Easy Joystick for Mobile with Input System in Unity 

Thank you a lot for those tutorials! You really have been helping my to understand how the new input system works

I have been looking for a simple solution for all of yesterday. I'm so happy I found your video

After over a half hour, got it to work, thanks

awesome video! I'm trying to learn the new Input System and your videos certainly help

It's Really Helpful!!! thank you for making it easy and simple to understand!!

Where were you all my life? The best and easiest movement tutorial ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you a lot for those tutorials!

Sensacional o video, extremamente organizado e direto ao ponto! Parabens!

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Simple and comprehensible. Thanks)

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Thanks a lot, lots of useful info and good practice tips here

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Hmmm I've subscribed because yesterday I've found a really good video on your channel and today looking for some information about this I found your channel again. So thank you again xDD

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awesome, to the point

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thank you Unity input system is good! i'm made high quality controller !

Great tutorial

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Thanks!

Thanks for the tutorial - this Unity input is so convoluted. Godot FTW!

wow Thanks!

Is there a tutorial of yours where you explain step by step how to code the character script instead just to copy from the documentation? thanks for the tutorial. :D

Vector 2 to Vector 3 I was not sure how to do at first. Some may see that up on controller will use y for your rigid body. To have it use Z instead look at line 44 at 4:42 in the video. You need to have a new Vector 3 set to your (vector2.x, 0, vector2,y). Now your movement will work correct instead of up going up compared to the plane.

Hi, this video is great and helped out a lot. But I was wondering if there's a way to make the joystick more customizable. Before I switched to the new input actions I downloaded a free joystick asset pack and the controls on those feel better because of possibly lower dead zone and the fact that the center of the joystick can move according the finger's position.

I am a bit confused, when did you set up your player/animations? is this a second part of a video? Could you direct me to the video if so.

question how can i change the right joystick to look around to just use the right side of the screen so i can put another button there for lke jump or slide etc. (also how can i make the movement have exceleration? so the more you move character the faster it gets)

Great video! Helped a lot. Thanks for it and keep going

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Thanks for tutorial, please make walk and button running!

Thanks

Good one Sam ;)

A great tutorial again, clear and precise! Thank you so much. Now I have one question please, I implement both joysticks and it is working well. I have juste a trouble when turning the character around, the "Shoot" event is also triggered! Could you please tell me how to dissociate them? Or to make things easy for you, is that possible to add a shooting action button when user click inside the right joystick sprite? Thank you a bunch, regards

first of all thanks for the video. I have a question for you. Why does the joystick that I add in my Canvas not move in the editor or mobile device? where am i doing wrong?

this is amazing , but how to replace left stick with full screen touchpad ?

Nice ☺️

thx

Amazing! Very helpful!

The anchor presets is not working properly. Oh i was just dumb, i didn't read the Alt+Shift.

I have a problem when using this. Even when I'm not touching the joystick image, but when my click/touch is in the proximity, the joystick gets selected and moves. This interferes with other buttons that are near by.

Whenever I open a tutorial video. The trainers ask us to watch 250 videos they shot by saying "Yes, I showed this, I told you about it, you already know that". Just to watch and understand one video. This makes it even more complicated. I really don't understand why you are doing this.

Nice. But I have one question. Does using old way ( get inputs from update()) gives less frame rate ?

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If someone runs into a problem like not working in the next scene, plz remember to put that EventSystem object under your UI_Canvans, which has a Singleton generic set up already.

awesome

everything is on a video that i have no idea where.... thanks

Thanks! I love the content you are providing. FWIW I had one small problem. I noticed that the UI image wasn't moving around for me (see about 1:30 in the video). I fixed this problem by going into my EventSystem game object and changing from "Stand Alone Input Module" to the new InputSystemUIInputModule. If anyone else has a similar problem you may have a similar issue.

If I want to make it work on a mobile should I still keep it as gamepad left joystick?

Hi Sam, after implementing the UI and hit play, I can't drag the image around and move the joy stick. Any idea what's happening?

Thanks a lot! how would i deal with if our camera is top right or smth.

I follow the video but I don't necassarily get the implementation into code. I am trying to use a joystick that essientially if held down (pass through i'm assuiming) triggers one function, if held up triggers another function... etc.

Thanks, but for some reason it wont move for me. I ALWAYS have trouble setting up input on a new project :(

Great video! I have a question though. How can I enable input detection just tapping anywhere on the screen but not only Canvas left-pad that we did in the video?

Hey, do you have a video already on how to make the player switch between animations with the joystick? For example if the joystick is being moved max on any side, the character runs; if the joystick is being moved only a bit the character just walks; and if the joystick isn't being moved at all, the character idles?

Hi!, I'm using a game pad, and I have an issue. Maybe you can help :). My character has a blend-tree to manage the IDLE and move animations, and when I let the analog stick go back quickly to the center, the blend transition from run to IDLE go too fast. When I use keyboard this transition is OK. Any idea?.

where do i get that on screen joystick script from edit: just realized you said it comes with the input system and i forgot to have the input system i thought you meant input manager

i don't have any unity registry or input system in the package manager in Unity 2019.3.11f1 (64-bit) version

I made a game with wasd controls, and now i want to make a mobile version of it, though its gonna take forever to remake everything for mobile, so is their an easy way to change it in the same script maybe? Edit: I forgot to mention that I dont want joysticks, instead id like arrow buttons. is there a way for a button to receive the same input message as a keyboard arrow? like make the button on screen behave like the one on the keyboard?

