How to convert new unity input system input actions to booleans

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So I’ve looked around quite a bit for this and haven’t had much luck. I’m pretty new and guess that this is a pretty simple problem but I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere. I’m trying to transfer a game’s input system from the old one to the new system so I can add gamepad support. I’m trying to use a Brackey’s tutorial.

Before I was using a simple Boolean method for input

jumping = Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space);

But when I try replacing that with

jumping = controls.Player.Jump

(I’ve checked and all of those words are correct)

I get this error:

error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type ‘UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction’ to ‘bool’

So is there a way to get a boolean from new input, or should I go about this another way entirely? Thank you for any answers.

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InputAction is an action. You dont need to convert it to a bool you just set the callback to a method with the correct signature and when the event happens it will call that method. If you want to set a bool as a result of it just add the bool setting code to the body of that method/ function.