How do i make my game to focus on the IN game menu instead of the gameplay

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How do i make my game to focus on the IN game menu instead of the gameplay. When i press escape and my IN game menu opens i want the “game” to focus on the menu and not on my fps player in the background. I mean when i have opened the IN game menu and press change weapon class etc my player fires a shot in the background at the same time… How do i fix this?

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Unfortunately there isn’t a pretty solution right now; you have to create a flag.

In your character controller, check if the main menu is open. If it is, don’t take input from Input.GetKeyDown() etc. If you’re using a asset store FPS script, they might have a flag coded in there you can set.

Currently the most elegant way to solve this is to code a facade that replaces the Input class (e.g. Unity’s CrossPlatformInput class). Then you can set a universal flag to enable/disable player input. But sometimes that’s overkill depending on your situation. Maybe once Unity creates the new input system we can finally put this issue to rest.

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Thanks for your help! Can you write here kind of what the code would look like in my character controller to check if the menu is open.

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I guess i can write this in the update function in character controller? Will this code make the gameplay to “stop” while the menu is open?

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OKey thank you!