human interface devices

Hey guys, I was just curious, is anyone using any off the wall input devices? The consoles are a yes, correct?(PSI/2,xbox,xbox360)? So antenna and a few are messin with midi, right? hows that going? And does anyone have any leads on a handgun type thing, PS1 did it I believe, where you have a lead from yr plastic gun to yr usb port and you point it at the screen to shoot baddies. Anyone got one of those for PC/MAC that works w Unity?

And how well do racing steering wheel/pedal setups go?

AC

 

Well, I programmed full dual-stick analog gamepad support for my game, and if that's any judge of other analog devices... they work great in Unity! Lots of control over just the right feel, and the user can customize the controls nicely too.

 

Sorry for diverting this thread, but I may need to do the same for a project I'm looking at. Any hints/advice?

 

Yes, one tip: for the two sticks, the choices in the Input Manager should be X Axis, Y Axis, 3rd Axis and 4th Axis. In other words, you don't specify a second stick with X and Y.

At least, that made the defaults work with my Logitech RumblePad 2.

It's really very simple--Unity's Input manager handles it for you. You just have to name the axes and refer to those names in your scripts. I also did custom acceleration, but I do that with mouse and key controls too. (One extra I implemented: I chose to "cut off the corners" of the stick input so you can't travel any faster diagonally than orthogonally.)

Don't forget to multiply your stick input * Time.deltaTime. (Not needed with mouse delta input.)

 

Hi,
another question. Maybe related. Does anybody know market data how many Mac and PC gamers own joysticks or game pads? Or does most Mac/PC gamers just use their mouse and keyboard.

Bye,
Martin

 

I have no data but I feel sure that the mousers outnumber the joystick-users (flight sim players) and the gamepad users.

 

Good question, I have been wondering also.

-Jeremy

 

Well, I've got a gamepad. Hope that helps. I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority, but there are enough of them on the market that I'd guess it's worth supporting, if that's what the question is. Unity makes it trivial to do so anyway...in fact, you don't actually have to do anything at all unless you're getting fancy with dual analog sticks.

--Eric

 

My concern was that some game genres highly depend on game pads. For example it is nice to play a FPS game with keyboard and mouse. But it is a real pain to play a Jump Run game with keyboard and mouse. At least I've never played a Jump Run game by keyboard which even came close to the game play of a Super Mario 64 with an analog game pad.

So if the market share of game pads is low in the PC/Mac gamers world that could be a serious problem.

Bye,
Martin

 

That's true. You see the occasional direct port of console games to PCs and Macs, so there's obviously some market for it. (I have a few games that have "gamepad" in the recommended system requirements on the box.)

--Eric

 

Anyone used these at all?

www.eDimensional.com
AC

 

Not I, but those are affordable for sure. I'd be curious to know how well that hat thing works.

Some higher-end ($550) consumer VR gear is discussed here:
http://forum.unity3d.com//viewtopic.php?t=2051