Linking gamepad id to PlayerInputManager player id

Hi there,

I am currently having trouble understanding the best approach to take for implementing gamepad specific rumble for a local multiplayer game.

Basically I am using the new InputSystem 1.0 to handle players joining. When a player joins the player is assigned with their index representing the order they joined and determining which player they are 1 to 4.

I need to implement rumble to trigger when the player executes an action. The problem im facing is that the I cannot use the player index to state which gamepad to trigger rumble. From what ive gathered it seems that Unity assigned a different ID to the actual gamepad devices based on the order they are connected/disconnected therefore I cant say , Player 1 joined first, index 0 , gamepad 0 as the gamepad might have been connected third and be indexed at 2 causing the wrong gamepad to rumble, or the controller may become disconnected causing it to change ID when reconnected etc.

I was just wondering what the best approach to link a player and device would be or if someone could point me in the right direction as I have had no luck so far.

Thanks!

 

SOLVED

Going to keep this up in case anyone stumbles across it and is having the same issue.

InputDevice playerDevice = player_Input.devices[0]; // the only device used for player is controller at index 0
playerGamepad =(Gamepad)InputSystem.GetDeviceById(playerDevice.deviceId); // cast the device as a gamepad using the associated id.


playerGamepad.SetMotorSpeeds(f,f);