TouchScript — multi-touch library for Unity [RELEASED]

Hello

In my game I have a FullScreen Layer that detects all gestures; touching anywhere on the screen will rotate or pan the camera. When someone presses anywhere on the screen a menu appears.

I have a problem that when ever someone Pans a press event is also sent. So the menu always appears when they are panning which isn't supposed to happen.

The order of events sent by TouchScript when someone pans is (knowtice how a press message is sent):
- Press recognized
- Press Potential
- Pan Started

The order of events sent by TouchScript when someone presses is:
- Press recognized
- Press Potential

How can I determine if a person really has pressed and that they are not panning? How can I distinguish between a Pan and a Pres

 

How can I write custom gestures recognition? The tutorial isn't started. I want to be able to recognize stars and other shapes.

 

Hi,
your Project is great, but I can't seem to find a way to dynamically add a full screen touch layer.
The Problem is I have a Menu that is being created in the game overlaying the game screen.
This Menu is a Prefab with a Fullscreen layer.
Since I have only one Camera, global and MainCamera settings give the same results.
When I don't create it dynamically and just place it manually I get all gestures from the full screen, when I create it manually I only receive touches directly on the object.
I guess that the automatically created camera layer for the main Camera somehow interferes with the fullscreen layer, but how can i stop that from being created?

 

Valyard thanks for this plugin, i'm using it on an android 2d games and works very well. I'm using interstitial adverts and i have a problem with press gesture.

1. The press gesture is active
   
2. A full screen AD is called
   
3. The finger is lifted to close the advert but obviously the release gesture isn't executed because the game is paused
   
4. Closed the Ad the press gesture is still active without a way to stop it

How can i cancel this touch point before or after the advert? thanks

 

Hi, I was wondering if any can help me out with this script using playmaker?
So here is the problem,when you first a touch a button, it would not release until you touch it the second time. Than it will work properly. I have attached a sample. thank you.

 

Hi Valentin,

Amazing Touch Script package. Kudos for sharing this work.

I just downloaded the package and going through the included examples. I'm on a Mac, Unity 4.5.3p1 IOS pro.
I tested the pan example in the editor and found a strange behavior when tapping the button. Based on the script, each time I click on the button the base should rotate. It doesn't seem to be rotating all of the time.

Here is a video.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48378123/TouchScriptPan.mp4

 

First, thank you for this excellent asset. I watched your Unite2012 video and was very impressed with your work.

I'm trying out your asset for the first time and I have a few questions that are not covered in the FAQ.

1) It's not clear how all the packages fit together. If I'm working on a multiplatform game do I import each package or just the TouchScript package?

2) With the Windows Store Package and Examples the mouse is not recognised as a touch source. I can create a build, deploy it to my Surface RT and see that the touch input works. But mouse input does not work on my Surface RT device or my dev machine when I run the project locally.

If I use the Windows8 package/examples and build an exe, mouse input works. What am I doing wrong?

D'oh! 5 minutes with the first tutorial and I've figured out my issue with the mobile/mouse input.

A little clarification on my first question about how the packages fit together in a multi platform project would be great.

Thanks again for this great asset.

 

Hi !

Nice work with TS !

What is the best approach to create orbiter like MouseOrbit script?

Thanks !

 

Hello,

How do i use gesture.HasTouch(?), it needs an ITouch parameter but i don't know how to get it. can sm1 put a code example on how i can use it?

 

Thanks so much for the script.
I'm wondering if I'm doing this right:

I'd like to implement camera panning and zooming using TouchScript.
In the Layers example scene, this (well, at least panning) is implemented using a SimplePanGesture and Tranform2D on the whole scene.
So panning would translate the scene, not the camera. This seems excessive. Is this really the best way to implement camera panning?
If not, how should one do it?

Thanks.

 

Hello!

Has anyone got the new ui system (uGui) to work with touchscript?? A custom touch layer should give us "sort of" support for gui buttons, but I have no idea how to create it?!

