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Quick Question for Ben Garney

by David Dougher · in Torque Game Engine · 09/17/2004 (7:23 am) · 4 replies

I was curious. I noticed that you recently added some gamepad support to the torque engine patching it to the joystick code. Did you consider working with this resource which adds gamepad, drivingwheel and flightstick yoke? If so, why didn't you use it?

http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=4324
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    Associate Paul Dana
    #1
    09/19/2004 (9:14 am)
    David I'm just guessing but maybe the reason is this quoted bit from that resource: "Uses DirectInput so only works with Windows (sorry)."

    Perhaps they don't want to release any solution that is not for all targetted platforms?

    Torque Owner David Dougher
    Pariah Games
    #2
    09/19/2004 (10:12 am)
    Thought of that, but Ben's changes only applied to Windows as well.

    Torque Owner Thijs Sloesen
    Scattered Studio
    #3
    09/19/2004 (10:31 am)
    Hmm, I wonder if there would be any interest in an expansion pack that added cross-platform joystick support to Torque. One of the developers on my team has quite some nice stuff running in our custom 3d engine. We might be able to port it over to Torque...

    Torque Owner Ben Woodhead
    #4
    09/19/2004 (11:41 am)
    Hey, Sounds like a very cool idea to me. Input is always a pain, if someone already has a library to handle cross platform joystick stuff then I think you should definately think about submiting it.

    Ben