Input System Interactions Explained | Press, Hold, Tap, SlowTap, MultiTap - Unity

Today we go over Interactions in Unity's New Input System. I go what makes an interaction, how it impacts the actions, the individual actions themselves, code overview, interaction priority and multiple interactions, and custom interactions.

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ᐅInput System Action Types Explained | Value, Passthrough, Button - Unity
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First I explain what an interaction is within Unity's Input System. Then I go over how the event callbacks work in the Input System, which is important to understand how interactions impact it. Then, I'll be going over each interaction individually, Press, Hold, Tap, SlowTap, and MultiTap. I explain their behavior and how they call the event callbacks in the action. Then I provide a visual explanation on the different interactions to better solidify the point.

After the main explanation is done, I go over priority of interactions, specifically having the interaction on the action versus the binding, and what happens when there are multiple interactions on the same action or binding. There is a visual example provided for that as well.

Finally, I go over a custom interaction which can be added via code or through the Input Action Asset that you create.

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►⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:08 Install Input System
0:45 Input Action Asset
1:18 Interactions Intro
1:47 What is an interaction
2:22 Event Callbacks
4:13 Press Interaction
5:00 Hold Interaction
5:25 Tap Interaction
5:44 SlowTap Interaction
6:09 MultiTap Interaction
6:45 Visual Explanation of Interactions
7:44 Code for Visual Explanation
8:05 Interactions Visual Graph
9:20 Binding & Action Interactions
10:24 Interaction Priority
11:38 Script for Multiple Interactions
12:49 Visual Explanation of Interaction Priority
13:58 Add Bindings & Interactions through Code
14:57 Get Timeout of Interactions
15:29 Custom Interactions (Shows up in Input Action Asset!)
18:46 Outro

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[beanarine]

This actually helped me understand what was wrong with my mouse interactions, as opposed to the dozens of articles and videos that just tell me "it's so simple! Here's a snippet of isolated code and 5 seconds explaining half of what's happening"

[AetherXIV]

new input system tuts are so rare. thank you for going deep on this for us

[bbp]

Your video literally saved me hours of painful trial & error tests. Thank you very much!

[schmuck]

Simple. Clear. Pertinent.
Best in class, Samyam.
Thank you so much for these!

[krissloo]

Another great video
Thank you documenting the new input system better than Unity itself did <3

[JakubMachowski]

Thanks for that. You did what unity should do with their manual. Thanks a lot for that especially things since 6:30 :)

[Dailyfiver]

This Video seriously saved my bacon. I have been struggling with understanding this for almost a month! I appreciate you being so thorough. Just subscribed, keep up the great work!

[vishalgupta]

As always... you literally are the best and go-to for the new Input System modules... Thanks for making it so clear... :) Keep it up...

[snek]

Thanks for sharing!
Now I will definitely try to apply input interactions in my current project.

[celloj]

This is exactly what I need! Thank you!

[AlarmedPizza]

Thank you for the concise instructional video!
Probably saved hours in implementing input controllers after learning this.

[xanarihstudios]

Your the only person consistently putting out new input tutorials so thank you so much! Do you think by any chance we will get a collision tutorial using the new 3rd person starter asset? Like damage detection or prompt player when they can perform certain actions by standing close enough to the target object.

[castlecodersltd]

This was brilliant, thank you for sharing

[QHuy]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for

[whiskers]

Thank you so goddamn much. I hope you keep this up.

[dallinchristensen]

Thanks for the explanation. Helped me out a lot. Cheers!

[TwinGhosts]

Very nice video, thank you! Great voice for a tutorial, and I loved the editing too.

[radinapetrova]

You are amazing ! I kind of never have seen videos which explain things in details, as you do ! If there was a scoring system in YouTube, your score would be 20 ot of 10 :) .

[ayzermiomuniverse]

Thank you for this video, great explanation, saved me a lot of time

[stefanovecchio]

Great video, it's exactly what I needed! :D