how to use a joystick with second life

[davidp0]

How would one go about using a joystick or game controller with second Life?  

 

Thanks! :-)

[Rolig Loon]

One would look at the information at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Joystick_Flycam , which is more or less up to date but not necessarily complete.

[Abigail Longmeadow]

Some joysticks work better than others. The old Logitech Attack 3 works well for steering and flying, but the buttons mostly don't work. You will need to experiement with each joystick. These are approximately the settings I use with a Logitech Attack 3:

Plug in the USB joystick.

In the viewer (Firestorm for example): Preferences, Move and View, Movement tab, Joystick Configuration button.

Joystick – Enable Checked – Logitech Attack 3 Joystick
Joystick – 3D  Uncheck
Joystick – Avatar & FlyCam Checked

Joystick X = Sliding sideways is disabled with -1 mapping.
Joystick Y = Helicoptering straight up and down is disabled with -1 mapping.

Joystick Z = Axis 2  moving forward (engine) scale 3.00 when flying, dead zone 0.25 for both flying and avatar.
Joystick Pitch = Axis 1  Scale = 1
Joystick Yaw = Axis 0 Scale = 1

Joystick Roll = -1 disabled.
Joystick Zoom = -1 disabled.

 

[Lindal Kidd]

The "joystick" I use is the Space Navigator 3D "hockey puck" from Connexions, and it works perfectly with no tweaks.

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

If what you have doesn't work very well, that is the controls don't map to Flycam correctly or you want buttons to do stuff that they don't do, then you can get third party software that will do the mapping for you. There are different ones but here is one that is quite easy to use. http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpadder/