Xbox 360 Joystick support

[YouGroove]

didn"t find it in LE 3.1 , it is possible actualy to have joystick ?

 

Would be great to support general joystick and Xbox 360 one .

[Josh]

Aria is adding support for the Steam Controller right now. It's a much better input device; it's basically got the precision of a mouse in a gamepad form factor.

[Rick]

So how true is that precision of a mouse in a gamepay? I assume you used it at Valve? I have a hard time believing that can honestly be achieved.

[Guppy]

So how true is that precision of a mouse in a gamepay? I assume you used it at Valve? I have a hard time believing that can honestly be achieved.

 

 

Would be good to add support for regulare controllers aswell tho the ps3/ouya/xbox ones are more widespread and being able to use those aswell would be a huge plus for the game / engine

[AggrorJorn]

Yeps, I use the xbox controller for windows daily.

[Michael_J]

In preparation for switching to LE I recently implemented SDL 2.0 into my game code for joystick/gamepad support. I know it's not native, but it's a cross-platform library, easy to implement, and free. I was reading data from my controllers in about 20 minutes.

 

It's a c++ lib, so obviously this probably wouldn't help the LUA users too much. Maybe Josh could implement it directly assuming the license allows for it in something like LE? You only activate the modules you want to use, so it's pretty low overhead...

[gamecreator]

Does SDL support non-Xbox controllers? I shared controller code before for LE2 but it was Windows only (http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/299-joystick-gamepad-example/).

[DudeAwesome]

yes

 

http://wiki.libsdl.org/APIByCategory#Input_Events

 

also I played some games coded with SDL and dont use xbox controller

[Michael_J]

Yeah, I've tested my SDL implementation with a Saitek X52 and a G-25 wheel and pedal set--works great.

 

edit: what DudeAwesome said

[YouGroove]

Would be good to add support for regulare controllers aswell tho the ps3/ouya/xbox ones are more widespread and being able to use those aswell would be a huge plus for the game / engine

 

+1

Lot of gamers like a lot simple controller like XBox 360, specially with all indie and arcade games. Simple but effective.

Not all people will buy a SteamController (beware of Ouya effect).

 

 

 

also I played some games coded with SDL and dont use xbox controller

 

 

If someone could make a lib or something that could be used in Lua would be awesome.

[Rick]

Did you forget how to quote on the forums YouGroove

[Guppy]

Seems SDL have an agreeable license these days ( used to be lgpl ), but can you break away the input part of sdl from the rest of the framework?

[DudeAwesome]

Seems SDL have an agreeable license these days ( used to be lgpl ), but can you break away the input part of sdl from the rest of the framework?

 

the sourcecode is available so its possible but you have to do it by yourself to extract your needed classes

[Guppy]

the sourcecode is available so its possible but you have to do it by yourself to extract your needed classes

 

Since I was talking about the license change ( from lgpl to zlib ) it's entirely reasonable to think I am well aware that the project is opensource. Given this perhaps one could deduct that I was asking if the project was designed in such a way as to let you use pieces - in this case input specifically - independently of the rest of the framework.

[MoustafaChamli]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I've been having trouble getting SDL to work with Leadwerks on Linux. It builds fine on Windows, but I've been getting the following error: ‘SDL_GameControllerAxis’ is not a class or namespace

 

I set up Code::Blocks to use these:

Compiler search directories: /usr/include/SDL2

Link libraries: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSDL2.so

Options: -lSDL2 -lSDL2main

 

Am I missing anything? Could I be pointed in the right direction? I have installed the libsdl2-2.0-0 and libsdl2-dev (with the ":i386" option) packages.

 

Thanks!