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smilesprower

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Need help/advice on analog stick on joysticks
« on: September 25, 2015, 02:46:15 pm »
First time trying to add joystick support and having a few problems.

#1 Analog sticks don't reset back to 0,0.
#2 How do you get angles from -100 to 100.

Any advice how one would go about setting deadzones etc would be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

G.

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Re: Need help/advice on analog stick on joysticks
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2015, 03:06:20 pm »
Use the atan2 math function to get an angle from the stick position.

Compute the distance from 0, 0 to stick position. If it's less than whatever you want your deadzone to be then ignore it.
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#1 Analog sticks don't reset back to 0,0.
Maybe the problem is in your code, but we don't know.
If you mean they don't reset to 0 but to some very small value then that's not abnormal.

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Re: Need help/advice on analog stick on joysticks
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2015, 03:36:32 pm »
Thank you, very helpful.

Also is there any fix for xbox360 controller trigger axis ?
There both set for the same axis, both pressed  0, one pressed -100, other pressed +100, none pressed 0.

Can these be seperated ?

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Re: Need help/advice on analog stick on joysticks
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2015, 04:07:31 pm »
Sadly, no. :( Or at least not if you use only SFML. I think some people developed different input libraries using XInput but I don't know how they interface with SFML.

 

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