Connecting Actions to code

There are multiple ways to work with the Input System’s Actions in your code. In this section, I will give a general overview of the most important topics that should allow you to get started working with the Input System.

To connect your Actions to your code, you will need to import the InputSystem with the following statement:

using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

There are two ways in which I will discuss connecting Actions to your Code:

• Referencing the Action Asset
• Using the PlayerInput component

Note

For more information about alternate ways you can connect Actions to your code, see the following Unity documentation:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.7/manual/Workflows.html

You can reference the Action Asset creating a variable of type InputActionsAsset like so:

[SerializeField] private InputActionAsset actions;

You can then assign the value of actions in the Inspector.

And to reference...