How To Use The New Enhanced Input Action Mappings In Unreal Engine 5.1 (Tutorial)

Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to use the enhanced input mappings system in Unreal Engine 5.1 that replaced the now deprecated input actions system.

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00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Overview
00:58 - Tutorial
10:23 - Final Overview
10:45 - Outro
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[sayyambharadwaj]

Matt, please tell me where i can give you a donation, genuinely speaking your a god, and i love your work and tuts from the bottom of my heart, im a student and you sir are not only a true teacher, but you are the master

[Dr_Tripper]

Matt, I am on Day 2 of self learning Unreal 5.1. I have dreamed all of my life of a time when I could just sit back and code. Now is that time some 35 years later :) As the world burns, we can create! I am fortunate to have found your channel. You have given a great deal of confidence to a beginner, thank you.

[pvtpinecone]

People who teach us for free like you deserve way more recognition! Thank you so much for these and please don't stop! :)

[NightFoxZero]

This is super intersting because this is the same type of change Untiy did to their input actions system when they changed over to Unity 5, however it looks way more practical in unreal. Having the hold time to trigger certain actions sounds like a God-send considering I had to recently figure out a convoluted mess to do something similar. My project is still super early so I may switch over lol

[vexan_twitch]

DAMN POWERFUL I was thinking of making some 1v1 closeup fights with enemies so any output of the action mappings would be amazingly helpful!! thanks for the video and can't wait to watch you go deeper into this!

[arturosukovich]

BRO I Literally just started trying to use it yesterday, you are straight PSYCHIC with your tutorials. Keep it up!

[DWithLairdWT]

Great rundown! Definitely a helpful video.

It's worth noting that you don't *need* to do a Cast check if the BP is only ever going to be for your Player, you can just "Get Player Controller" -> Enhanced Input Local Player Subsystem.

[RGARCHIVE]

i was stuck on some stuff with this until i watched this video, cleared up everything i was stuck with, thanks for the great tuts all the time, you make some of my fav UE5 tutorials.
I am excited to mess around with the mapping contexts.

[xristosboom]

Matt We are so lucky that we have you Updating and Explaining so good !!! UE 5.1
Question ( This works Also with Doors Open Closed - Zoom In Out )Etc
Plz do a video for simple Blueprints
Doors
Elevators
Zoom In Out
Mouse Sensitivity Player Camera Rotation
Crouch
Run
<3 <3

[GordonSeal]

The new Enhanced Input System is a mess: 1. Allowing the players to remap them ingame requires you to build a dedicated save-game system just for the Enhanced Inputs, because the inputs are data-files now and thus reset every time the game starts.

2. The values in the enhanced inputs do NOT reset, meaning axis mapping (e.g. Move Forward & Move Backward) requires you to set the value of the input to zero again after "Cancelled" or "Completed".

3. You have to create all these data assets, generating more possibilities for bugs to appear - since Unreals file dependencies are prone to errors.

4. Creating inputs takes way longer than it did with the old system. Equally changing your inputs takes way longer, as you now have to go through all these files instead of having them all cleanly in one place.

5. I personally don't like all that logic in the new inputs ticking in the background, although the impact is rather negligible. I also don't like the necessity to cast for adding input contexts (as I don't use the controller for inputs), but that's just me.

6. Switching input methods requires more work now and is way more convoluted than it did before. Before all an input switch took was a branch after the input function, wheres now you not only have to handle all these extra input data files, (cast and) add the input context, but you also have to recreate all this extra logic for the inputs.

7. Prototyping with the Enhanced Input system takes way longer than it did before. Wanna just quickly set up a project to test out something? Well now you have to create all these input data assets for it to work.
It's also way harder for a team to prototype, as now everyone has to learn and completely understand the new Enhanced Input system, whereas before everyone could understand & edit the inputs by just looking at the Project Settings page.

There is nothing you couldn't do with the old system, Epic should have just expanded and overhauled the old system with new options, instead of deprecating a good, working system.

[antoniobanderas]

this is what i needed!! Love y'all <3

[thhm]

Thank you Matt, super concise and helpful.

[IamNeighborlee]

not working here. On changing these input files, right click > input, I see no new 'add inputmappings' inside blueprint for character.

[draicor]

Super useful Matt, your teachings are amazing!

[Jackfromstatefarm]

is there a tutoral with your old weapon pickup system but with the new action mapping?

[FF-FAN]

Great video. If you can do player mapping at some point would be great as I'm curious about remapping keys

[justsharki]

Just a quick heads up. I can't say for when the video has been uploaded but now the Enhanced Input is a plugin and you should enable it in order to use the functionality.

[RiverFox_YT]

my character doesnt have those new nodes in there

[realNoobDog]

Im using this for a Car game but i have a Problem and no solution to it:
Im holding the D key to steer right
When i start holding A same time as D and then release D it still goes right like i am holding D but im holding A
i dont know why and if anybody has a solution pls help
im using the chaos vehicle plugin for the car btw
any help helps thx

[leons]

Ever since I upgraded to 5.1 with Native Enhanced Input I cannot get Local Multiplayer to work Properly, my second device remains on Player Controller 0 and if I add a 3rd one it isn't even used. Maybe you could take a look at these in the future, would really appreciate it :D