How to Easily Use the NEW Enhanced Input Action System in Unreal Engine 5.1

Hello guys, in this quick and simple tutorial we are going to learn how to use the new Enhanced Input system in Unreal Engine 5.1
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[@t.c1987]

hey bro wanted to ask you how would you implement keyboard bind voice commands for example in ready or not you press the f key and they shout an order at the enemy such as get on the floor would be great for your take on this keep up the good work

[@FlyingLotus]

Ahhhh it was so much easier before. They love to complicate things😂

[@GorkaGames]

Haha, it is true that it was simpler before, but now it is more efficient for the long-term

[@MastermindAtWork]

Just like Unity. Why complicate something that worked well originally?

[@GorkaGames]

@@MastermindAtWork Do you mean the new Input system in Unity?

[@MastermindAtWork]

@@GorkaGames Yes

[@educate3d]

@@MastermindAtWork well it complicates basic actions, but simplifies more complex actions. This also is alot easier than having to continuously open project settings to add or change input mappings

[@DirectionGaming]

i'm having issue... Sprint forward - "Shift+W" Jump - "SpaceBar" Input action Jump is not Getting Registered when "Shift+W"+SpaceBar" pressed for Jump while sprinting. so how should i add Jump Action while Sprinting.

[@matamare-zs7ui]

How is this better than before? Seems like it's needlessly complicated 😕

[@PirateDion]

Not too long ago fought about getting the engine to recognize a right click vs a right mouse button held and this just invalidated all that effort with the triggers and modifiers and I love that for it. Still figuring out the basics but was one of those problems that seemed easy on paper then implementation became messy.

[@GorkaGames]

Yeah absolutely, now with the modifiers we dont need to make our own custom systems to modify the input data, and its simpler. However, it still can be a bit messy yeah.

[@GordonSeal]

The new Enhanced Input System is a mess: 1. Allowing the players to remap them ingame requires you to build a dedicated save-game system just for the Enhanced Inputs, because the inputs are data-files now and thus reset every time the game starts. 2. The values in the enhanced inputs do NOT reset, meaning axis mapping (e.g. Move Forward & Move Backward) requires you to set the value of the input to zero again after "Cancelled" or "Completed". 3. You have to create all these data assets, generating more possibilities for bugs to appear - since Unreals file dependencies are prone to errors. 4. Creating inputs takes way longer than it did with the old system. Equally changing your inputs takes way longer, as you now have to go through all these files instead of having them all cleanly in one place. 5. I personally don't like all that logic in the new inputs ticking in the background, although the impact is rather negligible. I also don't like the necessity to cast for adding input contexts (as I don't use the controller for inputs), but that's just me. 6. Switching input methods requires more work now and is way more convoluted than it did before. Before all an input switch took was a branch after the input function, wheres now you not only have to handle all these extra input data files, (cast and) add the input context, but you also have to recreate all this extra logic for the inputs. 7. Prototyping with the Enhanced Input system takes way longer than it did before. Wanna just quickly set up a project to test out something? Well now you have to create all these input data assets for it to work. It's also way harder for a team to prototype, as now everyone has to learn and completely understand the new Enhanced Input system, whereas before everyone could understand & edit the inputs by just looking at the Project Settings page. There is nothing you couldn't do with the old system, Epic should have just expanded and overhauled the old system with new options, instead of deprecating a good, working system.

[@V-A-N-G-U-A-R-D]

Completely agree. With some work, I'd bet you can do everything in the new system with the old input system. (Hold down, combinations... I have those already!) I want the lumen, foliage, and reflection advantage of 5.1, but depreciating the input system is the main thing keeping me from it.

[@ifranebrunet9153]

Completely agree also, I've seen dumb engine stuff since 1990 but this one is a winner. Unreal 5 is marvelous, in some click you can do great things, but it's too often over-complicated and under-documented for some basic stuff.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Unity did the exact same. Take something simple that works well and swap it for something utterly cryptic, overly complicated, barely documented, and poorly explained. Something that just breaks old code, doesn't work as expected and drives even experienced developers utterly nuts. Why? Because f-ck you. Very disappointed to see Unreal make a similar mess of it. You hook everything up on the blueprint graph, as described in tutorials, run your game and absolutely nothing happens. Meanwhile the tutorial has a fireworks display and Gears 6. So what went wrong on your end and why doesn't it work for you? You'll never know and life's too short to try and find out.