Combination of uGui and TouchScipt would be superb!!!

 

Thanks @valyard! I hope you had a great vacation.

 

Hey @valyard, I just tried to register on your new site but I have not received the activation email. It's in my spam. Is the SMTP working?

 

Thank you @valyard!

It seems registration works without activation email....

 

I'm struggling with the fact that it appears the Flick example has been dropped from the package? Combine that with the lack of good documentation and I can't figure out how to implement simple flick detection. I'm also unclear on whether or not by default it can inform your script of the direction of the flick.

 

Thanks for your response. After looking through the existing examples again, I was able to figure out how to implement the flick gesture on an invisible plane attached to my camera in order to move the camera. Now I just need to figure out how to determine the direction of the flick.

 

Hi, great free plugin.

I've been lookin at the tutorials and docs and i see that we need to attach script to the object we want to interact with to receive a call back.

But what if i want to be able to touch anywhere on an empty screen and have the position of the tap sent to a gameobject located elsewhere. How would i do that since there's no object to attach anything to. Something like Inpuit.getmousebutton(0), which gets information from anywhere on the screen.

I have a function in update() on a 2D object which rotates it in the direction of a mouse click on screen(and updates the position continously as long as mouse button is held down:

function moveOnMouseDown(){ //default position face upwards
if(Input.GetMouseButton(0) && !touching && !paused){
mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
mousePos.z = -Camera.main.transform.position.z; //The distance from the camera to screen
lookPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos);
lookPos = lookPos - ch_transform.position;
// Debug.Log(lookPos + " " + (mousePos - transform.position));
angle = Mathf.Atan2(lookPos.y, lookPos.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
angle -= 90;
ch_transform.rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle, Vector3.forward);
}
}


How would i use touchscript to recreate this using touches?

 

Hi, for UnityScript with TouchScript and PanGesture, the events are:
OnPanStart, OnPan, OnPanComplete
(from https://github.com/TouchScript/TouchScript/wiki/Gestures)

So you would need to have different functions. So to detect ending of pan gesture, use a function (which PanGesture sends a message to) to handle when the pan gesture ends.

So in UnityScript, have these for example:

function OnPanStart(sender: PanGesture)
{
Debug.Log("pan started");
}

function OnPan(sender: PanGesture)
{
Debug.Log("pan is happening!");
}

function OnPanComplete(sender: PanGesture)
{
Debug.Log("pan finished");
}

For non-C# people TouchScript can be confusing, including the Transformer2D script example.

But for UnityScript, all you need to write are the handlers, that is

OnTap(sender: TapGesture)
OnPan(sender: PanGesture)
etc.

TouchScript will trigger the events and you just handle it on the UnityScript side.

The parameters sent to your UnityScript function will have information about the gesture.

For example, OnPanComplete(sender: PanGesture) ... sender.LocalDeltaPosition will have information about what the pan movement was.

What is in "sender", well, it will have the "properties, etc." for each gesture type (note inheritance) as per http://touchscript.github.io/docs/html/N_TouchScript_Gestures.htm

Good luck, took me a while to figure it out, I might just be getting the hang of it!

 

Touchscript.dll file is missing..!!!

 

Hi, I'm using this great component, but I did not understand the hierarchy explained here: https://github.com/TouchScript/TouchScript/wiki/The-Journey-of-a-Touch-Point

Is there a rule for the order of the gesture recognized?

Thanks

 

I'm receiving an error when importing the Playmaker actions.

"Assets/TouchScript/Modules/PlayMaker/Actions/GestureStateChanged.cs(25,24): error CS0426: The nested type `GestureState' does not exist in the type `Gesture'"

Any clues?

 

Someone can help me in two questions?

