;
    public InputAction lockedinAction;

    private void Awake()
    {
        PlayerControls = this.GetComponent<PlayerInput>().actions;
        interactAction = PlayerControls.FindActionMap("Movement").FindAction("Interact");
        moveAction = PlayerControls.FindActionMap("Movement").FindAction("Move");
        jumpAction = PlayerControls.FindActionMap("Movement").FindAction("Jump");
        sprintAction = PlayerControls.FindActionMap("Movement").FindAction("Sprint");
        lookAction = PlayerControls.FindActionMap("Movement").FindAction("Look");
        lockedinAction = PlayerControls.FindActionMap("Movement").FindAction("LockedIn");
    }
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        interactAction.Enable();
        moveAction.Enable();
        jumpAction.Enable();
        sprintAction.Enable();
        lookAction.Enable();
        lockedinAction.Enable();
    }
    private void OnDisable()
    {
        interactAction.Disable();
        moveAction.Disable();
        jumpAction.Disable();
        sprintAction.Disable();
        lookAction.Disable();
        lockedinAction.Disable();
    }
}

{
    public CharacterController cc;
    public float speed, sprintSpeed, crouchSpeed, SlidingSpeed, OG_SlideSpeed, mouseSens;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;
    public float jumpHeight;

    public Transform groundCheck;
    public float groundDistance = 0.4f;
    public LayerMask groundMask;

    public bool isGrounded;

    public GameObject player;
    private InputManager inputManager;

    Vector2 moveInput;
    Vector3 currentMovement;

    private void Awake()
    {
        this.transform.position = new Vector3(95.6f, 3f, 109f);
        this.inputManager = GetComponent<InputManager>();

        OG_SlideSpeed = SlidingSpeed;

        this.inputManager.moveAction.performed += context => moveInput = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        this.inputManager.moveAction.canceled += context => moveInput = Vector2.zero;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);
        BaseMovement();
    }
   

    void BaseMovement()
    {
        float speedMultiplier = this.inputManager.sprintAction.ReadValue<float>() > 0 ? sprintSpeed : speed;

        float verticalSpeed = this.moveInput.y * speed * speedMultiplier;
        float horizontalSpeed = this.moveInput.x * speed * speedMultiplier;

        Vector3 horizontalMovemenet = new Vector3(horizontalSpeed, 0, verticalSpeed);
        horizontalMovemenet = this.transform.rotation * horizontalMovemenet;

        JumpAndGravity();

        this.currentMovement.x = horizontalMovemenet.x;
        this.currentMovement.z = horizontalMovemenet.z;

        cc.Move(this.currentMovement * Time.deltaTime);
    }

    void JumpAndGravity()
    {
        if(cc.isGrounded)
        {
            if(this.inputManager.jumpAction.triggered)
            {
                this.currentMovement.y = jumpHeight;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            this.currentMovement.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;```

I've all 3 scripts because I believe its having to coorelate with all of them, my issue is i cannot find where.

Player 1 is pulling the camera from player 2 but is still able to move without being able to look around, while player 2 is showing the correct camera and can look around but cannot move.

[austere grotto]

This sounds like it's almost entirely related to however you're getting references to the camera objects and CharacterController objects which object is assigned to which.

What do you mean by "Player 1 is pulling the camera from player 2"?

[prime salmon]

in the video I sent, the player one (the left side of the screen), whenever player 2, uses player 2's camera, but whenever i check it out in the hierarcy it says its still using the correct camera

[austere grotto]

Also:

    [SerializeField] private Quaternion lastCameraRotation; // To store camera rotation when lock-on is active

transform.Rotate(lastCameraRotation.x, lastCameraRotation.y, lastCameraRotation.z);```

This is NOT how quaternions work

at all

Oh i didn't notice there was a video

[prime salmon]

You're good

[prime salmon]

Yeah, I need to redo some code again.

[austere grotto]

It's also odd that one of the player objects seems to be in the scene to start with, and another one is a clone

[prime salmon]

I have one in the beginning to just have. its in the scene, where as the other one is not

The other one is created by pressing a button or a key on another keyboard

[austere grotto]

That could be part of the issue though - since the playerinputmanager isn't creating the first one

[prime salmon]

It's cloning the player prefab game object

[austere grotto]

Is it cloning a prefab? Or is it cloning the one from the scene?

[prime salmon]

I can try that, but Im not for sure considering it wasnt doing it before

[prime salmon]

It's cloning a prefab

[prime salmon]

I did discover that whenever it makes a new object, it has issues. I deleted the player off of the screen and the player input manager create the first character. It made it work to a certain degree. Its marking my mouse and keyboard separate from each other which could be the issue

[austere grotto]

yeah you'll need to set up your control schemes properly

so the PlayerInputManager can properly group devices to players.