[@jamesbrady1930]

im trying to do a spaceship 2D side scroller. i Can't get it to move up and down along Z axis. I have the camera set to othrographic as it should be. and when i am in perspective it works along Y, however Z does not work. there are no clear tutorials on how to do up and down movements. I got left to right working with my A and D keys, W and S don't work with Z axis for up and down.

[@escorpianoyqueee]

I'm confused, I used to create input mappings and assign them from a custom Player controller, then move the actions to the pawn. Does this means that the player controller is not needed anymore?... The whole example is applied in the Pawn, what if you want to change the controller to be AI?

[@xTriplexS]

You still can and should do it in PlayerController class. You'll just have to declare local variables of a pawn and a character when needed to have access to functions

[@roi_bidoushka5531]

Hey, i add input mapping context but all my keyboard touchs doesn't responce on play

[@vandermannmusic]

Got any ideas on how to use this with UMG? I'm trying to toggle an inventory UI with TAB. I have it implemented on the playercontroller working, but can't find a way for it to ignore the UI only input mode. Which basically means I can tab into the UI but not out of it. Can't find any docs on it. So many missing or incomplete docs for all the new systems in ue5 tbh.

[@GorkaGames]

Yeah, so basically I think that because you are switching the Input mode to UI Only, the TAB key which is a "Game" type of input doesnt trigger. So I would suggest to use "Game And UI Input mode" and just disable the player`s movement while in the menu

[@vandermannmusic]

@@GorkaGames Might try that. Saw a video of someone changing the mapping context to one specific for the menu. This way the main controls were disabled/not existing in the current context. Will try it after xmas.

[@GorkaGames]

@@vandermannmusic Yeah actually that is a great option to do

[@cxvcnxbzfdhjlaks]

Are there any good tutorials for input mapping contexts and handling multiple UI tabs? I have 6 tabs I switch between and I'm stuck to creating up to 8 different IA s per tab. To control the different tab objects and their children that all fundamentally do the same thing - cycle through menus, select an object, use an item etc. Like Can I just create 8 IAs, and disable them on non active tabs by using contexts? Is that a thing yet?

[@mattmurphy7030]

That's the point of the contexts yes

[@woxi4899]

i dont get this system at all, all i wanted was MMB a keybind, theres a 100 menues, options and drop down things going on. it feels like i went from a horse pulled carriage to a fighter jet, and yet i cant find the horse, by which i mean where do i bind the MMB as a keybind, so that i can make it do stuff in a blueprint later

[@KudeKube]

I'd really like a tutorial about the modifiers and triggers.

[@GorkaGames]

great to know! I have planned making one soon. It is pretty confusing, so I will try to cover them!

[@Glare108]

@@GorkaGames yeah, a tutorial would be much appreciated, I'm still learning and I was stumped on what a scalar modifier could even do, chatGPT gave me some general advice on what they did in UE4, and other games, which probably identical, but still a little foggy on them. The best I can say about them is that you can adjust the speed of your character based on your input, as well as maybe something like adjusting the sensitivity of the input.

[@nobodyimportant4778]

I'm just trying to figure out how to feed analog data into your movements so that when you move with a controller, it doesn't lock you into 8 predefined directions like in dark souls 2, but actually respects the exact angle you wanted to go.

[@mentaltreason]

How would I have an input do three actions accordingly like hold, double tap, and a single press? Would have to make three different input for the button to have it work?

[@GorkaGames]

yeah exactly, you would need 2 different Input Actions all added to the collection, and each of them have a different modifier

[@StianF]

What is happening between 9:01 and 9:48? "About the axis: you can see that we have two values over here that we have" X and Y, and both can be -1 and +1, sure, and you open the action mapping to show that the value type is "basically using the Axis1D float or the Axis2D vector". "Just outputting more stuff, ok?". "And basically, digital bool is just, if you press a key it will just trigger whatever it has to do"? I would like to know how the movement-input gets translated from WASD to a vector/vector2D, as you state, but you didn't show the mapping context so we still have no idea how to pass W A S D as x:1, x:-1, y:1, y:-1 :(

[@islandonlinenews]

Gorka, how do I restore player controls after possession of vehicle?

