OVRPlayerController with a generic joystick

I'm having a similar problem. Using an xbox 360 wireless game pad, the inputs are detected fine, and used to work fine with the unity prefabs and the tuscany demo. I haven't tried it since a few revisions of the lib ago. But now it doesn't do anything. The inputs work fine when I address them myself... is the OVR gamepad controller broken in 0.2.5c? I suspect this is the same issues so posting in this thread.

Solved it, all I needed to do was add this:

// Joystick
		if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > 0)    moveForward = true;
		if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < 0)  moveLeft 	  = true;
		if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") < 0)  moveBack 	  = true; 
		if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > 0) moveRight   = true;

in the OVRPlayerController.cs script, that's attached to the OVRPlayerController prefab, below this (line 218):

// WASD
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) moveForward = true;
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) moveLeft	 = true;
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)) moveBack 	 = true; 
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) moveRight 	 = true; 
	// Arrow keys
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow))    moveForward = true;
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))  moveLeft 	  = true;
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.DownArrow))  moveBack 	  = true; 
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow)) moveRight   = true;

After that it started moving inverted, but then i just changed the <> signs in the code to fix it. Also it started moving by itself, always returning 1 in the Input.GetAxis, i solved that by changing the Joy Num from "Get motion from all joysticks" to the specific joystick I wanted to use in the input settings->vertical/horizontal.

I tried out your solution, but could not get it to run correctly.

My Xbox 360 wireless was sadly not recognised. I pasted in your solution into line 218, with the first paragraph underneath it. Sadly it would still not run.

Was there something I was meant to delete?

I have it laid up like this:

// * * * * * * * * * * *
		// Keyboard input
			
		// Move
			
		// WASD
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) moveForward = true;
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) moveLeft = true;
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)) moveBack = true; 
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) moveRight = true; 
   
   		// Arrow keys
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow)) moveForward = true;
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow)) moveLeft = true;
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.DownArrow)) moveBack = true; 
   		if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow)) moveRight = true;
			
		// Joystick
      	if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > 0) moveForward = true;
      	if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < 0) moveLeft = true;
      	if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") < 0) moveBack = true; 
      	if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > 0) moveRight = true;
			
		if ( (moveForward && moveLeft) || (moveForward && moveRight) ||
			 (moveBack && moveLeft)    || (moveBack && moveRight) )
			MoveScale = 0.70710678f;
			
		// No positional movement if we are in the air
		if (!Controller.isGrounded)	
			MoveScale = 0.0f;
			
		MoveScale *= DeltaTime;

Great script.

I can now use my GamePad

However when using the script the player drifts to the left all the time, no matter what I do.

cool, I've been meaning to look into directinput support, and it looks very straight forward.

"virtualsweden" wrote:
... when using the script the player drifts to the left all the time, no matter what I do.

you probably want to setup some kind of deadzone, which I guess could be done by changing those 0 values to higher/lower ones on the getaxis lines.

Hey guys,

I wanted to integrate joystick control but using joystick up/down to move forxward/backward and joystick left/right to replace the mouse look (horizontal).
Any idea how to do that ? SHould it be in the OvrPlayerController script or in the input settings ?

Thanks !

It;s all in that script, yes. Just look at the keyboard input or xinput gamepad input and / or the mouse rotational input and adapt it to a gamepad.

Should this code not be in the OVRGamePadController instead ? I think this bit of code is to interface with gamepad and joysticks no?

I don't know, the more I think about it, the more I like people all using the same joystick and not having to make people mess with configurations and having a standard layout so you can say "press A to start", etc. It's probably no fun trying to configure a gamepad with the Rift on. I'll probably add gamepad support but make it really general and try to avoid configurations if possible. I can deffinetly understand why Oculus might want to promote xinput, I never really liked the idea of using it and have a bunch of non-xinput controllers, but I'm glad I got an xbox controller and added support for that in my Rift experience.