D-Pad not working for anything except menus

Hi,

Am using an xbox elite controller and dpad works fine for ui navigation but if i try to make it manipulate objects in the game world the events never get triggered:

Anyone know why this might be?

Hello @aerospike_andy ,

Just to make sure, are you certain that the code works correctly when using a keyboard key? I just tested a grab system that I have implemented, and it works without any issues using an Xbox controller with a basic setup.

If that doesn’t seem to be the cause of the problem, could you explain a bit more about what you mean by “manipulate objects”? What exact result are you trying to achieve?

In the meantime, I’ll leave you this video, which also shows a basic gamepad setup that works with Input Actions.

so it works fine with kb but also works fine if i change the mapping to the “shoulders” instead of d-pad…so it definitely works…just d-pad seems to be “doing something else”

worked it out. effectively it was being captured by the UI - set it to be game-only input and it works fine

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Hello again @aerospike_andy ,
One of the solutions I had in mind was that as well. It’s a fairly common issue, but I wasn’t sure whether you were using UI or not. Glad you managed to figure it out!