tutorials/inputs/inputevent

[giscus[bot]]

tutorials/inputs/inputevent

What is it?: Managing input is usually complex, no matter the OS or platform. To ease this a little, a special built-in type is provided, InputEvent. This datatype can be configured to contain seve...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/inputs/inputevent.html

[enetheru]

Under the heading 'How does it work?' points 6 and 7 are mostly duplicates.

[GeminiSquishGames]

5 is "Mostly" the same too, but each of the 3 describe a different method from each other. "Mostly" sure, but each different enough to explain each method with caveats from the rest. Explicitly declare your documentation and your scripts, yo. Best practice.

[DaltonSW]

Is there a reason that the recommendation is to check IsActionPressed in _Process instead of _UnhandledInput? The docs are worded like you must check @event for info. Seems like it could be more efficient to do your various action checks in the input-triggered function so they're not running every frame

[GeminiSquishGames]

It says, "However, it is cleaner and more flexible to use the provided InputMap feature..." and explains how to do do it arbitrarily with the Input class. The check is pretty negligible and IIRC event is populated every frame anyway by the DisplayServer class, so no savings happen under the hood, so the check is the same regardless if you do it in the game loop or one of the input process events, it's just checking the already populated event either way each frame. Also, Input.event has the methods ...JustPressed, ...JustReleased, and ...RawStrength for actions, which again IIRC don't work on the @event object inside of input process events.

[jgedri]

If this is a tutorial, it spends little time on explaining how to do things.

[Calinou]

Please open issues on https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs to request documentation improvements, and be specific about what needs to be changed.

[HalfDeafDev]

I don't believe we should consider this a tutorial, this is documentation on using InputEvent.

Tutorials take you from point A to point B, normally through hand holding, that keeps the messy details away.

Documentation gives brief examples without context and exposes you to messy details.

[zmra]

I found this video to be helpful in untangling inputevents and input handling in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfX00eQIRCU