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Button combo using buttons from both controllers
Beginner developer here, creating my own input actions where I have to press the Left trigger and the Right Primary Button (A) together to do something.
In my Input Actions Editor, under the custom action SwitchMode, I added a binding with one modifier. Left trigger for binding and RightPrimaryButtonPressed for modifier. For testing, my function is as follows:
void OnSwitchMode(){
print("Mode Switched");
}
I do not get an output on the Console. However when I had both binding and modifier on the same controller (Left trigger, Left primarybutton or the right equivalent), an input is registered and I get a message on the Console.
Why is that? And is there any way to get around this?
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I did not fully understand your question.
The way I do that kind of thing is use a OnLeftTrigger() and OnRightTirgger() as separate input actions.
Set a LeftTriggerIsPressed boolean when performed and un-sets it on canceled in OnLeftTrigger.
Set a RightTriggerIsPressed boolean if performed and un-sets it on canceled in OnRightTrigger.
Then in both the OnLeftTrigger() and OnRightTirgger() I have
... if (LeftTriggerIsPressed && RightTriggerIsPressed) {
DoMyThing();
}
...
Right that makes sense, but why can't I use modifiers provided by the Input Actions Editor?
Usually for button combinations I would just use modifiers, e.g. below OnCombo is called when both shift and space are pressed
This doesn't seem to be working when i have a binding from my right meta quest 2 controller and a modifier from the left one. They're both under XR Controller in the binding path so I thought there wouldn't be a problem.
I'd like to know why and is there any other way to get around it other than your mentioned method.
I had wanted when the 4 (A, B, X, Y) buttons were pressed in different combinations to do things. I could never get it to work. I had assumed it could not (Implementation did not support it), or poor documentation from Unity.
