Action Hold

Push and hold to do a thing 💡

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Introduction

Part of the Interaction Tools of the UX Complete asset

Ever play a game that asked you to push an hold a button for some period of time to activate the action?

The Action Hold event componenets do just that and are designed to work with Unity's "new Input System"

This componenet is available in two flavors

ActionHoldGameEvent

For use with Heathen Game Events

ActionHoldUnityEvent

For use with standard Unity Events

Definition

Fields and Attributes

Type	Name	Notes
InputAction	action	The action to monitor
float	holdTime	How long the action should be held
bool	useUnscaledTime	Should time scale be considered

Events

Start

Occurs when the action is first started to be held

Cancel

Occurs when the action is released before a complete

Complete

Occurs when the action is fully held for its duration

Progressed

Updated per frame noting the total progress