How To Hold 'E' To Interact Using The New Enhanced Action Mappings In Unreal Engine 5.1+ (Tutorial)

[@OweenVRO]

I spent 30 mins with your old tutorial on this, tried to figure it out with the new system only to realize you're 5 steps ahead giving us an amazing updated tutorial. 10/10 Works perfectly. Similar to how Matt did the rotation on his outdated version of this, you could add 2 float variables for "Open Position" and "Close Position", get them from the variables tab and drag and connect to the lerp in DoorBP

[@corbin9079]

This is great! I'd love to see more with the new action mappings!

[@MattAspland]

Will do!

[@krzysztofbogdanowicz4543]

It works !!! I have big request if you could show how to make such interactions with mouse click and "mouse look" tracing, not keayboard and box collisions. In more complex objects with a few interactive components close to each other precise "mouse look" helps to select one interaction. Using one mouse click for many blueprints instead of many mapped keyboard letters is more convinient.

[@schmutz06]

went through many of your tutorials today. Learned a lot, thanks.

[@TheMetea11]

Look who's here 👀

[@MrRuck]

Nice tutorial. However one crucial thing is missing imo: In your example you want to open the door when standing in the trigger and finishing the Interaction Wait period. In that case it would be possible to start the Wait period and just run into the trigger when it is about to finish. That would make the waiting period kind of useless. While holding there needs to be a check if you are still in the trigger zone.

[@StevenDiLeo]

Fire as always Matt.

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

I love when u use ur minimal code techniques

[@aleca8910]

Thank you, Matt. I migrated my project to this new system and found out some differences. The old input system updates every bind axis function on tick, even if those axes were 0.0 (no input). This new system only does it if there is an input.

[@MattAspland]

Yep, it is much more efficient

[@OptiJ]

thanks so much for this video. i am new to game dev and this helped me out so much. i will definitely be checking out more of your content. keep up the great work.

[@sauravbhagat4150]

Thank you for this.

[@yZempX]

Could you do a simple tutorial on the chorded action and combo triggers? The others are pretty simple, but i still haven't wrapped my head around that one, and there aren't many tutorials out there since it just dropped. I would appreciate :P

[@3BEEZ]

Try searching using Lyra Game template, its been used in there since 5.0 dropped

[@opiumbermerzic8981]

Crystal Clear mate! Thanks a lot for this, we can now animate any object we want :)

[@TheWeeky]

Very weird, followed you click for click and the input doesn't work, its also set as default in Input p[roject settings

[@peterjohnson8570]

How would you create a progress bar that appears in 3D space on the door and shows the progress of your action? I'd expect the progress bar to be dynamic/reusable so if other actions have different durations, it could still be used.

[@Echo8Studios]

Great video, but wouldn’t ‘GetOverlappingActors’ be a bad idea performance wise? This would loop through ALL actor objects which can be costly to loop through if i’m not mistaken…

[@SergeSmile]

hi Matt! Can you make a working combination of keys in the Enhanced Action Mappings? Something like Ctrl+key or Shift + key or Alt+... Thanks for tutorials!

[@snowshinobi1142]

i am curious if there is a different way to do this so triggering simple things like dialogue is only a tap E while collecting an item is Hold "E"

[@bronzeadventures772]

Thats awesome! Does anyone know how can we do progress bar reflecting the Triggered seconds so we can see how long we need to have the button pushed down? Thank you!

[@paul7511]

I'm also interested by that.

[@kenalpha3]

Wow a year later and no one has added a solution. When I watch old YT vids, I go thru the comments and try to answer other people's questions. But for this BPI to Widget, I need the answer. (There is probably a free asset or YT tutorial that does this. But without knowing which, it's too hard to find.)

[@niFallon]

But this sets the interaction time to 2 seconds for everything, right? How would I approach this if I wanted to have different hold times for different interactions? Say opening a chest takes 5 seconds instead of the 2 seconds for opening a door. Is there a way to update the Enhanced Action Mapping in real time maybe when you look at another interactable item?

[@kenalpha3]

+1 remind me

[@ATomCzech]

And insteaf of interface is also possible to use Actor Components

[@arthurlavooy2029]

Thanks for this. I'm a total noob, but I've already managed to create a sliding and a rotating door with your previous UE5 tutorial. I've a small question -> Does the box collision you are creating also turns/moves with the door movement? Mine seems to do that, but I don't want that to happen.

