For those who want split-keyboard play: -Make 2 control schemes of type Keyboard on your InputActionAsset. -Assign the different keys to the corresponding control schemes (e.g. WASD and Arrow Keys) -Now, you can either manually spawn the two players using their respective control schemes: var p1 = PlayerInput.Instantiate(playerPrefab, controlScheme: "KeyboardLeft", device: Keyboard.current); var p2 = PlayerInput.Instantiate(playerPrefab, controlScheme: "KeyboardRight", device: Keyboard.current); forum.unity.com/threads/2-players-on-same-input-device.763949/ docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput.html -Or once the first or second player has joined (you can subscribe to the Player Joined event), switch the control scheme on the player with SwitchCurrentControlScheme(…) docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_PlayerInput_SwitchCurrentControlScheme_System_String_UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputDevice___ -Make sure to disable the auto switch component on the Player Input so it doesn’t switch between different devices/control schemes.

Man. You never fail to give exactly what Im looking for. Thank you so much for these videos

This is the only tutorial that worked for me. I've been trying to make a multiplayer game for a long time now but I never understood the new input system. Great tutorial!

Wonderful, I was secretly hoping you would make a video one day on exactly THIS! Thank you :-)

These are easily some of the best Unity tutorials on KZfaq. Great video!

This was fantastic, thank you very much for this. It solved a few problems for me, somewhere along the way my old control scheme was tangled up and it was controlling 2 characters at once, and for the life of me I couldnt figure out where it was coming from. Following this tutorially helped immensely with my issue so thanks again

That was a very good tutorial, you got to the point and didn't waste my time, well done.

Dope tutorial. Been messing with new input system about 3 years ago and it was such a mess back then. Had to create my own library for handling all of the devices connecting and reconnecting, there was no documentation and the one exisitng was thrash. But here with 15 mins tutorial I can get it all working like a charm. Finally Unity made a closure to this system and it can be easily used.

It's a magic! Thank you so much! I love you samyam, you are the best!

Best Unity tutorials on YT. Thank you so much for this!

Woah! What a timing! Just what I was looking for. Brilliant tutorial.

I found a way of getting using the same pad/keyboard method - add two action maps, and put each of the actions relating to each player in them. Don't forget to add each of the player's settings in the events

Excellent as always 🙏🏾

Thanks that was exactly what i needed

Helpful vid. Two things... 1: KEYBOARD BASS HYPE!!!! 2: If you add inputs while in a control scheme, it'll automatically tick that control scheme's checkbox. Weird way to say it, but you probably get what I mean ; ]

Could you please do a video on how to do local multiplayer with existing objects? For example, I have two teams and I want a player to be able to control each team.

Thank you very much! Very useful tutorial!

Exactly what I was looking for! Great video!

Thanks Samyam! Really appreciate this video :)

This tutorial has saved me! I was scared I'd have to watch 30 minutes of someone explaining how to code multiplayer in a near-silent voice. Thanks! I have one question; so far, I've watched up to 9:25, why is nothing coming up when I click on the function button but "MonoScript"? Do you have any idea why?

anyone know how to fix: Assets\scripts\PlayerController.cs(14,13): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'vector2' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Dynamic "CallbackContext" doesnt show for me (9:26) Im on 2021.3.22 . Ive gone back and forth over this, but its not showing. anyone else come across this, or know why? My OnJump and OnMove are public voids too.

Thank you.

This is the only tutourial i found that actually worked and it was the most simple one lol. I do have a question tho. I'm striving to make a local co-op fps game and it looks a bit weird when everyone has the same character model. How do I set up specific players to spawn in. Ex- player one is a cube, player 2 is a sphere, player three is an octopus, and player 4 is a snake. Those aren't my models btw just trying to make myself clear lmao

does anyone know why in the player controller function why onMove and onJump dont show up? (im doing this in 2D mode btw)

Hi, thanks for the amazing tutorial. However, I have issues with my gamepad input and keyboard input mixing up with eachother. My movement is functioning as it should, but anything else such as shooting/crouching/jumping inputs are applied on both of the players whenever I start using gamepad. Thanks for the help

On point and up to date. Great tutorial.

I am using a fps controller but when i add two players both of them move.

Thanks! This was really useful!

Love your Tutorials :)

Nice tutorial, thanks for sharing.

Great video, thank you!

THANKK YOUUU

So helpful! Thank you!

Very good tutorial. Thank you so much :)

thx for this vid it helped me a lot :)

Great video. Thanks a lot :D

Thanks alot for this tutorial this helped alot, I can't seem to figure out how to assign a gamepad to a gameobject with PlayerInput in the scene without spawning it when pressing a button. I need them both to exist at the start of the game

Ok I followed the tutorial but my keyboard and controller inputs have become combined. I have no idea how to fix it

thanks for the the awesome tutoril

Awesome video and really well explained! Instant sub from me :)

You have a new subscriber!

I have 2 gamepads (XBox) and 2 characters, but they both move at the same time. How do I prevent this?

Can you add two controllers? If yes then how?

