350 Controller Support?

[dark_princeof_chaos]

Hi, just bought Quake, and wondered if there's a way to get Xbox 360 controller support for it at all. One topic stated I'd need to make a file for the 'id1/' folder or somesuch, but I cannot seem to find such a thing on my computer. Any help would be most appreciated.

[Millzie_95]

*Bump: I wish I knew how to do this, does anyone know?

[Big Chimpin]

It might be able to work with Xpadder. Never tried it though.

http://www.xpadder.com/

[JLaw]

It wouldn't be easy with the original Quake programs. Something like xpadder will get you partway there, but the camera-look won't feel quite right if you're just mapping joystick axis moves to keypresses.

I took a quick look at the QuakeSpasm engine and it doesn't seem to have 360 controller support. Although funnily enough, the Oculus Rift port of QuakeSpasm does. :-)

Your best bet for non-Oculus controller Quaking may be the DarkPlaces engine. Testing out the most recent version of DarkPlaces, it looks like:

- There's no menu option for turning on controller support (I think), but if you manually set the joy_enable console variable to 1 (instead of 0), you're good to go.

- You can use the normal keybinding menu for controls to map various actions to the buttons or triggers of the controller.

- If you want to invert the Y-axis on your lookaround, you'll need to use the console to manually set the joy_x360_sensitivitypitch variable to 1 (instead of -1).

- There are a bunch of other console variables that start with "joy_" which you can use to tweak the behavior, but it felt good to me without digging further into that stuff.

[zombiecryss]

how do you set that up? joy_enable console variable to 1

[Electric Cupcake]

Playing the granddaddy of all modern FPS with a controller? How perverse.

Anyway, you can map mouse movements to thumbsticks with different controller mapping utilities. I stick to Antimicro and occasionally Glovepie. Never used "xpadder."

Also, nice necro.

[Shallex]

Originally posted by Hugsie Muffinball:

Playing the granddaddy of all modern FPS with a controller? How perverse.

Anyway, you can map mouse movements to thumbsticks with different controller mapping utilities. I stick to Antimicro and occasionally Glovepie. Never used "xpadder."

Also, nice necro.

Quake was released on the Dreamcast