Comments on: Xbox 360 Controller & Maya (2) ROCKETS

By: Kostas

Kostas — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:31:35 +0000

Woot woot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inE8VYX0bZM

By: 3d glasses

3d glasses — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:20:38 +0000

Thank you for the info, this is definately going to help.

By: Fridi

Fridi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:45:03 +0000

Hi, thanks for this idea using the xbox controller.
I managed to connect it with a facial rig so that one can animate parts of the face in real time (acutally animating the whole face in several passes. first head+eyes, then yaw and mouth, then emotions etc…).
Works really well except that the xbox controller seems to only work correctly from time to time:
I start the server, start then maya 2008 32bit, load my scene and map the controls. But no signal from the gamepad arrives…

Has anyone an idea why it works sometimes and sometimes not?

By: Nebs

Nebs — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:53:33 +0000

Sweet! Also I will bug Dave and see if he wants to take a stab at it.

By: prolow

prolow — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:50:56 +0000

well though it’s not ideal I did come up with a solution for 2 controller support if anyone’s interested

By: prolow

prolow — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:14:00 +0000

Thanks so much for the files, it was the real kick-off point for me attempting to prototype my game idea. I’m quit happy with the results but really need get multiplayer implemented to get a worthwhile play test. I’v looked thought the ControlerServer.cpp and it’s just way over my head to figure out how to make it support multiple controllers. I don’t think Dave Moore is responding so is there anyone else you know of who would interested in coding that?

By: Nebs

Nebs — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:40:29 +0000

Will do.

By: Allert

Allert — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:40:31 +0000

Hi ryan, awesome stuff you made there. I managed to rig it onto a prototype car i made, and it really works! thing is, i have no clue as to how you did the node-setup. could you post a little tutorial on how to set this up? Because i really want to learn how this stuff works.

thanks,

Allert

By: xboxgames

xboxgames — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:19:23 +0000

Hey very nice blog!!

By: Nebs

Nebs — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:21:42 +0000

Awesome! Good work! I have a bunch of other experiments I will post someday using this…

By: Kodde

Kodde — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:33:13 +0000

Hey Ryan,

I downloaded the ControllerServer binary file from your blog and toyed around with it in Maya. Really awsome. Here’s one of the things I created with joystick support. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrjtPcMVPlA

Thanks!

By: Nebs

Nebs — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:44:41 +0000

Yeah I don’t think the controller plugin will work on the 64 bit version… Maybe someday I can bug dave into releasing one.

By: Justin Younger

Justin Younger — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:24:13 +0000

Dude this sounds so awesome, I cant seem to pull it off, Im using maya 2009(64-bit) on Vista 64-bit.

By: Nebs

Nebs — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:09:11 +0000

Hmmmm I think it will only work correctly with the xbox 360 controller…

By: pixelrgb

pixelrgb — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:50:26 +0000

Will this work with any (analog) game pad controller?