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• ChrisIceBox

  April 2020

  Here's a custom scripts that simulates input buttons from an input axis:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class SimulateShiftAxis : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public string axisName = "ShiftAxis";
      public float minChangeTime = 0.3f;
      public float axisThreshold = 0.4f;
      private float timer;
  
  
      private void Start ()
      {
          KickStarter.playerInput.InputGetButtonDownDelegate += GetButtonDown;
      }
  
  
      private void Update ()
      {
          if (timer > 0f) timer -= Time.deltaTime;
      }
  
  
      private bool GetButtonDown (string axis)
      {
          try
          {
              if (axis == "ShiftLeft")
              {
                  float scrollwheel = Input.GetAxisRaw (axisName);
                  if (scrollwheel > axisThreshold)
                  {
                      if (timer <= 0f)
                      {
                          timer = minChangeTime;
                          return true;
                      }
                  }
              }
              else if (axis == "ShiftRight")
              {
                  float scrollwheel = Input.GetAxisRaw (axisName);
                  if (scrollwheel < -axisThreshold)
                  {
                      if (timer <= 0f)
                      {
                          timer = minChangeTime;
                          return true;
                      }
                  }
              }
  
              return Input.GetButtonDown (axis);
          }
          catch {}
  
          return false;
      }
  
  }
  

  There's three axes names in the script here: ShiftLeft, ShiftRight, and Shift. You'll need to rename these to what you have defined.

  ShiftLeft and ShiftRight refer to the inputs listed in the "Alternative input button" fields for the actual Button elements. Shift refers to the d-pad axis, which is 2D so you'll need to define positive and negative buttons for those in Unity's Input Manager.
• Afello

  April 2020

  Thanks Chris! Just a quick up date: i got the script/component working and I can at least browse through the items. Only problem now is dat everything is extremely finicky and unpredictable (items sometimes jumps two at a time, up becomes left, right becomes up, etc).

  My thinking right now is I have to dive a bit deeper into tweaking the axis settings in the input manager (sensitivty, dead zones, etc). I'm trying to use a joystick as buttons so I'm pretty sure I need to adjust accordingly.

  Once again thanks for the script!!!
• ChrisIceBox

  April 2020

  That method relies on a timer - so that keeping the axis held will cause it to have an effect every few frames.

  An alternative method, whereby you need to let go of the axis for it to be able to have an effect again:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class SimulateShiftAxis : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public string axisName = "ShiftAxis";
      public float axisThreshold = 0.4f;
      private bool isLocked;
  
  
      private void Start ()
      {
          KickStarter.playerInput.InputGetButtonDownDelegate += GetButtonDown;
      }
  
  
      private bool GetButtonDown (string axis)
      {
          try
          {
              float scrollwheel = Input.GetAxisRaw (axisName);
              if (axis == "ShiftLeft")
              {
                  if (!isLocked && scrollwheel > axisThreshold)
                  {
                      isLocked = true;
                      return true;
                  }
              }
              else if (axis == "ShiftRight")
              {
                  if (!isLocked && scrollwheel < -axisThreshold)
                  {
                      isLocked = true;
                      return true;
                  }
              }
  
              if (scrollwheel < (axisThreshold / 2f) && scrollwheel > -(axisThreshold / 2f))
              {
                  isLocked = false;
              }
  
              return Input.GetButtonDown (axis);
          }
          catch {}
  
          return false;
      }
  
  }
  
• Afello

  April 2020

  Yes! This script gives much more stability, thanks again Chris!

  I also start to believe that the axis on the d-pad of the Xbox One S controller might use the same for both vertical and horizontal. The only input in the input manager that is using the 5th axis is the DpadHorizontal I defined... yet I can also browse through my inventory with left and right as well as up and down.

  I can find next to nothing about this specific controller. I even thought that maybe my dpad was broken but the other Xbox One S controller acts exactly the same. Anybody has any idea what might be going on? I'm gonna try and hook up a PS4 controller as well, see if the problem prevails.