[FSW]

Hello! FS2 Open, as of v3.7.0, does not appear to recognise diagonal hat inputs.

I discovered this when attempting to map lateral and vertical thrust to the joystick hat. A diagonal input is not recognised on the control mapping screen. In-game, a diagonal input has no effect (ie, it does not count as two directional inputs at once).

I am using a workaround using GlovePIE, but would it be possible for FS2 Open to accept eight-directional hat inputs?

Edit: ancient thread excavated: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67703

[MatthTheGeek]

May I suggest you try with this build, since this is what we're moving towards ?

[headdie]

yep, The_E announced Antipodes 9 which is looking to overhaul the player input system to use SDL 2 across all OS platform builds which should make requests like this much easier, so check it out, but for the time being I foresee input requests being put on hold while Antipodes 9 goes through the dev cycle and we see what will be in from the off and what will need to be added later once it's stable and gameplay neutral

[m!m]

SDL2 supports 8-way hats so when Antipodes makes it into trunk we have the possibility to add support but that will require more changes.

[chief1983]

Yeah, 8-way HATs, and perhaps even more awesome, multiple input device support will be possible as well.

[z64555]

SDL2 supports 8-way hats so when Antipodes makes it into trunk we have the possibility to add support but that will require more changes.

Namely in making a new set of enumerations to handle the 8-position hat in the controls config code, the supporting functions to map them, and maybe also update the pilot file to read/save the mapping.