Can the built in UI Navigation be replaced with a custom scripted one?

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#1

Hello! Been designing UI for my game, and I do want it to be more friendly for console players, but at least to me the UI Navigation for when you press the select or backslash button seems to have a mind of its own when it navigates UI.

Is there a way to replace this system with one I make myself? Can I retain the backslash/select button key bind to it as well?

#2

Both questions are possible.
Here’s a little sample where you can script what happens when say a player presses ButtonA.

local GuiService = game:GetService("GuiService")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

-- Disable default Gamepad Nav system.
GuiService.GamepadNavigationEnabled = false

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessedEvent)
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Gamepad1 then -- Check for Gamepad1
        if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.ButtonA then
			print("ButtonA has been pressed.")
			--some logic
        elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.ButtonB then
            print("ButtonB has been pressed.")
        	--some more logic
        end
    end
end)

You can use ContextActionService:BindAction() to get any input and change it.

Only thing is you’ll have to implement your own navigation logic, (and not pretending I know this) but that sounds pretty hard.

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#3

I can’t believe I never heard of GuiService?? Thanks a ton though!

The navigation logic I have in mind though is actually really simple though. I was just thinking of assigning each select-able element 4 other elements to move to according to each of the 4 D-Pad directions.

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