Feature Request Named Composite Bindings

It would be nice to be able to take an Action in a given ActionMap and use it as a Modifier or even a Binding in a different Action in the same ActionMap thereby allowing a player to reassign multiple bindings easily in the case of complex control schemes.

Let's say for example I have a Selection Add key that I want the player to be able to use both for adding units to an existing selection via Selection Add + Box Select or adding to a numbered group via Selection Add + Unit Number. This means I can have a single Selection Add that the player has to rebind, and in the case where there are many of these the benefits only compound.

 

If in your game you have the same action repeated for multiple commands, means you have to create only one action and fix this issue using your high level code.

Ex: You have your interaction action. That's it's not binded on "SelectionAdd" or "Box Selection" because these are your high level logic used over this "Interaction Action".

Let me know if it helps or i understand correctly your problem.

 

Yeah, that is how I am currently handling the situation. Really, Box Select is not an action but some logic that is run inside Select's callback function if drag is true, and drag is set whenever the mouse moves far enough between performed and canceled.

Ideally though I would want like something like this:
Select

Left Mouse Button​

Box Select

Modifier: Select
Binding: Mouse Delta​

Add Modifier

Shift​

Select Add

Modifier: Add Modifier
Binding: Select​

Box Select Add

Modifier: Add Modifier
Binding: Box Select​

This is a fairly trivial example, but I am picturing much more complex control schemes being easier to manage, reducing the amount of conditionals in the high level input code. Obviously in the rebinding interface I would not expose all of the Actions, in this case just Select and Add Modifier. It just feels strange to have modifiers interactions and processors be a thing, and yet have to push some similar logic down into code when it doesn't necessarily need to be that way.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond.