Where are these unexpected GetButtonDown events coming from?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to register distinct button presses from different joysticks i have plugged in, but somehow the code i have acts as though the buttons of all joysticks are being pressed at once when any of them is pressed. I think I’m making a simple mistake somewhere:

Here’s how my inputs are set up: http://imgur.com/k6qMW

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I have the following script attached to my camera in my otherwise empty scene:

 function Update () {
     var j=0;
     while(j<3){
     var f = Input.GetButtonDown("FireButton"+(j+1));
     if(f){
     Debug.Log("FireButton:"+(j+1));
     }
     j++;
     }
    }

What I was expecting is that when I pressed the first firebutton on my first joystick, i’d get a single log item: “FireButton:1”. But instead I get three items printed to the console: “FireButton:1”, “FireButton:2”, “FireButton:3” and I’m not understanding why. Can anyone point out where I’m going wrong here?

3

Looks to me like ‘joystick button 0’ is used for all your soft buttons. Try changing those. As it is now, I would expect the exact behavior you are seeing.

2

Have you mapped the joystick controls to the input manager?

Also, input is generally handled as the following:

void Update() {
    if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) {
        // do something pertaining to that button
    }
}