Input.GetButton instead of Input.GetKey

Unity Engine
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Hello,

is there a way to type out a if Input.GetButton instead of a if Input.GetKet?

currently if i press “Space” my character jumps, but i made a button, now i want the player to jump if i press the button instead of the key.

I have linked the button to my script, but if i don’t have a Input.GetButton or something, my script will just loop through the update, is there a way to make a if Input.GetButton just like an if Input.GetKey?

2

Are you looking for a way to prevent pressing jump twice after you are in the air?
What is the purpose of this?

3

I want to make the Character jump with a button press ( For an android game )

The script i have now:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {

    public float playerSpeed = 5.0f;
    public float jumpheight = 5.0f;
    public bool isFalling = false;

    // Update is called once per frame
    public void Update () {
        if (Input.GetButton("Spring") && isFalling == false) {
            isFalling = true;
            transform.Translate (Vector3.up * jumpheight * Time.deltaTime);
            GetComponent<Rigidbody> ().AddForce (Vector3.up * jumpheight, ForceMode.Impulse);
            Debug.Log("test");
        }
    }
    void OnCollisionEnter (Collision col)
    {
        isFalling = false;
    }
    public void timo2 () {
        Debug.Log ("This one does work");
    }
}

My button is called “Spring”, so if i press button Spring, it needs to jump, but it doesn’t work.
if i link it to public void named timo 2, the debug.log(“This one does work”) Does show up, so the button is working.

But why isn’t it working with the update ()?

i think something went wrong with this part of the code: if (Input.GetButton("Spring") && isFalling == false) {

4

After

After a quick test; it does not appear to be anything wrong with the code, so you might be correct that there is something wrong with the “GetButton(“Spring”)” part of it.

Because I have not worked with Unity in Android, I cannot help any further than just to confirm the code works if you use a GetKey(KeyCode.Space) and press space to jump. Sorry I couldn’t be of any help :S

5

It’s not specific for android, just in general, even if i press the button within unity itself, it doesn’t work too weird enough, however the button does link to the script right because if i link it to the debug.log, the log does show up in the console.

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6

Ah, I understand.
Try to use “GetButtonDown” instead of “GetButton” and see if it works :slight_smile:

7

Doesn´t work either weird enough…

here´s my project, maybe that can help Dropbox

i just can´t see what´s the problem here, as it seems everything is set right

8

Okay it’s fixed! somehow the problem was the update, instead op public void Update (), i typed: public void timo (), and that was the point, it’s not supposed to be in the update!

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9

I’m glad you found the problem! :slight_smile:

10

Okay im back lol, im still stuck at one more thing. i really hope you know the answer to this.

Thanks in advance!