Gamepad Cursor with Input System - Unity Tutorial

Make a custom gamepad cursor using Unity's New Input System. This way you can navigate UI using a controller similar to a mouse.

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►🔗 Relevant Video Links 🔗 ᐅ Virtual Mouse Input System Documentation https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.1/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.UI.VirtualMouseInput.html ᐅ Kenney - Crosshair Pack https://www.kenney.nl/assets/crosshair-pack

In this video I show you how to make a gamepad virtual mouse cursor that can navigate around the scene and interact with the UI. This works with the new input system, any canvas scale and canvas type, the PlayerInput component, and you can adapt it further to fit your needs easily.

We use a gamepad or controller and pipe the input to a Virtual Mouse in the Input System. In our Input Action Asset UI map (created from the PlayerInput component), we add actions for the position and click of the Virtual Mouse. That input action asset is used in the Event System to replace the system mouse values.

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►⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️ 0:00 Intro 0:38 Install Input System 1:07 Gamepad Cursor Samples 1:57 Set up Scene 2:44 Create Cursor UI Image 4:27 Gamepad Cursor Script 19:51 PlayerInput and Input Action Asset 22:46 Debugging & Fixes 24:38 Preview working 25:40 Add Cursor Padding 26:40 OnControlsChanged Switching Between Mouse & Gamepad 33:28 Quick Null Reference Errors Fix 33:55 ScrollView Preview 34:18 Outro

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