Call an Input

Yeah, I know, this is basic stuff, but what I'm trying is not the classic

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Code (CSharp):

1. if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
2.     {
3.         Do.stuff();
4.     }

I don't know how hard or easy this coud be, but I want to call an Input by switching a bool, something like

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Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2.     {
3.         if (isJumpPress == true)
4.         {
5.             Input.GetButtonDown("Jump");
6.         }
7.     }

What I want is to make the "Jump" input callable via script, without touching the space button or any button.

Any idea?? Thank you

 

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2.     {
3.         if (isJumpPress)
4.         {
5.             if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump")) {
6.               // Do something?
7.             }
8.         }
9.     }

Like so?

You can collapse it to:

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2.     {
3.         if (isJumpPress && Input.GetButtonDown("Jump")) {
4.            // Do something
5.         }
6.     }

 

I think the

Code (CSharp):

1. Input.GetButtonDown("")

returns a bool and the way its used is as shown above.

To call it, well you write as shown above, in an if statement, or like this

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. bool x;
3. x = Input.GetButtonDown("");
4.  

Which would set the variable x to true if the button is being pressed and false if it is not.

 

I've tried something like that, but the thing is that I want to make the button being pressed when the bool is true, and not make the bool true when the button is pressed.

I am trying to make virtual buttons with vuforia and it coud be very useful if I can call the input's using them, but actually I don't know if this can be done xD

 

You'd make a wrapper class reading Input. So something like MyInput, which does:

Code (csharp):

1. public static bool JumpPressed { get; private set; }
2.  
3. void Update() {
4.     JumpPressed = Input.GetButtonDown("Jump");
5. }
6.  
7. //in other scripts, check:
8. if(MyInput.JumpPressed)

And then whenever you want to override the inputs with something else, you just update your MyInput to do that.

 

Done and working, but with this method I still have to push the physical button to make it work, what I need is to be able to push it only via script.

 

If you only check input in Update, you could do something like:

Code (csharp):

1. public static bool JumpPressed;
2.  
3. void Update() {
4.     if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
5.         JumpPressed = true;
6. }
7.  
8. void LateUpdate() {
9.     JumpPressed = false;
10. }

Then you can set JumpPressed to true in one script, and check it in another.

The issue there is execution order, if the script that checks this runs before the script that check it, it's a bit useless. You can handle that through script execution order, through the new (but somewhat complex and experimental) PlayerLoop system, or through some other means.

 

So I shoud use MyInput to get all the inputs and make a bool and then work with those bool's as input?

In this way, I coud just make a bool true with code and emulate the reaction.

I'm going to try, thank you!!

Edit: it worked, I'll still have to change a lot of stuff but definitely this helped a lot, thank you!