Joysticks/game controllers

[DarqRaven]

Good Evening...

I have a Windows 2000 System with more then enough Memory (1 Gig) and 90 Gig of HD space.
I have been enjoying Tremulous greatly, but have one issue/question.

Windows sees my Logitech Duel Action Control (USB connection) but Tremulous does not.
Since this is an open source game, we should be able to find a way to make this work.
Any ideas??

The ability to use the game controller would greatly help me as I have carpel tunnel and can only play for so long via my Logitech Track ball and keyboard.

Thanks in advance..
DarqRaven

[kevlarman]

i'm afraid that it's not easy to get a controller working well with tremulous. your best bet is to get windows to see it as a mouse (that's the only way to get any analog joysticks to work properly afaik), you'll also need to set in_joystick to 1 to get trem to use a joystick/gamepad for input. after that the only hard part is figuring out which button corresponds to which JOY# for binds.

[FoXx]

ask paradox, he sure knows. he was playing with his wii controller a while ago.

[DarqRaven]

thank you I will look into both answers.

[duck-o-destruction]

i tried to get it  to work, i have a game controller, but it doesn't register the buttons

[mooseberry]

It would be interesting to use. I have an old pc usb controller I used for an old baseball game somewhere. It would be fun to dredge it up and see if I can get it working. 

[Vector_Matt]

Get Xpadder. It works great with my Dual Action USB.

Just have Xpadder bind the gamepad buttons to keyboard buttons, and the mouse.

Also, I think you can have the official logitech software bind the buttons to keys/mouse by telling it to create a new game profile and right clicking on the buttons in the menu. I haven't tried this yet though, so I don't know if it will work. When I get back to my home computer I'll give it a shot and post the results.

[kevlarman]

Get Xpadder. It works great with my Dual Action USB.

Just have Xpadder bind the gamepad buttons to keyboard buttons, and the mouse.

Also, I think you can have the official logitech software bind the buttons to keys/mouse by telling it to create a new game profile and right clicking on the buttons in the menu. I haven't tried this yet though, so I don't know if it will work. When I get back to my home computer I'll give it a shot and post the results.

there's no need to waste keyboard keys just to make your gamepad work, they are named JOY1 through JOY28 for the purpose of binds iirc