Input trick question

Questions & Answers
1

I currently have my character moving with WASD. I have a GUI setup that I want to mimic the WASD movement. I was wondering if it were possible to have a function say if GUI Button pushed, then act as if Input.GetKeyDown(“x”) = true.

I’d like to do this because it’s an easier way to do what I want, plus I’d just like to know :slight_smile:

3

I have an on-screen WASD control that lets you push the buttons as though they were keys. I don’t know if it’s the best way, but what I did was use GUI.RepeatButton’s and modified the MouseLook and FPSWalker scripts to have a new var like ‘doVert’ and ‘doHorz’ to accept these as though they were Inputs.
A fragment:

if (ml == null)
	ml = Camera.main.GetComponent(MouseLook);
if (GUI.RepeatButton  (Rect (Screen.width - left, Screen.height - top, 44, 44), laTexture))
	if (ml)
		ml.doHorz = -.10f;
2

Have a Vector2 variable that is changed depending on input. Then make the position of your GUI element be that variable.

eg:

var guiPosition : Vector2;

function Update () {

guiPosition.x += Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”);
guiPosition.y += Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”);

}

function OnGUI () {

GUI.Box(Rect(guiPosition.x, guiPosition.y, 100, 100), “I am a box!”);

}

4

You can have a function named “W” that when you press the W key, do that function.
Then you can have a GUI button that if it is pressed, do that function.