InputMan - A Modern Input Management Library for Stride

[yuechen-li-dev]

Hi everyone, I'm excited to share InputMan, a new input management library in pure C# I've built specifically for Stride (with an engine-agnostic core).

What is InputMan? InputMan provides professional-grade input handling with awesome features you'd expect from modern game engines:

1. Action maps, similar to Unity's current Input System, but with a consumption based layer architecture to reduce the need for map swapping and "two different inputs from different maps on the same key fired at the same time"
2. Multiple gamepad support out of the box
3. Full in-game rebinding system with automatic profile saving
4. Profile in either C# code or included JSON serialization out of the box, easily extensible
5. Built in deadzone, scale and invert input processors to simplify implementing Invert Y axis
6. Chord binding, so things like "Hold down Shift+W to sprint" or "Ctrl+S to save" works.
7. In the future, I want to implement things like fighting game sequence mapping (shoryuken, konami code, etc.) and touch gestures.

The source code is on my github: https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/InputMan, with a little demo game based on Stride's third person platformer template that demonstrates rebinding and "Left Shift+W to Sprint".

📦 NuGet: InputMan.Core | InputMan.StrideConn

It's well tested and well documented on my own system, so I'd like to release it out to the wild to get some thoughts, suggestions, and feedback from the real world.

For anyone facing issues like this: #2478, get it from nuget or the github repo, try it out, and let me know what you think.

[VaclavElias]

If you would like, you can make a PR here https://doc.stride3d.net/latest/en/community-resources, where ever it should be added, including multiple sections e.g. here https://doc.stride3d.net/latest/en/community-resources/example-projects.html

[yuechen-li-dev]

Done. PR opened on the docs to the Input section.

[VaclavElias]

It was merged before you exhaled and typed your latest message 😃.

[yuechen-li-dev]

Thanks!

I have a lot more tooling projects that I've been working on for Stride in private that aren't super ready yet, InputMan was the closest to the finish line and I managed to push it through. Really want to see how it does in the field.

Stay tuned for more cool stuff.