Controller support

[weskingofscots]

hi, im new to the game and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. but i use a ps3 controller on my pc and want to know if i can use it for this game as i hate keyboard and mouse. thanks

Moderator Edit: see https://wiki.minetest.net/Gamepads

[onpon4]

Nope, there's no joystick support for Minetest. What you can do, though, is use a program to convert joystick axes and buttons to mouse and keyboard controls. Joy2Key is a command-line program of that sort that works on GNU/Linux, QJoypad is a graphical one that works on GNU/Linux, and JoyToKey is a popular graphical one for Windows. I'm sure there are others.

Moderator edit: See https://wiki.minetest.net/Gamepads

[tinoesroho]

There is currently an open bounty on this missing feature. The pot for it is currently at $50- bored coders, here's a chance to earn some Steam games!

[hoodedice]

I used to use XPadder with my old fake PS2 controller. It was good.

[leetelate]

qjoypad (google it) - works great - jstest is also helpful in getting the button and axis numbers for the qjoypad layout

[Ragnar]

when i was on Windows i used XPadder, when i got Ubuntu i used Xpadder with Wine, now i dont use anything... i play games with gamepads only if it has support for it...

[Hamguy]

Xpadder is shit, don't take advice from these people.

http://www.motioninjoy.com/download
http://ds3-tool.en.softonic.com/

[philipbenr]

Xpadder is shit, don't take advice from these people.

No need to say that. Some people learn different things better than others.

[TheFlannelOne]

JoyToKey works well. http://joytokey.net/en/

[kaeza]

Xpadder is shit, don't take advice from these people.

Softonic distributes malware (or at least uses bad business practices). Don't link to them, Mkay?

[nolan]

I have never thought of how cool it would be to use a ps3 controller on a computer game like this , wow... it would be pretty neat

[onpon4]

Native support is always better. And splitscreen would be really cool...