Best way to switch out button prompts when the player changes from mouse and keyboard to controller?

Development Programming & Scripting
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I’m looking for the best way to check what input devices are currently being used (mouse/keyboard, 360 controller, etc) and switch out the button prompts to accommodate the player. I know that an option to switch input methods in the options menu is easiest way to achieve this, but for the sake of a slick player experience, doing it on the fly would be ideal.

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In your PlayerController C++ class you can store a bool bIsInKeyboardMode then override these functions

	virtual bool InputAxis(FKey Key, float Delta, float DeltaTime, int32 NumSamples, bool bGamepad) override;
	virtual bool InputKey(FKey Key, EInputEvent EventType, float AmountDepressed, bool bGamepad) override;
	virtual bool InputMotion(const FVector& Tilt, const FVector& RotationRate, const FVector& Gravity, const FVector& Acceleration) override;

Use bGamepad to check if input has changed and assume that InputMotion can only be called by gamepad.

When a change occurred you can call a BlueprintEvent and update your HUD/Menus accordingly.

Hope it helps.

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Perfect. Cheers for the speedy reply.