Steam controller support?

Hi,

I cannot seem to find a guide fore this, or if it even needed, how can I make sure my Unity game will support steam controllers, or other controller types?
Thanks, for any info or advice given.

 

Unity's Input Manager is pretty robust when it comes to handling input from controllers of any kind, actually. It even lets you separate the individual horizontal and vertical axis to get really crazy if you want. Take a look at the manual for that and see if that helps you out as far as general controller support goes.

As for the Steam Controller, there's nothing special you need to do to make it compatible (other than have the game launch from Steam). There are certain parts of the Steam Controller, like the touch-pad GUI, that require the Steam Overlay to be active and drawing on top of your game. The controller uses the overlay to display the touch-pad options.

I've actually just integrated my own kind of support system for the Steam Controller in my game, so I've actually had some experience with this. If you're looking to do anything specific, just let me know.

 

Oh ok, many thanks for the info, much appreciated. I use e.g Input.GetKey(Keycode.Y) currently so I suppose this is not good practice, I just realised this.. should I set the Axis's / Inputs in the the manager then use those instead? Can extra Inputs be mapped to controller buttons?

 

Adding Steam Controller support is something that happens outside of Unity.
What you do is create a game that supports KBM or a standard controller (ideally both) and create a preset for the Steam Controller from within Steam's Big Picture mode.
The SC isn't a regular controller. When you plug it in, it acts as keyboard, mouse and generic controller at once and has to be configured with a proper preset.

So rather than adding SC support to your game, you add support for your game to the SC. It's the other way around.

 

A controller configuration or implementation in a game is pretty much universal. You could perhaps give the player an option to customize which keys do what though, for flexibility.

 

Is there a way to disable native Steam Controllers support? I already have them integrated my way.