Temporary disable entry in input map (or, how to make wasd work for everything)

croxis

I am making a little spaceship game where the player uses wasd to move their astronaut around, but can walk up to a control panel (pressing the f key to activate) and then use wasd to fly the spaceship around. There are other control panels too that will have other interactions (weapons, etc).

In other words, I only want input to go through the in-game device the player is interacting with. I am not sure the best practice for it. Is it better to have a bunch of actions listed in the project InputMap, and modify the keybindings with add_action and erase_action? I hope to add touch screen support later so I imagine this could get messy.

Or would it be better to leave InputMap alone, and add an is_listening boolean to my nodes before processing the input events?

TwistedTwigleg

I’d suggest the latter: adding a Boolean that tells the script to process input or not. That way, you have finer control over what systems have input and which do not, as well as not having to worry about the state that the input mapping may be in. Both routes are viable though, but if it was my project, I’d go for using a Boolean.