Xbox 360 Controller Support (Contribution)

Edit: English manual in the package included April, 5th 2006

This works for the normal Xbox360 controller that you would plug into your system? Or the PC version? Mabye i'm missing something, but if it's for the PC version, can't you already do this using the native 3DGS commands? I've had no problem with the native commands for an assortments of Logitech and Older Microsoft PC controllers. Appreciate the work though, and was wondering, do you have that old networking plugin uploaded anywhere? I started multiplayer and come across some old threads a few weeks back about your plugin. Thanks.

You can only use the wired controller on a pc. The play and charge kit is only for charging the controller, communication will still be wireless. There is no receiver for pc's (yet).

@William: This interface is special. It controls Xbox 360 controllers (and similar controllers in the future), but no other gamepads/joysticks/wheels and so on. A6 recognize the Xbox 360 controllers without problems, but the triggers are diffrent (in A6 the triggers are recognized like a wheel) and you can't set any vibration effects with any other interface. The Xbox 360 controllers are also recognized while runtime, if they are attach/leaved. The disadvantage of the interface is that if you use A6 joystick commands and Xbox interface commands at the same time you get troubles. I'm programming a joystick/gamepad plugin that removes this problem. The Xbox plugin here was a first goody to make you hot for more . At the moment this plugin is funny, if you have one or more Xbox 360 controllers. If you have four of these controllers you'll be able to prog a four-person-splitscreen application with high performance. The first time A6 is smelling like the Xbox 360, not?!

@Sjoerd: Thanks for this info.

Good one ! Thank you (specially for english manual).

Thanks for the explanation DocJoe, but there is one thing I'm unsure about. Is it possible to still use the A6 joystick commands and your plugin to support both older-style joysticks(logitech) and the new xbox360 format in the same game? For example, in the script I would first determine what type of joypad is being used then go from there with all my input sections. Also, I noticed an error when starting your demo - "This application has failed to start because XINPUT9_1_0.dll was not found." I currently don't have an 360 controller installed or pluged in so mabye thats it? The demo loads up after the error.

@Doug: Can you tell me/us more about your new interface? My personal interface will support an infinite count of joysticks/gamepads/wheels with forcefeedback and so on. You can start/stop the plugin within the game and you can choose, if you wanna use the Xbox 360 controllers with DX or with the Xbox interface. You can define a msg handler that recognizes new joysticks or de-/reattached joysticks. Joystick handling is very easy like

if(Button_1(hJoystick1)== on) { Name_of_Joystick(hJoystick, strJoystickName); }

All values are between -1000 and +1000 for axis (not +/-255). You can set null and dead zones. You can load forcefeedback effects from file (Force editor to test effects and to write into a file included) and you can define forceffeedback effect by code.
and so on.... If your new interface is similar fine I stop my project (70% done), I don't wanna waste my time (didn't see anything in the forecast or anywhere else).

@William: Thanks, I'll look into this this evening!

EDIT: The pakage download includes now (Download (5.3 MB)):

The Xbox 360 controller Plugin 'XBox360Cntr.dll'
The prototype file 'Xbox_dll.wdl'
An A6 Xbox 360 controller sample using the new Xbox 360 controller interface
The file 'xinput9_1_0.dll'
A 'readme.txt'
Manual in English
Manual in German
The application 'XBOX360Eng.exe' to install Xbox 360 Controller drivers for Windows
An End-User License Agreement for Microsoft® software for use with Xbox 360 Controller for Windows (ENG_EULA.rtf -
English)
An Xbox 360 Controller for Windows documentation (English).


@William: If you use windows before XP with service pack 1 and/or you didn't installed an Xbox 360 controller you need at least a XINPUT9_1_0.dll driver in your application or your windows system folder. Otherwise you get an error warning if you start the game application. Xbox 360 controller drivers are also available via Windows Update, or at www.windowsgaming.com. Thanks William for this important info.

Hmm, the comp had service pack 2 installed. Is there any way that if this .dll doesn't detect the file it doesn't show an error? It looks like you have to have a 360 controller, either that or download the files, and I don't think people would like that if they don't have a controller.

