Input System UI menu navigation not working? Here's a solution.

[richdrummer280]

Hi folks,

I encountered what appears to me to be a bug with the input system, where navigation did not work with my gamepad/controller - but did work with my keyboard - when pointing the InputSystemUIInputModule to my custom Input Actions Asset. By pointing InputSystemUIInputModule to the DefaultInputActions asset that Unity generates, the problem was solved.

Background: I created a custom Input Actions Asset with Player, UI, Game (etc) action maps. In the scene, I pointed the InputSystemUIInputModule to my custom Input Actions Asset and all the UI actions were appropriately mapped to the correct UI actions (e.g. “Move” was set to “UI / Navigate”). The “Navigate” is configured identically to the default input actions asset that Unity generates for you. Nonetheless, UI-navigation only worked with keyboard arrow keys/WASD and not controller/gamepad inputs. No idea why.

This link helped me out:

UI doesn't responds with Custom Input Assets

If you decided use the New Input System with UI you can have some problem - UI wouldn’t react if you use your custom Input Assets. By default when you create the Player Input component (by default the field UI Input Module set to None) [7305883--885154--DefaultPlayerInput.JPG] If you after that create the Event System (its create automatically if you create some UI element, by example - button), It have the default value in field Action Asset (DefaultInputActions). In this case all will work…

Hope this helps for those experiencing similar issues! Hopefully someone can elaborate on why this does not work as intended (or at least work intuitively).

-Rich

[unity_w_4Al7TOGojjkg]

hi, same issue here. no idea to fix that…