Gamepad help please

Robotpencil · August 14, 2017, 8:49pm

Yea I’ll test this! I’m sure it will work too looks like it.

So perhaps we should make this remark to the Playcanvas folk on fixing it. Because that seems like a lot of extra code to make an already functional code for other keys.

I have a workaround actually for this, but was curious to why it was so difficult to implement. Thanks

will · August 14, 2017, 9:29pm

Guys, if you think you’ve found a bug in the engine, feel free to log here. Thanks!

Robotpencil · August 18, 2017, 7:43pm

Have done it

Robotpencil · November 16, 2018, 1:52am

BACK AGAIN! Thought I reignite this thread

So it seems that just basic functionality for gamepads that I use to use for older versions of PlayCanvas don’t work any more. Or maybe I’m missing something

if(this.app.gamepads.isPressed(pc.PAD_1 , pc.PAD_UP)){
        console.log('pressed up');
}

I get an error that takes me to ‘isPressed’ and says it’s null :S not sure what’s going on but thought I’d let you all know. Would be great to get this to work for my game project!

Also is there a way to let playcanvas know if there are gamepads at all?

yaustar · November 16, 2018, 12:28pm

Do you see the gamepad in this tester? http://html5gamepad.com/

vaios · November 16, 2018, 11:07pm

Hey - you need to enable Gamepads under the Input Settings:

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Robotpencil · November 17, 2018, 12:37am

Oh what!!! Is that new?

I was about to do it via straight Javascript lol. Thanks!

WilliamBoersma31 · January 1, 2021, 3:58am

how do you code down and left on the sticks

WilliamBoersma31 · January 1, 2021, 4:07am

@Leonidas

yaustar · January 2, 2021, 11:10am

@WilliamBoersma31

Quick example:

var Main = pc.createScript('main');

// initialize code called once per entity
Main.prototype.initialize = function() {
    this.app.gamepads.deadZone = 0.1;
};

// update code called every frame
Main.prototype.update = function(dt) {
    var gamepads = this.app.gamepads;
    var x = gamepads.getAxis(pc.PAD_1, pc.PAD_L_STICK_X);
    var y = gamepads.getAxis(pc.PAD_1, pc.PAD_L_STICK_Y);
    if (x !== false && y !== false) {
        console.log("x: " + x.toPrecision(3) + " | y: " + y.toPrecision(3));
    }
};

Some more examples:
http://playcanvas.github.io/#input/gamepad.html

You can find a bunch of constants for the pad here: https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/api/pc.html#PAD_1