Hello! I followed this tutorial and it was great. What I want to know is how to start my game with the 2 characters already spawned in and able to be controlled. I was trying to make a script that would simply press spacebar and the 'A' button once when the scene loads, but that proved to be too difficult. Thank you!

is this possible with 2 controllers

Awesome tutorial! How are players removed / split screen put back to non-split? I want players to join, die, go away, and join anew, like old arcade games where the second player can stop playing for a while and then hit start to come back in. But it looks like PlayerInputManager has no way to manually invoke or force a player to leave.

I made this in unity 2d and The player goes through objects with collider 2ds, how could I change this? Great tutorial by the way.

Is there a way to assign device to player that is ALREADY in the scene ?

Hi! This is great solution and all works fine, but i have a possibly dumb question. I decided to go a little further and set spawn points for each player, and here I am a little confused due to the number of fields and options in the player input manager. As I understand it, it is necessary to create the necessary empty objects on the stage for the spawn points themselves, but where and how is the player’s spawn function called and how can I set the spawn point? Should i use manual join behavior? How to setup Player Join Events correctly? May be there is a simple solution but there is so many questions in my head right now)))

Hey, if you are ok with answering on an old video (lol) I have a question. So is there a difference in this between 3d and 2d games? I am making a local multiplayer smash bros type game except with guns. It's very rudimentary as of now. I have the controls working on my gamepad and it runs smoothly, the problem comes in when I try to go multiplayer. Currently when I spawn a player in I have no input. So for example I built my input and controls, turned the player into a prefab, deleted player from scene, and added the prefab to the player manager, and now controls don't work anymore. I even used debug statements and the actions arnt being called for some reason. Note: I am using two controllers as I plan to have up to 8 players. If you respond I will love you forever lol Edit: I subbed btw. This is the best input system tutorial out there rn!

How do I get the start and release Button information in OnJump(). Want to make a jump like in mario holding down to increase hight. But I cannot understand how to do it with this. I know how to do it with singel player using WasPerformedThisFrame, and WasReleasedThisFrame(). I just don't know how to write it with local 2 player in mind.

Great tutorial, Simple and easy to understand but I have a glitch that when a controller disconnects and then reconnects it creates a new instance of the player and doesn’t reconnect to the old player is there anyway to fix this or is it something completely different

Great tutorial! But is there a way to get the cube to not be floating off the ground? EDIT: figured out the answer if anyone else has the same issue, chagne the skin width on the "Character Controller" component to 0

Best tutorial on the new input system i've watched, it helped me a lot

How could I get the position data from the spawned players?

Just wondering, is there any way to modify the follow camera so it uses a anchor for the camera rotation like in a camera orbit script? Currently the scripts conflict with another since the CameraFollow uses the player transform as a target, and I want to be able to use the split screen look with a rotating camera for each player. Thank you again for your help on my original comment!

I am 99% sure that I will not get an answer but my problem is that no functions are appearing in player events except monoscript Am I missing something?

How can u add players depending on the controller u are using? kinda like street fighter game? Is it really difficult? Thanks.

If possible can there be a part 2

Great Video Sam thank you! I have some questions though, I hope you don't mind answering to an old video. I'm currently working on a local split-screen multiplayer mode for my game and I want to primarily use controllers for gameplay. I have an issue where both characters are controller by one controller. The spawning works on the second controller but I don't have separate control over the other character which is very weird plus the documentation doesn't have a good way of explaining this, do you have any possible suggestions to fix this? Do I have to create a second control scheme for player 2 and bind the same buttons on the controller and manually set the scheme in code? Thanks in advance :)

Good Job

Would this kind of approach work for A VR setup on Android running quest/pico headset?

What do I need to change if I want two different game characters?

I have a question: does make sense to add a different Player Input Manager for each player?

This is one of the most well explained tutorials I've found! Thank you so much for sharing and teaching. I have a question though. I followed all the steps but my keyboard and my controller move both of my characters in sync. Any idea why? I've created two different control schemes

Great tutorial, could you make a tutorial on swipe detection with the new input system?

your fingers are machines!!

So I followed you and when I went to move my player, it did nothing. Any help would be awesome. I really want to learn these subjects.

Great Tutorial! I have one question though, how do I achieve the same effect with one keyboard? I made to schemes with different inputs however when I press the button to join the player only one will join.

Hello, I wonder how to use 2 joysticks to control different players, is that supported in vanilla unity?

Hi Samyam, I can appreciate this was made about a year ago now, do we know if cinemachine supports this yet?

Hey Sam, great video once again ! I was wondering what way is the better (offers most of features/best performance) between using the Component "Player Input" or writing directly in script controls.Player.Jump.performed += _ => my_function() ? Thanks a lot

Would this still work if I used 2 game padd

I have this all working with a Rigidbody2d instead of a Movement Controller. Both characters (keyboard/controller) run & jump, but after running the game once, the PlayerInput component in my Player prefab loses the "Actions: Input Action Asset" reference to PlayerControls. Anyone have an idea why this happens?

What about 2 controllers?

Can i use this in Genarate C# class?

