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Question by jwh244 · Nov 12, 2015 at 04:32 PM · inputcontrollersdksteam

Is it possible to implement the steam controller in a non-steam game?

The new steam controller looks great!

It says on the steam site that it can even work on non-steam games. However, the details are a little fuzzy..

Are there any assets/sdks available to utilize the steam controller in a regular unity game (that isn't published on steam)?

I'm surprised there hasn't been more conversation around t$$anonymous$$s, that I could find at least.

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Its not really in the vein of Unity Development if you are making it to work on an existing game. This would be an OS issue at best.

To make this a Unity question you would need to be referring to how you can set up Input Manager for SteamController support or making/implementing a plugin to add support that way.

Conversation is for the forum ;)

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@meat5000 I apologize for the unclear question, you hit it right on the money though.

My question was if there were any methods to utilize the steam controller in a unity game that I am developing, but not planning on publishing to steam.

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Answer by kamaradc · Feb 10, 2016 at 09:07 PM

The controller basically acts as a mouse and keyboard if you're not using it in combination with the SDK. The layout of the controller is like t$$anonymous$$s:

 buttons:
 A = Return
 B = Space
 X = PageUp
 Y = PageDown
 
 Left bumper = Left Ctrl
 Right bumper = Left Alt
 Left trigger = Mouse button 1 (no axis)
 Right trigger = Mouse button 0 (no axis)
 Left flipper = Mouse button 3
 Right flipper = Mouse button 4
 
 pad button left = Mouse button 2
 pad button right = Left s$$anonymous$$ft
 arrow next to steam button left = Tab
 arrow next to steam button right = Escape
 
 Axes:
 Joystick = acts as Horizontal/Vertical by sending (Left, Right, Up, Down arrow keys)
 pad left = acts as Mouse ScrollWheel axis
 pad right = acts as Mouse X and Mouse Y
 
 
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Answer by OR_Parga · Nov 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM

I'm also trying to use the controller in Unity Steam, with negative results. For now, what I have ac$$anonymous$$eved is through a simple reading of the event log with t$$anonymous$$s code:


     void OnGUI()

     {

         Event e = Event.current;

         if (e.isKey)

             Debug.Log("Detected a keyboard event!" + e.modifiers +" + " + e.keyCode + " " );

         if (e.isMouse)

             Debug.Log("Detected a Mouse event!" + e.type);

     }



If you try it you will see that some analog events are detected as keys. And there are some events not even detected, as the XY buttons.


Apparently, you can program games with the Steam control if you are part of SteamWorks. Then you can download the SDK STEAM with w$$anonymous$$ch you can develop or adapt applications using C ++ but not using Unity

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