How To Rebind Key/Action and Axis Mappings | Remapping and Rebinding Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to rebind key events for action mappings and axis mappings. This way the player can choose which buttons to press to use that key binding. This works with movement, interact, sprinting and anything you like.
Original Unreal Forum Post: forums.unrealengine.com/devel...
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[@TrojanLube69]

VERY IMPORTANT FOR VIEWERS: Get in the habit of using “Save Key Mapping” blueprint node after you finish setting up the keybinds. Many games use an apply button and use that same logic that is inside that blueprint node. Otherwise it will only work in the editor only even with force boolean set as true, as because the add key mapping node only rewrites the default project .ini file and not the standalone built one. I remember having to do this in c++ before UE4 4.17 or somewhere along there where those blueprint nodes weren’t available. It will save you some headaches. Enjoy coding!

[@S4NT1_27]

Thank you very much!

[@LostFrameDevelopment]

thanks for the note (: saved me some debugging time trying to fix problem haha

[@samohickey]

Awesome! Thank you so much! :D Been working on my settings menu and while I've been developing my project I've been pretty good about setting inputs in the Project Settings, so happy I've been doing that! Made this quick and easy. Your tutorials are always great!! *praise*

[@unrealengineruseng9583]

The best tutorial ! Thank you!

[@SanneBerkhuizen]

This is one of the things I've been thinking about lately. Thanks 👍

[@MattAspland]

Oh nice, glad I could provide it. No problem! :)

[@Dworim]

Amazing, thank you so much

[@brublaza5690]

this realy hepled me a lot thx

[@pencilgun4934]

Matt big thank you for the great tutorial do you have a tutorial where you show how to save these custom key binds out to save game versions and load them back in when you launch the game again? Or is it just as simple as settings variables up in a game state and then write those out to a save game object when saving? I am assuming its how you would do it right?

[@sullivanthomas2704]

Thank you so much. It's very clear. But if you want to bind the "Gamepad Left Thumbstick Y-Axis", how to do it ? You explained how to bind Axis mappings but I'm just able to get a "Gamepad Left Thumbstick Up" (or Down) as result...

[@c4rb0n46]

I was just going to search about it and you posted it It is a miracle 😂

[@timsonss]

He reads your mind mate, very shpookeah

[@MattAspland]

Haha glad I got in there at the right time :D

[@danj.haynes7411]

Thank you so much!

[@DryreL]

Hi! What if you have more than one key in the one action mapping? For example; "Pause"action mapping has 3 inputs. ESC key, P key and gamepad key. You are removing all with "for each loop" and adding only one input. This isn't proper or we can say that is uncompleted. Can you do part 2?

[@zizhgames]

Hi! Thank you for your tutorial! It's great! And I have question about how to bind steering wheel, can you help me?

[@timsonss]

Matt once again conquering my recommended page

[@MattAspland]

Thank you man, glad I could do that :)

[@OmegaMouse]

Thank you.

[@pro_di_galson6889]

Thank you very much

[@MattAspland]

No worries man! :)

[@gamedevpaddy3944]

Hey matt I was trying to add a mouse wheel up the key binding in a control menu but it won't detect the key being inputted even when changing the consume mouse wheel to never

[@TommyS04]

How do I use images instead of text? For example for left mouse button, or controller joystick?

[@KratonWolf]

Tiny issue I can see with this is that it doesn't account for pressing the Same key when entering in the key bindings (IE two key bindings can have the same Key for input). How would you go about checking to find Action/Axis mappings that already contain the wanted key, and removing them if you try to enter that key into a different Action/Axis mapping?

[@netocavalcanti]

Hello. Can we rebing the keys with the imput.ini file?

[@brublaza5690]

How do you make it so the text of the button stays to the name of the button

[@JohnDaniels]

The problem with this is action mappings can have multiple values, like for Jump you may have button A on the controller and then also Keyboard Space key. The remove loop will remove both.

