First Unity Asset Store release: Input Layers, a layer-based input filtering system – would love feedback!
First Unity Asset Store release: Input Layers, a layer-based input filtering system – would love feedback!
Use the InputLayers [Beta] from Eric Lowry on your next project. Find this GUI tool & more on the Unity Asset Store.
![InputLayers [Beta] | GUI Tools | Unity Asset Store](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/218cf846-3bf6-4edf-82fe-67e19d7a53bf.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Hi all,
I've been working on a side-project after needing something to handle UIs for a game I work on, and came up with InputLayers, which is basically a layer-based filtering system for Input handling.
My main issue was having a clean and consistent way to handle taking input availability away from something (a character, UI, or anything else) when something should take over (a menu opening, a popup, etc.)
So I ended up using this as an opportunity to learn the new Unity UI system, and set up a clean editor window. In the end, it was close enough to a packageable asset, that I felt it'd be cool to make it available to others!
It's free, so if anyone wants to give it a try, I'd love some feedback =)
Very cool. I remember finding myself so frustrated with how poor the default support was I ended up spending a whole night implementing a system of dynamically creating interaction opaque objects based on each UI element you created.
It has been a long time since I've actually used Unity but I'm very glad this exists for future people just wanting to get stuff done.
props for making it free
Thanks for the comment!
Yeah, I feel like for some reason Gaming treats UIs as some sort of unfortunate burden, and makes it a massive pain to implement. Unity's new USS system is a massive step forward, but it's still a bit complicated to get a handle on, and requires a LOT of work to make it fit in with other systems.
I was hesitant to make this free (it was quite a bit of work after all); but I think I'll leave it as is, unless I somehow start adding enough features to the point where I cannot justify the time for free. Though regardless, I plan on leaving the core version out there for free.