[@zeltparker]

How can I stop double input? If I type the E button multiple times, the animation restarts and I basically crawl across the floor like a creature haha. I tried making a Bool variable called IsRolling. So it follows in this code: InputActionRoll>IsRollingBranch>TRUE>SetIsRolling to off IsRollingBranch>FALSE>PlayAnimMontage>SetIsRolling to on. This does create a delay to stop the input but if done at the right time, will still allow double input

[@lmeier48]

I have to make one by one before put in colection? how can i do similar thing for a drivable car?

[@duxart]

Great lesson! Can you tell us about the new GAS modular system?

[@GorkaGames]

thanks! I actually havnt experimented with it yet, but I will and I`ll try to make a tutorial about it!

[@mattmurphy7030]

@@GorkaGames Good luck, it's a doozy

[@Ruebler1]

Does this mean we have to recode old movement code or is this like a second option to choose and the other code still works?

[@GorkaGames]

If you upgrade your project the old inputs will still work. And if you always want to use the old system, you can actually disable the enhanced one in project settings. So there will be no impact

[@Ruebler1]

@@GorkaGames Ah okay, thats nice. Cause I already got some movement that took very long to do

[@educate3d]

For old stuff no, but from what I understand., moving forward use the new system. they will phase out the old system eventually

[@jordancash80]

@@GorkaGames How do you disable enhanced input in a new project?

[@GarDjinn]

Anybbody any idea if this works for like ship models rather than persons

[@mattmurphy7030]

I added a mapping context at runtime in C++, but none of the input actions are running. Any ideas?

[@fidus5016]

Could do you continue this tutor pliase!Thank you for introducing!

[@rst4m]

Please tell me how to implement InputTouch [Moved] in the new input system.

[@kfirkfir]

Fought hard to integrate this system the first time, wish this video came sooner :D worth showing the C++ way of doing it too, it is much harder

[@GorkaGames]

yeah it is pretty hard to figure out how it works. I still haven't tested it out in ++ yet, I will investigate it, hopefully it wont be a big hustle

[@AliBounds]

Awesome video

[@GorkaGames]

thanks man!

[@jesseyules]

Thank you for your concise walk through. :)

[@lakshaysingh5132]

Can we map UI buttons as well? or do i need to map them to the action using the old way

[@dimokol]

Did you find an aswer?

[@lakshaysingh5132]

@@dimokol I don't know if we should do it like this but it worked for me. I was developing a game for android so i created enhanced input like described in the video then i created touch interface in which you can map ui to keyboard keys. So when i touch the ui button on screen it actually is equivalent to pressing a key on the keyboard so now my game works on both pc and android. hope it helps you...

[@dimokol]

@@lakshaysingh5132 ok interesting thanks for the response! :)

[@Losmhi]

How to make duration of any input, like when is started and one second after autosticly cancel it

[@geden1717]

Please, i would like to find how to advance my character with the letter Z (i'm french and i use AZERTY), how i could modify it with the newversion of Unreal Engine ? :/ and use Q for move to the left..

[@GorkaGames]

You can open the Input collection, and in the movement input action replace the w with z and so on

[@geden1717]

@@GorkaGames Yes I managed to find after post my message aha, thank you 😊👌

[@peter486]

How do you set up set up a roll macro on the same button forward , doube tap forward roll?

[@GameDevAraz]

use triggers

[@TheCatMurgatroyd]

Could anyone pls explain to me how to deactivate a key that i want to reactivate in a trigger? Think walking into trigger and pressing key

[@kendarr]

Is it possible to add it to another blueprint? I'm having a hard time doing that.

[@DarkaniaWorks]

Mee too. Did you find a way? I tried copy/pasting the initialization from the begin play in my new blueprint but to no result. :(

[@kendarr]

@@DarkaniaWorks yeah! So, on you character, duplicate the node that loads the input, and add your own, now on your other blueprint on event begin play you add a note called enable input, and use get character controller (or something like that character pawn or character controller) that will enable that blueprint to use your input

[@Kein_Alias]

Hey, nice one! & Keep it Up! :) Can You Check Combo & Chorded Action in 5.1? For some reason its not working for me.