1 - I am using TapGesture, PressedGesture and ReleasedGesture. how do I not need to always add the three in myself every time? How do I create a class to be able to reuse the three together?
2 - I am creating an animation in PressedGesture and ReleasedGesture returning this animation, however the animation ReleasedGesture only runs when shooting the finger from the screen,
is there any way to know when the finger was dragged off the button and run the animation?

Thanks

 

Hey guys, if you want to get answers from the developer, post your questions at the dedicated forum: http://touchprefab.com/

 

Hi All!!

I'm trying touse TouchScript to control my input from device or mouse. I want to know how can I modify the Tap example to explode the cube instead of making a tap, when I'm moving the finger over the cube?

This way, I want to press the screen and move the finger over the cubes that will explode (without releasing the finger) and when I finally release the finger the cube stop exploding, although I tap and move the finger over the screen again.

How can I achieve this gesture behaviour?

Thanks in advance

 

Hi !!
I am testing this tool and it looks pretty helpful, How can I see more that two touches on screen? I have tried keeping pressing the alt key and clicking the mouse button, but I just can see two touches.

Thanks.

 

afaik you can only get 2 touches using the touch emulation. what i use is a tablet with an app emulating tuio data (for example TuioPad on iPad).

 

Hi. I want to implement hold button, how to use the longpress? I tried but doesnt work.

 

hello.. been digging through this, and it is quite nice. I've had a look and there seems to be something missing from the 6.8 solution:

OSCsharp\
TUIOsharp\

should be found in: (these referenced projects do not exist)
"TouchScript.Inputs\TUIOsharp\OSCsharp\OSCsharp.csproj"
"TouchScript.Inputs\TUIOsharp\TUIOsharp\TUIOsharp.csproj"

is this just a remnant of past project/dependencies that can be cleared away?

(i'll take a look at earlier versions to see if they're included)

 

the references are there (atleast in the .sln), but the projects themselves seem to be missing from the directory structure.. visual studio flags them in the solution explorer as missing. (just a grey'd icon with a ? mark)

 

yes, you're of course right

I just needed to put everything together after realizing the missing projects were separated... fixed.

thanks very much... this is a "learn through exploration" session.


if by chance you get a moment... can you take a look here at my question about universal windows 10 and store apps:

http://touchprefab.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24355

thank you!

 

Hi! I haven't figured out how to implement the following, simple scene:
-the background is a touch detector for pan, scale (camera movement) - I did this using full screen target
-objects in the scene can be tapped

My problem is, I want the background detector to fire for pan, scale gestures that originate on the scene objects. I figured this would be possible since they can only handle tap gestures, so other gestures would be passed on, but no.

I tried setting it up using layers and friendly gestures but it's not working. Can anyone help me figure this out?

Thanks!

 

@valyard Hi, I need to replace fingergesture to support our non-game app that works on multitouch windows pc, android and iOS.

Is this a good replacement?

Is there any problem on mobile platforms?

Thanks a lot,
Stefano

 

Hey guys, you should post your questions to the official forum for this asset: http://touchprefab.com/index.php

At the very least, you'll get your questions answered faster.

 

....no answer both here and official forum

 

hi all. I have updated the touchscript plugin for the new version, but theres not a example for gestures on a 2D game yet. someone knows if theres a youtube channel, or documents, or tutorial for use this plugin in 2d games?

thx

 

I am only able to get gestures working on game objects with textures set via the SpriteRenderer. Once I select a PNG file as the sprite renderer gestures arent detected. Any help?

 

touchscript appears to be dead.

 

@valyard do you have planned gestures support with uGUI? Now If I'm not wrong it's still necessary to attach a collider to each object in order to work.

I think it's the only feature that makes it almost perfect and should be built-in with Unity.

That makes me think, If you are from Unity Staff and TouchScript is free (you don't want to make money with it) why you don't talk to your team in order to integrate it in the core? It whould be awesome.

Thanks!

 

Is there a way for the drag script to drag on different axis than X and Y, preferable X and Z?