Quick joystick/gamepad keymapping question

[Chaos]

Greetings!

I'm a bit new to some of the joystick extensions, and I couldn't find what I needed via searching, so here I am - My game runs on the standard 4 directions (player moved right, up, down, left) and then I use 7 fire keys. $ on player 1, and 3 on players 2's controller.

I have the custom keyboard mapping all taken care of via CtrlX - but I'd like to integrate joypad functionality as well. The joypad works, but then I'd need to rewrite most of my code.

My question, is there an extension that will allow me to map keyboard keys to a joypad, or a single joypad to multiple players? (So that I may access my other 3 fire buttons on player 2's controller, even though player 1 is using them)

Thanks in advance, I hope I was clear enough! >.<

[Tomssuli]

You can use the Joypad object. It comes with z33z extension pack downloadable here under the "Quick File Links".

You might want to put an 'or' in your events. For example if one of your fire keys is enter and you want to make it also work with joypad button 5, you should make an event something like this:

+when pressed enter
+or
+when joypad button 5 is pressed

-player shoot bullet 5 (or whatever fire 5 does)


That should do the trick! ...If I understood your problem right =)

[Chaos]

Ahh thanks for the reply, I figured out a different method a day after I posted this It's complex, but fully customizable now.

[Tomssuli]

Nice =) ...I'm making a fully customizable controls for my game too.

[Patchman]

Any way you can post and example of what you did?