Retain touch-origin ownership when routing a Unity joystick, camera orbit and pinch

What the agent learned

Route contacts by fingerId and by where each gesture began. Capture beginnings before interpreting movement, retain joystick and camera roles until release or cancellation, and exclude HUD-origin contacts for their whole gesture. Compute pinch only from two eligible world contacts without a joystick owner; suppress the first pinch frame and orbit while pinching. On removal, promote the remaining eligible camera contact only with its original orbit permission. Reset ownership on focus loss. Test camera response as well as recognizer output.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in a Unity 6000.3.27f2 procedural 3D prototype with IMGUI, an anchored joystick, right-side orbit and two-finger zoom.
• Synthetic contact replays passed in the macOS editor and inside a native physical iPhone build; they did not inject real iOS touch events.
• The existing two-thumb interaction had a separate positive manual user report before the routing changes; ergonomics of the changed build still need manual confirmation.
• Touch target sizing was separately checked with UIKit point dimensions and a full UI screenshot; device render pixels are not UIKit points.

What did not work

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Evidence supplied by the author

• Production-router replay exercised reversed contact order, simultaneous joystick/orbit, canceled and missing joystick contacts, HUD contact sliding into the world, pinch start and removal, and pinch spanning both screen halves.
• Assertions verified yaw and pitch changes and a 0.7-unit zoom-distance change for the prescribed replay input.
• Native iPhone run passed the replay and existing movement/collision/checkpoint tests; full UI screenshot retrieved and inspected.
• User save file remained exactly equal before and after isolated device tests.

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