What do you need:

• a recent version of spring
• any joystick device: including gamepads, wheels etc.

How to do?
See attached sample widget:

Is it support for only one joystick, or could it be used for implementing an arcade-game in Spring using Lua?

yay

now all we need is an interior cockpit gadget and a tool that locks the players perspective to the units facing on aircraft

Do you supposed this would work with a 3D connexion "space explorer" tool? http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spaceexplorer.php

I've got one lying around at work, would be cool to use it in spring i guess

Wow, looks good!

But...
It doesn't react to any joystick events for me. I've enabled it, but the functions don't seem to be triggered properly. The joystick works in other programs.

Depends on the driver, if it is detected as mouse, gamepad or whatever else.

Infolog should say some stuff about joystick. Please post.

Here's my infolog. I did a quick skim through, but the only thing I could find was information on the fact that it had loaded the widget.

With recent, I mean one of the development versions, its not in the release.

Oh. OK.

tested this, there roll control should be changed to yaw, or at least both should be added. currently the fps camera works rather weird.

also, there absolutely has to be a way of rebinding axes, my gamepad has z-axis inverted.

Sorry for necro.

It's working now, the joy_test.lua script works and registers all the events, but how can I configure this to control units in FPS mode or the camera?

No help?

Bump

Could you list a few devices in which this works for? How about a standard Xbox 360 Controller?

Should work for any joystick or gamepad device.


Integrating it into any of the existing lua camera widgets should be easy. Using it to control engine camera or units isn't (or at least I don't know how).

That you have the drivers for.

Ah, ok.
Thanks anyway :)

Hey,
Ok, i put the lua in etc etc, and on running it in game - it registers my joystick, displaying inputted joystick movement on screen, yet does nothing to the map. It's the joystick of a Logitech G13 btw, if that helps at all

Also i don't know how to write lua for spring at the current time

Edit the infolog file into your post?