How to set a boolean to true, when pressing a button, and keep it without changing to false again,How to set a boolean true when pressing a button, without letting it change to false again?

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1

Hi,
I wanted to check if my player is holding a gun, so I can play different animations.
I set a bool as a parameter called HoldingGun (false). I wanted to make it true when the player hit the key
(“g”). It is like a mode change from Idle to shooter. and that works, except that the boolean is just true, as long as I am pressing “g”, what is not what I want.
Is there a way to set a boolean true, as long as I press another key? And without holding the “G” key?

Here is my code:

    void Update()
    {
        animator.SetBool("HoldingGun", false);

        if (Input.GetKey("g"))
        {
            HoldGun = true;
            animator.SetBool("HoldingGun", true);
        }
3

void Start()
{
animator.SetBool(“HoldingGun”, false);
}

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown("g") && !HoldGun)
    {
        HoldGun = true;
        animator.SetBool("HoldingGun", true);
    }
}
4

@unity_3DmGkY57st7DXQ I don’t know if it will help but if you are wanting like a toggle type of effect when ever you press the key you set up you could just set the bool value to be what it isn’t.

Example:
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.J))
{
Hand = !Hand;
}

This would make it so if the value of Hand is false, pressing the button would change it to true. Pressing it again would change it back to false.

I don’t know if this helps but just a suggestion for having the value invert on button press when dealing with bools.

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void Update()
{
animator.SetBool(“HoldingGun”, false);

     if (Input.GetKeyDown("g"))
     {
         HoldGun = true;
         animator.SetBool("HoldingGun", true);
     }