How to make a player jump when the gamepad stick is pointing up?

[Mr.B0ombastic]

its a side scroller, managed to make the player go left and right using the x axis but i have no idea how to make the player jump only when the stick is pointing up / they drag it upwards

[Everynone]

how to make the player jump only when the stick is pointing up / they drag it upwards

Would this work for you:

[Mr.B0ombastic]

yes that would defo work!! do you know how to make that InputAction tho im really new to all of this :’

[Everynone]

You can see it in the first pic. Go to Project Settings:

[Mr.B0ombastic]

question do you know how to also make it an infinite jump and not a one time only jump?

[Everynone]

Infinite jump? Jump many times? If so:

[Mr.B0ombastic]

thats really helpful! was thinking about when you hold the stick up it never stops jumping till release tho! :o

[Everynone]

Ah. So it’s not really flying but we keep chain jumping?

[Mr.B0ombastic]

yeah like a chain jump c:

[Everynone]

Oooh, fancy apex jumping Not something I see around here often, try:

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This can also be done with a Timer but the above feature is underutilised and seems like a perfect use case scenario.