Access Axes by button

Hey there!

I want to access my Horizontal Axis by buttons (so one button sets the axis to -1 the other to +1).

How to i access the axis by script?

I know that i can get the current state of the axis by "Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")" but how to i SET the axis?

 

You need to explain what you mean exactly by "setting the axis", what you are trying to do.

 

I will jump in and give you an example. I have a game that is similar to Pokemon/Zelda ALttP. Sometimes, the player triggers a new scene to load and this causes the axis values to be hard reset (let's not even go down the path of why that is or is not a good thing).

In my case, I want to give the player the option to continue holding down an axis and continue their movement. Currently, the player is required to let go of their dpad/arrow key, then repress it to keep moving in that direction. That is pretty clunky-feeling. If we could access the axes by the corresponding button (not the axis value), we could break out of the very awkward limitations put in place by the axis system.

 

Ah now I understand!

I have no idea how to do that but I'm glad I can learn about that as well, as soon as someone has answered your question.

Generally speaking though, players stop pressing the "onward" key when a new scene is loading... I do that.

 

Yeah, thats the same problem, in another scene

In my case I have a player with a movement script that moves by GetAxisRaw("Horizontal")*movementspeed * time.deltaTime
Currently it is made for PC but i thought about porting it to mobile.

I know the usual way to do the mobile movement, but i thought about just putting 2 buttons, one for setting the axis to +, one to - One to keep the difference between mobile and pc port quite low (and only left and right movement is required).

I googled a little around and found out that there is actually no way to say "Horizontal Axis = Value" by script