Playstation sixaxis controller

On OSX 10.5.8, I had to install some kind of driver to make it recognized. It was mentioned that it is supposed to work directly with 10.6 but you should do a search with 'sixaxis + 10.58'.

Thanks. I had been too confident that my OS came under "modern versions of OSX have a driver built in".

I have installed the driver from http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Ps3Controller It appears to be working fine, and I get a stream of information from the PS3 controller into Max/MSP.

It's only 8bit values while I believe that the controller has 10 bit resolution. But there is still an awful lot of "controller" here which could do all sorts of ..... "stuffz".

That's it... BTW, I made a patch for a friend who bought a logitech extreme 3D PC joystick, and to me it's much more interesting and precise than the sixaxis...

Thanks. I definitely want to experiment with more controls. The PS3 controls were the second ones I tried after I found the Nintendo Wii control didn't work so well. I'll have another go at that.

Both of these we already have lying around the house as we have those consoles. The logitech 3D joystick looks interesting, but I am planning to get the XBox Kinect controller next.

Hello,

This the how to map the basic data out of the controller. It's mostly just route with a little bit of added trickery to get the x/y joy sticks working properly. The problem I hit is that I cannot get the data for velocities of any of the buttons, or the sinaxis accelerometer.

If you ever do crack it, I would love to see how you did it!

Well, last night the controller was working with Max/MSP.

This morning, its not working at all. I tried your patch, and the patch I made last night, but nothing happened. I bought up the Human Interface tester, and that gave no output from the PS3 controller. I reinstalled the driver and restarted the computer, but that did nothing. I tried a different controller, that does nothing.

So, here I am right back where I started.

Edit: Now it's working again. I think it was some combination of plugging in the control, quitting Max, starting Max up again, or something like that.

Looking at your patch, you only go up to about parameter number 30. There is information coming via higher numbered controllers, e.g. 62 appears to be some sort of tilt sensor. So, you'll need to look at higher numbered parameters. I'm going to create a Java GUI object to track all parameter numbers, so I can see what is what.

PS: I have written the GUI and it's MUCH MUCH easier to see what is going on.

Do you have any questions about keys and values?

which ones show as velocity sensitive? I haven't played games for a long time, but they should all be velocity sensitive right? Other wise how does the play-station know how high the character will jump? At the very least L2 and R2 must be velocity sensitive as they have a sliding action.

I would love to be able to tap into some of the velocity data and also the sinaxis. Any advice on this would be fantastic.

Cracked it! you were so right, the velocity sensitive ranges are further up the route numbers...cheers dude!!