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[Metrospecies]

Heres a question, is it possible to use a non 360 for windows controller?

I have a fairly cheap one that i would like to use for game development, but it isn't registered by visual studio.

Also http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/ is an emulator for non 360 controllers by putting the files in the main folder, however it doesn't read in Visual Studio 2010's main folder, would i have to be more specific and put it in the main XNA folder?

Cheers

[Kasc]

Use SlimDX's direct input library, you access the joystick like so:

[source lang="csharp"] Joystick joystick; int joystickButtonCount; int joystickAxesCount; JoystickState joystickState, oldJoystickState; public Game() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); Content.RootDirectory = "Content"; CreateDevice(); } ... protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime) { joystickState = joystick.GetCurrentState(); bool[] buttons = joystickState.GetButtons(); Console.Clear(); Console.WriteLine("Using device: {0}\nButton count: {1}\nAxes count: {2}\n", joystick.Information.ProductName, joystickButtonCount, joystickAxesCount); for (int i = 0; i < joystickButtonCount; i++) { Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", i + 1, buttons[i]); } } void CreateDevice() { DirectInput dinput = new DirectInput(); foreach (DeviceInstance device in dinput.GetDevices(DeviceClass.GameController, DeviceEnumerationFlags.AttachedOnly)) { try { joystick = new Joystick(dinput, device.InstanceGuid); joystickAxesCount = joystick.Capabilities.AxesCount; joystickButtonCount = joystick.Capabilities.ButtonCount; break; } catch { } } if (joystick == null) { Console.WriteLine("No devices"); return; ; } joystick.Acquire(); foreach (DeviceObjectInstance deviceObject in joystick.GetObjects()) { if ((deviceObject.ObjectType & ObjectDeviceType.Axis) != 0) joystick.GetObjectPropertiesById((int)deviceObject.ObjectType).SetRange(-1000, 1000); } }[/source]

Getting your axis information is a little different, if you do joystickState{dot} intellisense will show you a lot of properties, the ones with X, Y and Z on the end will give you your axis info, so to find out which one your joystick uses you'll have to print them all the console and see.

EDIT:

These two lines:

joystickAxesCount = joystick.Capabilities.AxesCount;
joystickButtonCount = joystick.Capabilities.ButtonCount;

may cause you to hang for a few seconds, so you may want to create your device on a seperate thread so your main game loop won't stall until it responds. You could also cut this out entirely and loop over the entire bool[] buttons array which I think is of size 128.

Edited by Kasc, 03 August 2012 - 08:25 AM.

[6677]

Also http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/ is an emulator for non 360 controllers by putting the files in the main folder, however it doesn't read in Visual Studio 2010's main folder, would i have to be more specific and put it in the main XNA folder?

This isn't really a visual studio issue, the program is for standalone applications that have already been compiled.

http://code.google.c...e/wiki/MainPage

Compile your game then dependant on whether you compiled in debug or release mode go to:
My Documents>Visual Studio 2010> Projects>[project name]>[project name]>bin>[either debug or release]
That is your games folder that you install x360ce in. You may have to manually copy you xinput.dll file which should be in program files on your hard drive somewhere.

I tried that program out, found I had about half a second delay on inputs whereas by actual 360 pad runs fine.


As for the actual 360 gamepads, its well worth buying one. £20 for a wired USB gamepad with the functionality and quality to match gamepads costing far more. Just can't really argue with it.

Edited by 6677, 03 August 2012 - 09:55 AM.