I watched a few videos from you about movement and input. pretty good. but what about a video where you actually MOVE something? Couldn't find anyone.

I did a right click and drag on the soft roll, now if I click Play the position clock starts but my ti cursor does not move and I cant

Can you move the camera and the joystick at the same time?

so ok i got it ,its available in newer versions

Can you make a video about mobile first person controller, I saw the one for pc but for mobile is not there

My player movement script dosent have anything, it’s just a normal script. how do I fix this?

So do i need to change the input handling setting to the new one or keep using the old one? It caused an error when i switched it to the new one.

Can you make a Tutorial about changing image sprite based on Control Schemes?

Hello pls help . No video is helping in my game no joystick works

Can you please make a video on saving and loading?

Can you make tutorial about joysticks with out using input system for 3rd person movement

How do you read the playerInput values from the PlayerController script? What is playerInput an instance of? The component is called "Player Input" but I can't find anything like that when I try to reference it in code

Do you know how to make touchscreen camera control not with right stick? Because it feels so slow and slippery

I'm new to unity and was trying the to create an on-screen joystick using this tutorial. But I'm currently running to an issue where I cannot move the on-screen stick when testing on android. The stick can move when testing on windows. What should I check/setup in order to fix this? Edit: Tested the Input System samples (on screen controls and touch samples) but still experiencing the same issue. Using Input System v1.0.2 on Unity Editor 2020.3.11f1 Thanks

great video! is there a tutorial for how to make the camera just be controlled by swiping on the screen (like minecraft does it)? thanks so much edit: forgot to mention first person as well

InvalidOperationException: You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings. If you ever get this error just go to project settings> Plater> other settings> active input handling> and change it to BOTH

At 1:53 you choose Gamepad instead of Joystick even though this is a tutorial about adding a joystick control. Is there a reason why? After you clicked Gamepad you then clicked Left Stick. If you click Joystick it's basically the same except it just says Stick. Are the Left and Right Sticks in Gamepad different from the Stick in Joystick? Or are they the same? I'm probably just overthinking this so sorry if this is an unnecessary question. And thank you for this tutorial!

Madzam you finished the video b4 linking the continuation of the video where you put the codezzzzz... assume its a totally new viewer accessing this video randomly

float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(input.x, input.y) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cameraTransform..... whats writing after miss ?

Hello, thank you for this nice video, but i have a question. Houw to make this controller for 2D platformer games using virtual buttons? I can't to finde some tutorial about it, because many tuts are with joystick. If it possible to make some video, would be great. Or maybe just help me. Because on Unity Editor virtual buttons works good, but when i make Build for testing on Mobile, there are some bugs (player do not move or moving with lottle steps after many tap on buttons)... Maybe some bad Interactions setting... I don't know... I stuck with this 🤷🏻

Is there a way to "transfer" your "touch" from one button to another? I am trying to do as follows: There is "one" joystick on screen. But before it is running its joystick logic, you have to hold it for a second. The way it is setup is there is a regular "on screen button", behind this button is an image (circular slider), and behind the slider is the joystick. So what happens is you can tap the button and your tap will not be detected by the joystick (since the button is on top of it). This is fine, because the button can be the one that runs the slider (if you hold the button, the slider fills up over time, and if you release it, then the slider empties over time). If the slider becomes completely empty, it disappears. If the slider is FULL then the button AND the slider disappear. Now the joystick is available since the button and the slider, which were on top, have disappeared. Now the issue is that your touch input, which is what you used to tap and hold the button, isn't being detected by the joystick. You have to release your original touch and then touch again, this time the joystick is directly touchable since the button and slider are gone. So a solution would be for the joystick to detect touch if you DO NOT drag, so that the player can hold the joystick, which at the moment, IsPressed(), started, performed are NOT firing until you start dragging (so it doesn't look like it can be used to run the button's code, which is expecting the player to hold the button). Another solution would be to somehow transfer the original touch from the button to the joystick. That way when the button and slider disappear, the joystick takes over that touch input. Any clue how to do this? The idea is to have the player hold the joystick for like 2 seconds before the joystick becomes enabled. To give the player visual feedback, I added a circle slider which when full makes the joystick usable. So far, I have a button that runs the "touch and hold" logic (and slider). But once the "hold" action is complete, my joystick isn't detecting the input until the user released the original touch input and re-touches the joystick. It's setup as button in the front, slider behind it, joystick behind all that. That way, as the button and slider are enabled/disabled, the user can't tell (since they're using the same image asset).

Me: creating joystick from scratch samyam: ...so all you need to do is add On-Screen Stick component after all this time ...

How do I undo everything because now all my code for player movements using the keyboard controls are not working.

Is this joystick counts only parameters from - 1 to 1, or it reads like 0.5f or 0.6f (Please sorry for my English)

why my Ui buttons not working when i press play

And what about the speed sensitivy?

When I create the Ui image it appears in centre and 50 times bigger than my 1920x1080 background in Scene window (I use 2d template).

Dear Samyam, Can you help me make floating joystick on mobile with the Unity Starter Assets FPS controller, I cannot get it working, I have been on this a looooooong time can you help me?

Hi samyam, i got a problem with touch input. i followed your procedure and its working on some devices but not on all. it gives laggy output. Actually, its not working on my own phone but on other extra android devices that i have it is working fine. I want to know what could be the reason for this laggy output movement on using an on-screen stick. I have checked my phone's performance and touch inputs but nothing seems to be working. PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

have they finally fixed it when using a player input component? last time i tried it made the player input auto switch to gamepad canceling all touch events