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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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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