Chorded Actions

[aerospike_andy]

If i have a chorded action (say Alt+A) as well as another action (just A) how do i stop the chorded action from executing BOTH the non-chorded and chorded version when invoked?

[BRGEzedeRocco]

HI @aerospike_andy ,
I’m leaving you a couple of tutorials that might be useful for what you want to do:

Enhanced Input key with modifier

Hi everyone, I recently started working with enhanced input and found that the documentation is missing. Couldn’t find any information about keyboard modifiers like in the old input system. [1675461711622] I only found this approach which looks like a square wheel. Is there a better/easier way?

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I am trying to use the Enhanced Input plugin but I can’t find a way to add a mapping for a keyboard key with a modifier to the input mapping context. For example I want to add two separate input actions and use shift+A and alt+A for them respectively.

• mouse - Triggering Enhanced Input Actions via inputs with modifier keys (Shift/Alt/Ctrl) in UE5 - Game Development Stack Exchange

Documentation:

Enhanced Input in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.6 Documentation | Epic...

Modifier key triggers - Enhanced Input | Community tutorial

Video Tutorials

Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Enhanced Input Part 3: Chorded Action

Unreal Engine 5.1 - Enhanced Input - Multi-Key Actions

Enhanced Input Explained - Unreal Basics

Hope it helps!

[aerospike_andy]

Kinda - I’ve seen 2 of these vids before, the 2nd one there (the kick one) was how i discovered chorded actions in the first place.

So I did do this which changed the behaviour:

This however only triggers the first time i hold down the right mouse button - subsequent press and hold does nothing - WHY? Tried it with DOWN instead of hold - same behaviour

Nothing I seem to do with the order of the controls being consumed seems to matter unfortunately.

[aerospike_andy]

It seems to be this issue:

How to Show Mouse Cursor without losing mouse capture?

Your solution does indeed work for some use cases. The solution that I posted is a bit more involved, and will work in 100% of use cases. For more details see the tutorial request link, it contains the entire problem set and a link to a blog explaining some of the edge cases as well as a video demonstrating some of the other related problems and how to fix them. If your solution works perfectly for your game, there is no reason to make it any more complex. However if you notice that it’s not…

[aerospike_andy]

This seems to have fixed it:

[aerospike_andy]

OK so back to the chorded thing:

In this setup holding down A or W or whatever whilst holding down Alt does both the rotation actions (at the top) and the dolly/pedestal movement stuff at the bottom?

Should this ordering not mean that the lower actions are not activated?