XBox 360 controller

[ssisy]

Okay, so in my adventures with Human Interface Devices I came to the conclusion that whoever wrote the XBox 360 controller HID driver for windows is a little bit retarded.

The problem is that both triggers are mapped to the same axis which practically gives you only one trigger.

But I can't find any technical reason why this silliness exists. A HID can report pretty much any number of buttons and values (axes) it wants so there's no constraint there. The 'legacy' windows joystick functions provide six axes plus a dial and a slider. Those with controllers can take a look and see that the thumb sticks are mapped left to X/Y axis and right to X/Y rotation with both triggers on the Z axis. This leaves Z rotation completely unused (also dial and slider).

Why? Why couldn't the two triggers have been split? The ps3 six axis controller happily uses all 8 axes, the old XBox controller with xbdr has separate triggers. It's only the Microsoft driver which doesn't 'work'.







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[Sophist]

why do you have advertisements in your post but it's on topic.

If they're not gone by wednesday evening i'm banning you sideways.

[strike]

not to mention that one axes for both triggers is not true. Ban 'em, Danno.

[tSwitch]

not to mention that one axes for both triggers is not true. Ban 'em, Danno.

It is one Axis, but one trigger is positive, while the other is negative, so there's no 'one trigger' about it.

[strike]

did they update the pc driver? i don't recall it being on one axes.

[ahref]

This is probably for some sort of vehicle game, a reading from the joint axis of both of the triggers could detect which way the thing is meant to turn... I dont know.

[Arrow]

All I know is xpadder reads the triggers just fine when I use it to play a game.

[Sophist]

Doesn't matter, person's ban'd. Probably something someone wrote to prolong its life.