I spent whole 2 days making the mechanics of the game and the player... until when i use the player input manager and it doesn’t work for me it just spawns another player but both controllers can control him, sometimes it doesn’t spawn a player just the two controllers moving one character... i give up...😓😪

thank you so much! i was able to create a basketball demo for my project i did it in 2D, i am now trying to do a 2d shooting game problem is, my play-testers had much confusion on who was who how can I change the color of a cube/sprite when they join?

I was struggling to make one keyboard for many (at least 2 players) players to work, but... there are so many bugs there. PlayerInputManager is missing reference for new players when the second player use the same device (keyboard). There are some hacky solutions with creating Virtual Device Keyboard, but... meh. For now, don't try to use same device for many players with this system. If I'm wrong, comment below. Anyway, really good tutorial with keyboard+gamepad setup!

Hi, I really need some help, I currently have it all working everything is set up like yours except I have the wasd and arrowkeys instead. I go to play it and only one of the characters will move! The second character just won't move at all, If anyone could help me with this, that would be amazing

i am also doing this in 2d

How would i go about doing this but with multiple characters? To specify i am meaning like two different characters in a fighting game have same buttons but different results. How would one do this? My apologies for poor explanation

goated

help, when I connect my Xbox controller the player keeps jumping for some reason

Nice video, but its is possible this with two o more players each playing with a gamepad?, do you need will create two o more schema controllers with gamepad?

hey i am very stuck on how to spawn players at certain places and not just to the origin of a prefab. eg. i want2 cars to spawn at two different parking spots in a parking lot.... if anyone has any ideas pls let me know

very good

Valeu!

How is it possible to create multiple players with one keyboard? I followed your instructions and created a second control scheme for ijkl, but everytime i want to "spawn" a second player nothing happens and the first player follows the instructions of ijkl aswell. Great video btw :)

Question. Why is there the player parent prefab instead of simply the player prefab? Why use the extra step?

This tutorial feels very lacking. I saw most of the solutions suggested to me led here although what we're seen here is not 2020+ couch party.. this is old 1990 couch party where you would want different controls for different player. My problem is both players using controllers (as it would actually happen in 2020+). This tutorial doesn't show how to use the same controller with the same exact inputs for two different players and more.. I recommend updating the tutorial if you found out how to crack this one., but I would not call this local multiplayer nowadays...

@samyam Help, it won't let me jump (or in my case, shoot) It tells me this error (if you can help me!) : InvalidOperationException while executing 'started' callbacks of 'PC / Shoot [/ Keyboard / m]' UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel. C__DisplayClass7_0: b__0 (NativeInputUpdateType, NativeInputEventBuffer *) UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem: NotifyUpdate (NativeInputUpdateType, IntPtr) (at C: /buildslave/unity/build/Modules/Input/Private/Input.cs: 117) InvalidOperationException: Cannot read value of type 'Boolean' from control '/ Keyboard / m 'bound to action' PC / Shoot [/ Keyboard / m] '(control is a' KeyControl 'with value type' float ') UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionState.ReadValue [TValue] (System.Int32 bindingIndex, System.Int32 controlIndex, System.Boolean ignoreComposites) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0.1/InputSystem/Actions/InputActionStatem/Actions/InputActionStatem/Actions/InputActionStatem/Actions/InputActionStatem 2020) UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction + CallbackContext.ReadValue [TValue] () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0.1/InputSystem/Actions/InputAction.cs: 1433) PlayerControllerPC.OnAtack (UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction + CallbackContext context) (at Assets / Scripts / PlayerControllerPC.cs: 43) UnityEngine.Events.InvokableCall`1 [T1] .Invoke (T1 args0) (at C: /buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEvent/UnityEvent.cs: 207) UnityEngine.Events.UnityEvent`1 [T0] .Invoke (T0 arg0) (at C: /buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/UnityEvent/UnityEvent/UnityEvent_1.cs: 58) UnityEngine.InputSystem.Utilities.DelegateHelpers.InvokeCallbacksSafe [TValue] (UnityEngine.InputSystem.Utilities.InlinedArray`1 [System.Action`1 [TValue]] & callbacks, TValue argument, System.String callbackName, System.Object context) (at context Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0.1/InputSystem/Utilities/DelegateHelpers.cs: 51) UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel. C__DisplayClass7_0: b__0 (NativeInputUpdateType, NativeInputEventBuffer *) UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem: NotifyUpdate (NativeInputUpdateType, IntPtr) (at C: /buildslave/unity/build/Modules/Input/Private/Input.cs: 117)

Yooo you are sooo skilled programmer. Why don't you make a game and publish it on "play store"? l believe you will get 10.000.000 downloads.

Hi Sam would you mind making atutorial step by step on character creation using Unity Input System and Bolt together..Thanks..

Can we add 2 or more player using just keyboard Like p1: W A S D And p2: Arrow keys

Nice 🥴👍

if my players look different? I mean different prefabs

Sorry Sam I have seen the notification of your response to my vector3 spawn question…but the comment have disappear and I can’t read your answer 😭. Can you copy and paste under this comment and I hope it don’t disappear this time.

Will this work with 2 controllers?