[@benfala9984]

i would add a button called "add key" or something and make it only "add action mapping" instead of deleting them then adding them(like in this tutorial). I think this would worK? i dont use controller so im not going to test it

[@BoodleBops]

Did you ever find a good solution to this? having the same issue!

Does someone knows how to use the same key for example: open and close a door and open and close a drawer? i'm having trouble with that

[@TommyS04]

Holding Shift,Ctrl,Alt,CMD does not do anything for me, I have the same code as you, how do I fix that?

[@sofreshprod]

cool

[@nevabeensmart]

Been looking for a way to stop a key from being bound to multiple actions/axis, but so far no luck.

[@selimsaidi378]

nice one ! *problem is that it increment number of input inside input file

[@AaOneRey]

I identically made all that was in video, but my unreal editor crashes after that

[@fade9966]

is it saved than lets say you build that game and when you change the values in game and restart the game is it saved?

[@TrojanLube69]

Use the node Save Key Mapping to it can save the config .ini file in a standalone build project. Otherwise it only works in the editor.

[@fade9966]

@@TrojanLube69 thanks man :)

[@ratguntr]

No, it doesn't work for me. It works good in editor and in standalone game. But when I packaged game for release, it doesn't save settings....

[@Matthew.1994]

how can i get the current bindings and set the text of the key selector to the binding? so i can save and load the options menu with the correct bindings showing in them?

[@RaneyDay]

did you ever figure this out?

[@martyrier]

@@RaneyDay I did. make an Event where you set the no key specified text of every KeySelecter. You get the text from Get Input Settings > Get Action Mapping by Name > Get first element of the array > Break > Get key display name

[@jairientrouve3060]

@@martyrier Hello sorry to bother, i'm trying to do the same but i can't find the nodes you're referring to. Could you explain it in more details please

[@martyrier]

@@jairientrouve3060 Rightclick and type get input settings. Pull from there and type 'get action mapping by name'. There you have to type in the name of the keybinding (Attack, Build or what you have called it in the input settings) This gives you an array of type "Action key mappings" from which you just need the first element if you have done everything like in the video. So you pull from it and type 'get' and leave the index as 0. This gives you the first array element with the type "Action key mappings " so pull from it and say 'break'. And there you have the element "Key" from which you pull and say 'get key display name' which is the letter which triggers the event and you want to display as the No Key specified text

[@jairientrouve3060]

@@martyrier Everything work just fine, thanks a lot for your time and help.

[@s3armoredyt849]

can u do one for controller?

[@s3armoredyt849]

can u do an updated one? for ue5

[@knightofbrokenglass9237]

i love your tutorials bro, but should I just ignore them if they're for ue4? It seems the engine is completely different now...

[@KratonWolf]

it's not. this still works. though this tutorial does miss a few common points, such as checking if the key inputted is already in use and what to do in that situation.

[@jessiearnwine8314]

will this work in dragon ball unreal

[@DiabloRealm]

How did you create the second Jump button it just appeared out of nowhere?

[@itanocircus2077]

Control+C (copy) and Control+V (paste).

[@DiabloRealm]

It's not letting me drag a second Instance of Jump in, also in UE5 when you create the Widget a options windows pops up that didn't pop up on yours, I'm not sure what to select perhaps that's why I can't create a second Input Key Selector?

[@trigmax]

can you help me please How to create a real paid shop in UNREAL engine 4. pub or call of duty or other games. To buy a dress or skin you need to buy gems or pubg uc. the same is how the shop is created. please make a video about it.

[@trigmax]

you said you understood me. I hope so

[@MattAspland]

Hi, I can add it to my list, not sure when I'll get around to it, but I can add micro-transactions and a store to my list yeah :)

[@Matme-ug6jq]

Just to let you know. This video plays awful on the mobile KZbin app, but fine on the PC. Most likely due to KZbin limiting video data with what they consider to be "far right" keywords. Yours is "axis". Takes the piss.

[@MattAspland]

Oh wow right okay, thank you for letting me know man. That's so stupid though, I feel like they could look into videos containing these words a little more instead of just doing that. But again thank you for making me aware, I'll try to avoid these words in the future I guess lol.