What I would like to do is have a way to reference the input button regardless of what the player changes the controls to.
For instance if the player changes the guard button to Z instead of X, I would like a way to tell the player, hey press “proper button” to guard. I can handle everything else, just a bit clueless as how to properly reference the inputs.
How would I go about doing that? I already have my controls set up btw.
Unfortunately that's not possible at the moment since you have absolutely no access to the input manager from your scripts.
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At the moment the only way around that is to disable the input manager so the user can't change the button, or use your own custom inputmanager. AFAIK there is a ready-to-use implementation in the asset store, but i guess not for free ;)
edit
Maybe i was wrong. This one seems to be free ;)