mouvement gamepad

BloodInch · Post by **BloodInch** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:44 am

for our game, we ll want use the gamepadfor mouvement and combat, whats the best solutions ?
For exemple an dualqhock to ps2 compatible ? I desire just applicate one action to a touch of gamepad, and more in advance use the analogic mushroom

Thx for you respond

Nicolas

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:37 am

Several solutions:

Using the input system of SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/index.php) is rather easy and it will run on most platforms. But integrating the lib can be a little work and the license is LGPL.

OIS (Object Oriented Input System) (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wgois) is another solution. Seems to work on Windows, Linux and partly on Mac. It offers force-feedback support and uses the ZLIB license. But I never used it so I can't tell how well it works.

And you can certainly use the input system of a specific platform, like DirectInput on Windows.

Edit: Wait - analogic mushroom??? Uh, I have no idea... is it legal?

BloodInch · Post by **BloodInch** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:49 am

thx for your help

I dont think ist illegal to use the mushroom touch of gamepad ^^

Nicolas

JP · Post by JP » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:18 am

analogic mushroom....

I think you mean analog stick

BloodInch · Post by **BloodInch** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:07 am

yes sorry in french is a mushroom ^^ a stick if you want ^^

Trefall · Post by **Trefall** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:51 am

I give thumbs up for OIS. I've used it to do gamepad controls before and is very easy to set up. There are some examples of using it over at the Ogre3D wiki and forum.

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:33 pm

Never heard it being called "champignon" en français...

BloodInch · Post by **BloodInch** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:57 pm

ben chez moi oui ^^
tu sais la langue de moliere est vaste :p

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:56 pm

Provided that the gamepad is recognized by windows\whatever OS I would reccomend using SDL for input. It's not super easy to set up, but once it is it is really nice to use.
If you ask CuteAlien you may be able to get some parts of sourcefiles\headers that set up the input, and how to poll for events, etc. That's where I got the information from.