Jamie Brown

Hello, I'm pretty new to max so apologies if this is a stupid question. I'm trying to write a patch to interface a wired xbox 360 controller using the "hi" object. I've been successful so far with the buttons, analogue sticks and triggers (mostly) however the dpad is proving to be tricky.

The HID element is the same for all arrows on the pad (unlike the abxy buttons which obviously have different numbers for each button) however the the value it outputs is different depending on which arrow is pressed (eg pressing the up arrow produces output of 0 while down arrow 18000) and the value produced when an arrow is released to it's resting position is the same for every arrow (4284967295). Therefore I'm able to easily get the arrows to turn on their respective graphical toggles in max however this causes the toggles to latch high instead of returning to off when the arrow on the controller is released. I tried outputting another bang to the toggles when the arrow is released (for value of 4284967295) however it then sends a bang to all toggles whenever any of the arrows are released.

I imagine there is a simple mathematical solution that I'm just not seeing so any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)

Hello, I'm pretty new to max so apologies if this is a stupid question. I'm trying to write a patch to interface a wired xbox 360 controller using the "hi" object. I've been successful so far with the buttons, analogue sticks and triggers (mostly) however the dpad is proving to be tricky. 

The HID element is the same for all arrows on the pad (unlike the abxy buttons which obviously have different numbers for each button) however the the value it outputs is different depending on which arrow is pressed (eg pressing the up arrow produces output of 0 while down arrow 18000) and the value produced when an arrow is released to it's resting position is the same for every arrow (4284967295). Therefore I'm able to easily get the arrows to turn on their respective graphical toggles in max however this causes the toggles to latch high instead of returning to off when the arrow on the controller is released. I tried outputting another bang to the toggles when the arrow is released (for value of 4284967295) however it then sends a bang to all toggles whenever any of the arrows are released. 

I imagine there is a simple mathematical solution that I'm just not seeing so any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)


XBOX 360 DPAD HID PROBLEM