P.S - I hope this isn't asking too much. This .dll is great already, at least you can test your game now with the 360 controller to make possible future porting easier.

DocJoe: You're using XInput right? Can I ask why?
I know DirectX9 doesn't support a lot of the features of the XBox360 controller, but there are a couple 3rd party dlls that do (and they run on 9x,2K, and XP).

I'm not saying using XInput is wrong, I'm looking forward to using it myself , but I'm wondering if it is too soon...

Yes, I use XInput. Naturally 3rd party tools sound interesting. 14 days ago I really didn't know anything about Xbox 360 controllers and I didn't heard about 3rd party tools. I was studying DInput when I stumble over XInput.
What do you think about the concept of the dlllfunctions. Personally I like it and I like the values I can use (0 - 1000 - personally I hate the wdl joystick values -255 to +255). I think I have to add two functions for the hat: Xbox_hat_horizontal() and Xbox_hat_vertical().

Code:

---

define right, 1; 
define left, -1;
//...
if(Xbox_hat_horizontal(1) == right) { //turn to the right...} 

---

This should make the list of dllfunction complete.

This is beautiful.

I don't have and have never had an xbox controller, but for reasons I needed to get Tower to work witha 360 controller. So i was making builds and sending them to a friend who had the controller and tested it out as we went. By 8 builds we had fixed the entire game and added rumble.

Thanks a lot.

Sry to ask a noobish ?, but is there a tut on how to get your char to move if you move the joystick on the controller and fire on A or such?

Hello,


I was just wondering if this is Capable of working on A5
or is it Strictly an A6 only Plugin?


I don't Have the Controller yet so I can't try it
for the moment.



Thanks,



*** Teutonic Darkness ***

As with all dlls they need to be compiled for the appropiate Acknex engine version. An A5 plugin would need to be compiled with the A5 SDK, so I think you're out of luck on this one ...

Cheers

Ok Thanks for the info..

Hi is their any plug-in's for the xbox remote control or the playstation remote control out thier that work's with 3dgamestudio? if their isn't I think someone should make one. Becuse I don't have xbox 360 or the xbox360 remote control. I have an xbox and the 1st playstation which I have the playstation remote controls and also the xbox remote control.


also I am using windows 98 second edition is it possible to use the driver with windows 98 second edition? I plan on getting a new computer next year and I am going to get windows vista.

I have a problem when I made a huge outdoor level and I ran it in the test mode in the high def option my computer crashed when I moved the plaver during play mode of the level, I guessed the level was too graphic for my computer or took too much ram, but ever since I did that at bootup with my computer booting windows 98 at startup of the os my computer keep's on crashing, after like 10 or 20 times of turning my computer on and off if would work and boot correctly.
would this mean my RAM is bad or I damage my graphic card? Would it be possible to damage your ram or graphic card if it can't handel the game.

Thanks for your time.

Hi I found a xbox remote control driver, but how could I make a script plug-in for 3d gamestudio for use as a joystick? Also I want to know how I would make a script for 3dgamestudio to see a playstation remote control. I am using xbcd for an xbox and a playstation driver for the usb connections of the remote controls. thanks for your times.

so how would i program it for a game made with a6 comm.

did anyone figure out how to implement this? i added it, but my room spins when it loads.

Hi,
Great contribuition

I would like to know if your DDL work with any force feed back joysticky (EG Drive with pedals) or just with the xbox joysticky.

Best regards,

Marcio

Hello,

Can anyone help me? The example (xbox.exe) works. But I am not able to implement DocJoe's Xbox 360 Controller Support in my own code. Can somebody please explain how to do this? I'm completely new to lite-c. Even though I was able to make my first steps in lite-c, I am having problems implementing the Xbox 360 Controller Support. What I want to use is the rumble.

Thank you
haggey

just wondering if this xbox controller plugin is compatible with the a7 version. I'm assuming it would, as a7 should work with backwards compatability, but hey you never know. If anyone could let me know that would be sweet.

i guess a7 has native support for 360 controller but im not sure.

I cant get this to work either in my script....I want to use this for my game

Got it to work in my script VERY easily. Once I learned how the functions worked, it was easily implemented into my script.