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Game pads

by Nathan · in General Discussion · 02/14/2006 (8:18 am) · 6 replies

Hi I need some help with my xbox gamepad. How can I map buttons on the controller to do other things? Like how would I make button A make the player jump?
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
02/14/2006 (9:00 am)
Most of the posts about getting the XBox 360 controller to work on TGE are hidden in the private forums and on TDN.

Basically, you have to initialize gamepad support and then add the actionmaps for the controller. Then you have to tweak to make it work "right" for the game. These tweaks are often source specific.

Torque Owner Nathan
#2
02/14/2006 (9:45 am)
Well... I'm actually using a regular xbox controller. I have the controller working now but I don't know what the buttons are called. Like "movemap.bind(joystick0, "ButtonA",jump);" doesn't work.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
02/14/2006 (1:09 pm)
Try btn_a.

Here's a post from an XBox Linux site which has the button names.

Torque Owner Nathan
#4
02/14/2006 (4:03 pm)
Btn_a doesn't seem to work either.

Torque Owner Nathan
#5
02/14/2006 (4:43 pm)
Button10 is the left trigger on the xbox controller but I can't figure out any of the other buttons?!

Torque Owner Nathan
#6
02/14/2006 (5:21 pm)
Does anybody know what the buttons are called?