how to add a single touch button for mobile games?

anonymous_user_8d9afd26 · February 19, 2016, 4:29pm

Hello,
i want to add a touch button for my mobile game. For example when i touch it, the player shoots oder jumps.
The player already moves with the left joystick. My game is a 2D sidescroller.

Thanks for helping me!

anonymous_user_2b03d27c · February 19, 2016, 5:50pm

Hey Valey14-

If you are trying to setup touch input for your character you may want to look at the base character code (ProjectNameCharacter.cpp). There is a default function setup to handle TouchStart and TouchStopped. The code in these functions can be edited for the needs you have (shooting instead of jumping in this case).

Cheers

anonymous_user_8d9afd26 · February 19, 2016, 6:24pm

hi, thanks for your answer but i accidentally tagged it with c++.
how does this work from blueprint scripting?

anonymous_user_2b03d27c · February 19, 2016, 6:51pm

In the right-click menu of your blueprint you can find Input->Touch Input->Touch.

anonymous_user_8d9afd26 · February 19, 2016, 10:00pm

ok i found it, but how can i make a button with it like in the widget menu

anonymous_user_e729f54e · February 22, 2016, 3:44pm

Hello Valey14,

I have provided a link below to the UMG documentation. Click events are covered under the event section. I hope that this information helps.

Link: UMG UI Designer for Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.1 Documentation

Make it a great day

anonymous_user_8d9afd26 · February 22, 2016, 5:48pm

Hey ,
so now i know how to create buttons in a widget Blueprint. Thanks!
But is it possible, that when i press a button, that the player jumps.
For me it actually worked for shooting. But i don´t get it for jumping.

anonymous_user_e729f54e · February 22, 2016, 6:22pm

A couple of ways that you could do this would be that you could use a custom event to call the jumping function or build a jumping functionality in UMG and call it there.

anonymous_user_8d9afd26 · February 22, 2016, 6:30pm

Thank you so much it works!