Best way to track held buttons/keys?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hey guys, just a general question here. Is there a reliable way beyond Pressed/Released to determine whether or not a button is down? For example, I have added an ADS (Iron sights) system to my character, and added an ADS state to the state machine. I also have an ADS Walk State, which adds a little gun movement for when I’m moving around.

The problem is sometimes the states don’t get updated. Like I’ll be walking and go into ADS a couple times, then stop, and go into ADS and it’s playing the ADS Walk animation even though I’m stopped. It feels like I need to be checking all the buttons in Tick at all times and updating my IsAiming booleans that way. Is that possible/advisable? Thanks in advance for any advice.

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It’s difficult to grasp where the issue lays without a visual of your statemachines and blueprints, but I think I get it.

So are you asking how to go about fixing it or checking it to figure out why on your own?

From the way it sounds, you may need a sort of automatically refreshing conditional check. Maybe from an event tick node to constantly check your booleans and be sure to cross check if a key is being pressed or released in order to correcr itself. It’s hard to explain but anywhere is a start right?

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