Set trigger to act as a one direction joystick move

[Rhosta]

Is there a way to set trigger as a joystick? I want it to act as a joystick going to the right when I press the right trigger and I want it to be analog input, just like joystick is.

[cammelspit]

Nope, sadly this is not a thing yet. REALLY need arbitrary axis mapping.

[Rhosta]

Wondering if any other controller is capable of that. Does not look like Xbox Elite can be setup like that.

[cammelspit]

You CAN with other controllers but you are required to use third-party utilities and you pretty much always lose analog inputs nowadays(Xpadder, Joy2Key, etc.). I used to be able to use one back in the day but that software hasn't been developed since Windows XP was new and I have never really found any good universal replacement for modern operating systems. I Know DS4tool allows for axis remapping but that only works with the DS4 and then you can't use it with the Steam configurator, which is still amazing despite the lack of this feature.

I do know that you can make your own Xinput.dll that remaps axes and put it in the game directory. Since Steam uses a direct to the game Xinput system, it should work. I did it one time with a DLL that was provided by someone else to allow for proper Xinput axis mapping for Blood Rayne, though at the time the SC was having a hard time hooking with the DLL in place.

Er, so I guess the answer is maybe?

[Boreout [Aut]]

It kind of works.
Set righttrigger softpullaction or fullpullaction to Leftjoystick rightmovement.
The Leftstick can be selected itself including all 4 deflections (left,right,up,down) indicated by the tiny arrow, it is hard to select if you use a mouse but if you move slowly with the gamepad over LS the delections will show up.

But sadly it is not analog as softpullaction and rightpullaction are digital in nature.
Pressing righttrigger no matter how far would mean you would move 100% maximum speed to the selected direction without any values inbetween.

[cammelspit]

And therein lies the problem. It "works" but it is simply not what I would call a tenable solution to the problem. Axis remapping should be relatively simple compared to some of the other stuff they have done, so for the life of me, I can't understand why it hasn't happened already. This and of course the whole Xinput being limited to 5 axes while the SC has 11 axes at a minimum. Proper Dinput supports would hugely benefit everyone but that is substantially more complicated than simple remapping.

Well, I mean we finally have a vast majority of the features we wanted or needed back when this controller came out so who knows? Maybe Valve is just taking their time and one day we will get these features.

Well, you know what they say, patience is a virtue I guess.

[spitfire_ch]

I agree, axis remapping would be great. It's about one of the first things I tried to do when creating my first profile. Is there any place where we can place suggestions?

[cammelspit]

Originally posted by spitfire_ch:

I agree, axis remapping would be great. It's about one of the first things I tried to do when creating my first profile. Is there any place where we can place suggestions?

Yes and no... You can email steamhardwarefeedback (AT) valvesoftware (DOT) com but I cannot guarantee they even look at that anymore. They do look at these forums but it's still pretty rare they respond in any meaningful way. I will say, trust they know we want it. This was one of the first features we asked for back in 2015 and we were very assertive with it, they just don't seem to care at this point. Valve time i guess... 😕

[spitfire_ch]

Ok, thanks for the info. We can't do more than sharing our ideas with them, and you already did. Let's hope for the best, then. At least they are still releasing updates for the controller.