I’ll just get right into it. I personally really enjoy the new input system. Its robust. The code doesnt rely on update methods constantly checking for input. You dont have to develop logic for different devices. Its over-all a lot better than the legacy input system to me. Yes it…

In this article I want to cover a situation which pressing the interact button and holding the interact button do 2 different things to the same object. This is a little bit different than the Zone Type interactions where 1 zone can be a press while the other is a…

This game has a drone in it. After blowing up the car an d hacking the laptop, you can fly a drone around. Currently this is being handled with the legacy input system. Lets convert it! First step is to create a new Action Map for the drone controls. The…

In this game, the player is basically tasked with interacting with objects in the scene. When these objects are interacted with, the game proceeds. This article will cover how to make the E button and the West button on game pads handle different KINDS of interactions whether they are simple…

In this article I’ll go over my process for converting player movement from the legacy input system to the new input system in Unity. If you’ve made it this far, surely you have an old project or 2 with the legacy input system driving all your inputs. Open it up…

In previous articles I’ve gone over Interactions briefly. Actions can have several different interactions and you can code out logic based on the type of interaction. Understanding this requires a basic understanding of that fact that Interactions have a set of different phases they can go through in response to…

You’ve probably played around with some of the action types and control types already. In this article I want to demystify the Axis Control Type. I see a lot of stuff online where folks are trying to use ReadValue<> and look for a Vector2 type when they use a 1D…

In this article I’m going to get a little experimental. You’ll see a slight change in the look of the application I’ve been working on. Thats just so I can showcase how to use the New Input System in a way that creates a charge beam functionality. Lets go! So…

In this article I’ll cover a basic set up when scripting the functionality for the actions we set up in the previous article. My goal is to simple print a message to the console when the correct key bindings have been pressed. Lets start with the Fire action. First, I…