how the %$#@ does mode shift work

[afrodude11243]

FYI I just need info on steam's general controller configurator, I'm want to set this up for an Xbox controller as well, I have to ask here because I don't know where the hell else to ask anything about the subject.

I want the L trigger (block button) to alter the facebutton actions when held, e.g. A normally jumps, but when L is held it dodges, B goes from hotkey3 to hotkey7, etc. Googling for 20 minutes hasn't helped much, I know mode shift or action layers can supposedly do this but apparently action layers are maybe perhaps really buggy/laggy and I don't know how they would effect the normal function of the trigger (it needs to maintain block until i press the altered facebutton), so I want to use mode shift, only I cant find ANYTHING on how the hell it actually works.

When I try to set the trigger to modeshift, I get a menu with a list of buttons... and that's literally it. I can choose a single trigger/button in the menu, which does absolutely nothing. The input for the trigger is still the same, there is no option to actually configure other buttons. I don't know what the &*^%&%$& the button I choose in the menu even does. Is it the input I'm modifying? Can I only modify a single input, thus creating a button that literally does nothing but add a step in executing a single function? I doubt it. Also, everytime I try to back out of the menu, it just changes the mode shifting input from "left trigger soft pull" to "left trigger soft pull-> trigger", as if I backed into some other menu I never opened. WTF is going on here and how the hell do I do what I'm trying to do?

[rustoeki]

go to the button pad config page.

on the right hand side of the screen press mode shifting - mode shift button - left trigger

on the left hand side of the screen press style of input - button pad - bind the second inputs you want to the empty button pad that appears.

[DaMu]

Using your example, if you want to change the face buttons, from a standard Xbox Gamepad config, go to your face buttons, go to mode shifting and choose Left Trigger as your mode shift button.

Originally posted by afrodude11243:

When I try to set the trigger to modeshift, I get a menu with a list of buttons... and that's literally it. I can choose a single trigger/button in the menu, which does absolutely nothing. The input for the trigger is still the same, there is no option to actually configure other buttons.

BEFORE YOU BACK OUT, on the left change the style of input from None to Button Pad and map your hotkeys. Check your button assignments, then back out, and you should see the normal face buttons assigned, but if you go back to your mode shift menu through the face buttons, your changed hotkeys are there.

If you want your trigger to still block, you don't need to change anything else. Otherwise, from the main config screen, go to your trigger and simply remove bindings from both Soft and Full presses, and turn Analog to Off. Your modeshift will still work, but after doing this, there's no left trigger binded.

I don't use Modeshift as often anymore ever since Action Layers were released, because in my experience, AL's can open up more possibilities than MS's. Maybe a SC user much more technically familiar with what's really happening can tell the exact difference between the two.