Another way of doing input action for buttons

[Digitalhoax]

Another way of doing the input action for button pressing, is the “triggered” bool value. Reading the current documentation for Input Systems (Actions | Input System | 1.0.2).

I wrote my method like this.

private void ProcessFiring()
    {
        if (fire.triggered)
            Debug.Log("I'm Shooting");
    }

Didn’t realize this was going to bite me later in the next lessons. This seems to be a usecase for a flashlight toggle maybe, or an interaction with a door. However in this use case having the recognition of an input being pressed and held is required. Actions | Input System | 1.3.0 Somehow I was looking at old documentation on this system in my previous work. Using “IsPressed()” method on InputAction that returns a bool. If holding the button it will continue to return true until release.

Here is my code now…

private void ProcessFiring()
    {
        if (fire.IsPressed())
        {
            SetLasersActive(true);
        }
        else
        {
            SetLasersActive(false);
        }
    }

    private void SetLasersActive(bool isActive)
    {
        foreach (var laser in lasers)
        {
            var emission = laser.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().emission;
            emission.enabled = isActive;
        }
    }

Cheers!