Joystick Button Roll Question

de4dly · Post by **de4dly** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:22 pm

Hi all,
I have been searching for a way to accomplish the following, and it would be great if someone could give me some advice or let me know if it is impossible.

Basically, my favourite control method with a joystick is to have the normal axis setup as is default with vegastrike, but to have it so that when a joystick button is held down (usually the top one) you can roll by moving left and right - then when the button is released it goes back to the default axis. When a game has this method I love it.

Is there a way to edit the sdl joystick config to permit this? Or some other way.
I don't have a very configurable joystick - just a basic 2 axis 1 throttle and a few buttons...
Any help appreciated - I will keep searching for a way and if I find it I will post it.
Thanks
D_

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:37 pm

Welcome de4dly all the bindings keyboard and joystick are in the bindings section of vegastrike.config you could map the keyboard roll cmds to joystick buttons or use one as a modifier(shift/ctr/alt) that changes the x-axis to the z-axis but since i have never done it i don't know if it will work

the config file is XML so make those edits with an editor that does syntax highlighting just about any under Linux or Notepad++ under windows.Good luck.

Enjoy the Choice

de4dly · Post by **de4dly** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm

Thanks,
I have tried a few things,
assigning the command Joystick::Mode::RollToggle in vegastrike.config willl cause the button to togggle the axis but as for a way for it to be modified while the button is held down and then to revert when the button is released I do not know.

Thanks for the quick reply!
I will keep working on it.
D_

de4dly · Post by **de4dly** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:32 pm

Ok, figured it!!!

The command is Joystick::Mode:Roll, which calls FlyByKeyboard::JoyRollPulsorKey in flykeyboard.cpp, which has case UP and case DOWN events.

so:

<bind joystick="0" button="1" modifier="none" command="Joystick::Mode::Roll" />

Cool. Just what I wanted. It would be good if there was a commented example of this in vegastrike.config to save other people going through the source... Or unless I missed something simple.

Anyway. Yeehaaa!

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:19 am

Glad you got it the way you wanted

Enjoy the Choice

de4dly · Post by **de4dly** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:25 am

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Also thanks to everyone working on the game. Great stuff!
D4_

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