[prime salmon]

Just fixed the control schemes

Now just having the camera and movement issue

When its just single player, player one cannot move either, just look around

[austere grotto]

I would do some standard debugging techniques

add logs in your code and make sure the input is being read properly

and go from there

[prime salmon]

Already have been, thats how I narrowed it down to the input system issue

Im back to doing that again to see if I can try to figure out the issue

I appreciate the help though

[prime salmon]

Sadly I have not figured it out yet, if anyone would be willing to try helping that'd be great!

Did a debug for the moveInput and its not being recorded, did a debug to make sure the moveAction was correctly assigned and it stated it was

New video:

[chrome walrus]

I am wondering, how you are moving the camera. Like the input is coming from one mouse, right?

Like, you have your inputactions and somehow the lookaction is triggered, but where do you separate the input for player 1 and 2?

[arctic estuary]

when i'm editing the input actions and save them, a script gets created with the same name. due to this my project instantly gives tons of errors due to 'the bindings already existing' however none of the new inputs work, the old ones are fine, but i added a new arrow keys movement and it doesn't use that.

for my main input at the moment im using a midi input device with the MINIS plugin from keijiro and the drywetmidi asset from the asset store.

does anybody know what causes this and how i can solve it?

[chrome walrus]

Did you move the created cs script?

I guess you did, because Unity will then create a new cs script with the same name and therefore you going to have two versions of the same input action class giving you this error I assume

[arctic estuary]

i'll have to check that out, i keep deleting the script, but if it already exists then i need to find it. one sec

[arctic estuary]

that was it

testing rn

[arctic estuary]

you my friend, are a hero

flawless

[prime salmon]

The camera is being moved from a playerLook script. The input should be coming from one source considering I made it this.gameobject, but it migth notbe

Also, just woke up sorry about the late response

[prime salmon]

Whenever the game creates a new player, does it not make a new clone of the existing scripts?

[chrome walrus]

If the new scripts rely on the same input, it does not matter how many scripts connect to it. Thats why I was wondering, how you distinguish the inputs for each player. Could you explain what inputs you are using to test, that two players should work separately?

[prime salmon]

Already fixed it.

It was a executing issue

[chrome walrus]

ah, good to know

[prime salmon]

The input manager's awake functiom was being called after the player movment and the player look causing the player look and mkvment to not hold any value for any of thr inputs connected to the input manager

[still garnet]

I need some help with animators. I have a character set it up like this for a multiplayer game. The mesh is inside the astronaut002. And i put the animator inside the astronaut002, and the rig inside of it. The animation playes correctly, but the character goes up whenever i press play, did i do something worng ?

And just the mesh goes up, everything else stays on the correct place

[austere grotto]

The Animator is moving it there

[still garnet]

But how can i change that, if i set up the animator in the astronaut.test, where the character controler is, it works perfectly

[austere grotto]

Well the main way would be to fix the animations to not be in the air.
But otherwise you can move the child objects around so that the place the animator puts the model is on the ground

i.e. by adding another object between the animator and the model that is offset downwards

[still garnet]

I downloaded the animation through mixamo, gonna download another one and see if it changes something

I created another empty object and set the offset downards and it works now, thanks man

[open imp]

How do i make a player tap a button rather than hold it down or at least add a delay to the action? I have a fire event to use an item, but right now the player presses the button and it uses all 3 at once, making it useless

This is the code i have right now

which is invoked on the method that needs the input

[austere grotto]

You need to write a small state machine basically - because it's impossible to tell if the tap is going to be a hold or not until later

WaitingForInitialInput
InitialInputReceived
ReleasedBeforeTimer | Still held down
Tap Action Hold Action

[open imp]

Is there a tool to do that with the input sytem

[austere grotto]

no

[open imp]

Ah

[austere grotto]

the input system can't disambiguate this for you

not currently at least

You could proably write a custom interaction to do this - but it's not built in.

[open imp]

What do the interactions do?

I tried using the tap one which you think would work but it does nothing

[austere grotto]

they customize how and when the started/canceled/performed events happen

well it will work to detect taps

it won't work to exclude other things from happening as well

[open imp]

Oh i see

How do i exclude the other things from happenign then?

I'd rather use that than write a state machine if i could

[austere grotto]

Writing the state machine is the way to exclude things.

You can obviously write it in a less formal way, but it's going to amount to a state machine

[open imp]

Think i've bodged a solution

[austere grotto]

Don't be intimidated. "State machine" in this context just means Update and a bunch of bools and if statements.

[open imp]

I just added a fire rate to the code, which seems to work for now

[open imp]

I'll try and update it to this later ty