[@MattAspland]

Hey, that’s great to hear! To fix that issue however, you’d want to make sure your box collision isn’t patented to your door static mesh, and when rotating the door, you are only rotating the static mesh, not the whole blueprint. Hope that helps. If you need further assistance feel free to message me on discord or email :)

[@begolu9907]

Hello sir, how about the combine button, ex: right click + E button, can the tutorial you teach be used to make it? Thank u

[@johnheavenly3552]

Awesome!

[@furrybproductions]

Thank you!

[@MattAspland]

My pleasure!

[@boristrendafilov2243]

If i have like 3-4 weapons and i am overlapping all how can i make it to pick up the one i want and maybe can it highlight the one i am going to pick ?

[@kenalpha3]

You could add a node to check for the closest one to your Player, or perhaps closest one to your mouse. I dont know the exact details. But that is the logic other games use. And in the same code, when the closest is detected, have an Outline Mat/effect play on the object, so the user knows which is selected. I bought a Market asset that does this. But havent used it to see the code details.

[@MartKart8]

I'm actually rewatching an old tutorial of yours that uses the interact button for ladders, the only issue I have is since the character I'm using is a different size, they collide with the box Collison to early and begin climbing in the air and seem be able to move left and right.

[@MattAspland]

You should be able to resize the collision box to better fit your character's size

[@3BEEZ]

Brilliant

[@PacmParabellum]

Hey, I want to implement a free looking camera. I know your video about it, but it don't work with the new Enhanced Action Mappings. Maybe you know a quick answer? I did the same thing as you in your previous video.

[@vekethegamer3786]

Is there a way to cancel an input actions trigger?

[@evechannel8076]

Hi mat, do you know how to make door shaking? Like enemy try open the locked door by force and the door is shaking. I think it's really good for horror game but I can't find the tutorial for this 🙏

[@wolfe9173]

Using Enhanced Input I have created a IA_Interact enhanced mapping, then over an interactable object I have it say "Press To Interact" but how can I reference the currently bound key do you know? I've been trying and can't get it to work, I'll get IA_Interact and try to convert it to attach to a format text box that says; "Press {BUTTON} To Interact" but no matter how I try and convert it my engine/game crashes.. Any help would be super appreciated!

[@kenalpha3]

+1 remind me

[@uchiha_madara9214]

thansk so very educational

[@sayayuuki127]

Hi Matt, can the enhanced input tell if the player held the input vs pressing it? For example if I pressed the space bar I jump, but if I hold it I run. Can you make that using the enhanced input?

[@ejazahmad9189]

You're great

[@sherbang7076]

i havent yet checked upon this, interesting and if say, i have a set of events destined for locomotion and another set of events for driving, on the same buttons, how should i'd go for it in UE5 ?

[@MattAspland]

It would be something similar, I plan on doing another video soon covering this. The below video might help a little in the meantime. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pImtpouLrbaZl5o

[@fleurbird]

Oh, i didn't know they changed that

[@MattAspland]

Yeah some interesting changes

[@rifat.ahammed]

Great

[@howdy.3D]

I am trying to add this code to a project made in 5.03 - there are no existing action inputs as you mentioned in the beginning of the video. Print string function does not work leading me to believe I need to start a fresh file in order for this functionality to work. Am I incorrect?

[@pxra3491]

make sure you have enhanced input plugin enabled

[@ZashXD]

I have ue5 but it's hanging so i delete ue5 but i installed ue4.25

[@brady9621]

Another crouch tutorial plzzz

[@ViralUnrealEngine]

In UE5.1 if i try to associate metahuman skeleton to ue5 manequin pliss HELP

[@MattAspland]

What do you mean?

[@budpeetie6879]

I think he wants to import a metahuman preset and use it as his 3rd person player character

[@MartKart8]

Bit of an odd request, could you do a tutorial similar to how when Mario jumps on a Goomba's head you would flatten the Goomba, then the Goomba disappears.

[@Athasin]

Look up how to make hit boxes. Put a hit box (which is basically a collision box or sphere) on the head of an enemy. Then add code to the enemy actor BP where On Hit of the hit box it does 100% damage to the enemy actor's health variable. Then set up another function inside of the enemy actor where 0 health = destroy actor (which will immediately disappear the enemy).

[@CosmicComputer]

Yeah most of this would be animation driven, all the code would need to do is detect the hit and fire the appropriate animations and destroy the actor.

[@kenalpha3]

@@CosmicComputer instead of squish animation, you could use a scale mesh/Character to be 50% less on Z axis (squished look). And you could add a physics reaction to make the mesh body jiggle a little when first stepped on.

[@johndoe35717]

Make a good fps tutorial like pubg