Local Multiplayer UI with the Multiplayer Event System - Unity Tutorial

In this video we will use the Multiplayer Event System from the new Input System in Unity to separate the UI for local multiplayer games.

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⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:49 Recap
2:12 Multiplayer Event System
7:11 Add UI
7:59 Camera Screen Space for Split screen
8:48 First Selected Property
9:40 Button Navigation Fix
10:45 Further Suggestions
14:11 Outro

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[Nikko]

5:03 dunno if you already know this, but when you add a PlayerInput component, there is a button called "Create Actions...", which basically lets you create a copy of DefaultInputActions.

[Zambeb]

Thank you! The only "local multiplayer with new input system" tutorial that could help me!

[TwinStick]

This is something unity has been needing for a long time!

[victorlapin]

Useful stuff right here, thanks Sam 😊👍

[mattsponholz]

Amazing video. Thank you! The only part I'm figuring out is how to navigate a UI as anyone but Player 1.
I'll post here if I find an easy solution!

[surfgame]

At 5:08 instead of copying that file and using the new copy I copied the UI action map and pasted it into the Playercontrols input action map.

[jamescharnley]

I am having a problem with this setup. When I spawn in the second player the Canvas group component on the first player's canvas automatically gets disabled and can no longer be interacted with. I can't find any info about how to prevent this.

[GameDevDave]

You are so awesome! Keep it up, i love your tutorials

[vinipossatto]

Nice video! Your work are awesome, I love yours videos, is very useful

[Pierre_Dev]

how would you make it work in a single Canvas? like a character selection screen? thanks for the help until

[marsblack]

Great course, I am curious if you have a course on local multiplayer where you reuse the same UI canvas without saving the ui as a preset and instantiate it in every player or cloning it for everyplayer. So basically you have one UI canvas object that can be used by any local player to access the menu and change configs to it's player prefs.
I say this because the current solution of cloning the UI for every player i find a bit wasteful

[XcutAngel]

9:25 how would you apply that via script?

[Delvarn]

Great video and followed along until the end. I really want my 2 players to choose their characters on the same screen, independently, but I'm struggling with what needs to be connected to what. So I can spawn a player prefab, and event spawn and associate the eventmanager with it. But how do I connect it to its own specific canvas without getting muddled with player 2?

[holmbergen]

7:12 and following section could be replaced if you used the "Button - TextMeshPro" option, TextMeshPro offers a lot higher quality text rendering. Unity's old text UI render is pretty much obsolete (yet they haven't removed it).
I completely overlooked Unity has added Multiplayer Event System script (working on my local coop game). Thanks!!

[XboxPlayerPL]

it doesn't work, ui is disabled for both players

[ashmcconnell]

Great tutorial, found it really useful! I'm having a problem where it only uses the right hand side of the screen despite having the Split Screen screen rectangle set to 0, 0, 1, 1. Has anyone else had similar problems (Unity 2020.3.17f1 and Input system 1.2).

[FeLiNaLabsLTD]

Hello, would you be willing to help us add local multiplayer to our offline game ?

[Swiss_Gamification_Academy]

Hey great Videos. I need your help. How do you make a local multiplayer co-op System without spawning a prefab of a player when the second controller joins the game. For example I'm making a tableSoccer game and I have 4 poles (every pole has a separate script on it) where I can switch between the 4 poles. How can the second controller get access to the other 4 poles of his team without spawning them with a prefab? They are already in the scene. You would help me so much if you have a solution for that!

[Vastlee]

Came for the Buddons.
Stayed for the Multiplayer Code on how to click Buddons.
Also... Buddon