[@heitoralimo]

thanks friend!

[@DronX_]

6:52 the part I was looking for

[@GorkaGames]

great Im glad I could help!

[@snowshinobi1142]

Are you interested in covering PaperZD topics?

[@deunank]

Thanks. I finally stopped putting off understanding enhanced inputs. Explained well!

[@yashstreamin2826]

thank you

[@jorgenpetersson]

can you also show drop items

[@MaidenheadPk]

What if we're not using the third person game mode?

[@THExRISER]

Thank you!

[@justinputten6005]

so now iknow how to add a print string. when i pick up items? thought it was also to implement running in the character. great way to learn from you, i appreciate that! hope to learn. 2 days busy with ue5 and so happy about it!

[@just_HAZEN]

bro why is your ui text so small. as a newbie, with somewhat poor eyesight i can barely follow along

[@NazzarenoGiannelliCG]

Thanks for the great intro to this new system. How can I invert direction and manage intensity of one of the key? For example I am trying to invert Look axis, but I cannot understand how to do it with this enhanced system.

[@NazzarenoGiannelliCG]

Responding to myself after a few minutes: If you need to invert movement or look direction just Negate X instead of the default Y for example for the IA_Look action under the Default context.

[@LucianoBuffo]

I have set up all, but no input received 😢

[@love.society]

thank you! saved me some hours

[@GameDevAraz]

hi, my axis always reads 0, whats issue?

[@GameDevAraz]

i figured it out. i was using a modifier to "hold" to get constant input, but the thing is, that, axis input give constant input on "trigger" output, so i just had to use trigger instead of ongoing, and i also removed modifiers and triggers, since i dont need, them, you can pick your axis and typically depending on the virtual joystick your using, you can choose left 2d axis thumb-stick or right, in mapping contex

[@UnknownEX0]

Aye man “adding mapping context” doesn’t pop up for me😢

[@b.florends]

Why my BP_ThirdPersonController is empty?

[@GorkaGames]

have you created a new third person template project?

[@DKBgamedev]

when i right click to add an input, there is not an input option

[@TheMenOfMma]

Bro same i cant find a solution to this

[@bryanswaggbeast4594]

nah this is waaay, more complex.

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[@CabalisOrder]

everything seems to be allright, but it doesn't work :[

[@ForeverNils]

5:42 always get "cast failed" (

[@Jandycon]

IA Enhanced, only fires once, it doesnt have consume input anymore in 5.3, gosh!

[@RickHenderson]

This was perfect, thanks.

[@GorkaGames]

my pleasure!

[@user-sq9xi6pz3l]

что ты хотел сделать? Непонятно. И где результат?

[@user-sq9xi6pz3l]

где результат?

[@danielandchristinemandry4881]

Someone using your community has stolen 50.00 from us for the thing you explain in your KZbin video.we are both elderly and disabled.the took my info from my cardonline and purchased this enhanced thing.can you help bring this horrible person to accountability. Do you have records. My next step is to go to cyber crimes of FBI. Then I'll have to let them know about your KZbin

[@AliziaKaline]

One of the worst system they made, absolutely horrible. How to take a super simple and easy to use system and change it into a nightmare.

[@MrRofoMinecraft]

First

[@GorkaGames]

😀💪

[@wildricknarcissot6031]

Very good content my friend as always 😊👍

[@sleepyjoe5380]

Thanks for you effort, but you are not very clear on many basic issue...... firstly slow down

[@kitlrgames]

[@GorkaGames]

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[@greengamerguy623]

DOESN'T WORK IN 5.2 CLIENT HAS NO CONTROL PLEASE REDO

[@greengamerguy623]

DOESN'T WORK IN 5.2 CLIENT HAS NO CONTROL PLEASE REDO

[@LtVax27]

search: Creating Character Movement With The New Enhanced Axis Mappings In Unreal Engine 5 (Tutorial), I was also missing that file.

[@greengamerguy623]

DOESN'T WORK IN 5.2 CLIENT HAS NO CONTROL PLEASE REDO