Hey Lee,
That was actually alot more helpful than what I have been able to find over my past days of searching! Thank you very much. I may actually be able to move forward with my ambitious school project now
Now all I have to figure out is how to find what angle that the Thumbstick
is pointing so that I can rotate my player sprite according to which way that
the player is moving. I talked to my math teacher about it, and she agreed that
I should try using the Inverse of Sin to find the angle. Hopefully that works,
because if it doesn’t; I'll be back at square one again.
... But if anyone has had any experience with getting the angle for a
rotation based off of a Joystick Thumbstick, or Mouse Position, it would be
awesome if you could share how you found it out so I could use it as a
reference.
From: Lee Buckingham
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [pygame] [Pygame] Joystick Inputs
Hi
Andrew,
For buttons I use this:
if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONDOWN:
if event.button == "whatever...":
etc....
if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONUP:
and so on...
For analog control and d-pads you have to check for axis position each time through the game loop. I do it all at once before the player objects update themselves
Like this:
horizontal_axis = self.joysticks[player_number].get_axis(0)
vertical_axis = self.joysticks[player_number].get_axis(1)
Then change the x and y speed for the player with "player_number" to whatever the axis positions are (times a constant, if necessary). Of course, the player_number has to correspond to the joystick collection indices pretty well for this to work. You can eliminate that part of it by replacing "player_number" with "0" and just make sure to check that the joystick count is >0 before you call .get_axis
Hope this helps a little!
-Lee-
For buttons I use this:
if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONDOWN:
if event.button == "whatever...":
etc....
if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONUP:
and so on...
For analog control and d-pads you have to check for axis position each time through the game loop. I do it all at once before the player objects update themselves
Like this:
horizontal_axis = self.joysticks[player_number].get_axis(0)
vertical_axis = self.joysticks[player_number].get_axis(1)
Then change the x and y speed for the player with "player_number" to whatever the axis positions are (times a constant, if necessary). Of course, the player_number has to correspond to the joystick collection indices pretty well for this to work. You can eliminate that part of it by replacing "player_number" with "0" and just make sure to check that the joystick count is >0 before you call .get_axis
Hope this helps a little!
-Lee-
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Andrew Godfroy <killerrin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Alright, I just checked over my question and I noticed I wasn’t exactly clear what I was looking for...
What I am asking is how do I work the event handler for checking joystick commands such as if the Left Thumbstick-[0] or [1]- moves, or if the A button-[0]- is pressedDoes anyone know how that works?