Quoting: Sir_Diealot

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: Sir_DiealotNo Xbox 360 controller support?

Doesn't Xbox360 controller support come as standard for most Linux Distros these days?

I bought an Xinput controller and I had to spend hours to configure it with xboxdrv anyway. I don’t know what SC Controller is for, but if it helps with that configuration… great! (I didn’t notice that it was using Gtk3…)

Exactly, xboxdrv is hell to set up. The stock kernel driver (xpad) is simpler, but doesn't work correctly with most games. The modified one by steam (steamos-xpad) seems to work better. And it gets a hell of a lot more complicated with wine games.
Why do gamepads have to be such a pain in the ass?

Thing is, gamepads are pain in the ass because of xbox controller. It's The One that works differently from everything else while being backed up by "Windows company", so games have to support it. SC-Controller support evdev as fallback, so it may work with it, but it is targeted on that category of all other controllers :)

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By the way, @Liam, thanks for all your articles. It's interesting thing to find one's own application in RSS feed :)

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Wow, you really wrote article :D Thanks :)

Quoting: leillo1975Could be configurated to work with wine? Can be used by a Steam Game? I'm thinking that Steam controller don't works well with ETS2 and ATS in Linux, and if this driver can emulate X360 (works great)...

Yes, it works with Wine, I played several games with it. But if game supports only XBox controller, you may need to use x360ce or something similar. Wine emulates only dinput gamepad, no matter what's connected or emulated.

Quoting: CruelAngelHowever... both the on screen keyboard and menu command does not do a thing. When I run scc-osd-menu or scc-osd-keyboard from the command line, it can't find a certain libXfixes.so, however the libxfixes3 package is already installed. I'm on 14.04 right now and installed the sc-controller from the prebuilt deb package.

Yep, this little bug was fixed just yesterday.

Quoting: jordicomaWorks almost perfectly on arch. The only complain, can I change the keyboard layout?

Yes, you can, although there is no GUI for that so far. Keyboard is defined as SVG image, so you can simply copy /usr/share/scc/images/keyboard.svg to ~/.config/scc/ and edit it using Inkscape or something similar. sc-controller will pick up that SVG after restart.

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"I review all suggestions made, and approve or discard them." ... "but for other languages, esp. eastern-european/asian/middle-eastern, I'm reliant on both downvotes & upvotes, and reverse translation"

says guy in that announcement.

I think I'll be able to come with much better ways to waste my time :)

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So, I'm probably going to play devil's advocate on this, but I quickly scanned last 10 pages of discussion and wose thing that mod guy said about Linux is "Sure Linux is good for coding and so on, but for gaming, you want Windows." What's, frankly, truth, at least right now. But he apparently doesn't like Chrome...

And that thread got derailed by m$ trolls on very first page :D

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Dunno, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it looks like page sells only beta access and requires me to accept weird eula-like thing completely in french. Wtf?

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Quoting: ricki42For what this can mean for devs, look at this blog post by Natural Selection developer Unknown Worlds [External Link]: they ended up having to pay charge-back fees and had to leave the keys activated. So not only did they not get paid, they had to pay money for people to play the game.

And yet, Natural Selection 2 still costs 10$, what somehow equals to 10€. I feel zero sympathy for that developer.

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resellers buying from cheap regions like South America and then selling to us in Europe or North America.

Except this is exact reason why key resellers are so popular, especially in Europe. Since introduction of Euro on Steam, EU buyers are expected to pay 20-50% more for exact same value as USA buyers gets. And no, it's not because of tax, Steam was using tax scheme that allowed it to charge 3% VAT all around EU. And most of other shops started to do same thing shortly after...

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[quote=Guest]

Quoting: kozec

Quoting: MGOid

Quoting: GuestThe controller support is working. I just played it with the Xbox 360 controller. The Unity 5 upgrade got some controllers not working but you can play it with a joypad right now.

Xbox 360 controller is not controller, despite its name. Controller is something that communicates using HID standard and many Unity games have problem with those.

This explains a lot. I assume it's because Unity was compatible with the weird external out-of-kernel 360 controller driver, instead of interfacing with the standard input that Xorg and everything else listens to? They really need to utilize the same method the OS uses to communicate with the controllers.

I'm afraid it will not. Or, rather, it is already standardized; Every single controller on this world uses HID, that can be easily queried using SDL. Except MS's one. Now, this may sounds like bashing, but Microsoft really does what it can to get everyone to support XInput and not HID (or DInput on Windows), what, in turn, makes everyone else's gamepads unusable with Windows. No idea what's their purpose...

On Linux, afaik, driver for XBox pad emulates hid/joydev device, so it shouldn't make any difference. But many games are still doing gamepad support wrong, for example by looking for USB device IDs and disabling gamepad support if XBox pad is not there. Or just by hardcoding buttons to XBox pad rather unusual button mapping. I'm not sure if Unity somehow helps to do it right, but it doesn't looks like that from what I saw :(

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Quoting: GuestThe controller support is working. I just played it with the Xbox 360 controller. The Unity 5 upgrade got some controllers not working but you can play it with a joypad right now.

Xbox 360 controller is not controller, despite its name. Controller is something that communicates using HID standard and many Unity games have problem with those.

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Just one thing in video bugged me in video.
Shock jockey does minimal damage on handyman :)
Use Murder of crows. It does almost no damage, but handyman will spend 5-10s slapping crows, standing on one place, with hearth beautifully exposed. I can kill him without getting a single hit on hard using that.

(sorry, I can't comment on youtube, 'cos google+ -_-)

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