How do you steer with a controller?

[pillowcase]

Is there something I am missing here? I am using an xbox controller which works fine in all o there games. I have the wheel angle at 500, .100 dead zone and I have steering left and steering right assigned to the left thumbstick.

The tractor and moped for example only turn sometimes. I tend to tap on the left stick instead of hold it, I see the in game wheel of the tractor move but then it starts spazzing out and seems to stop responding to input after a while. I will be going straight and need to turn and if and only if I am lucky when I press left on the left stick, it will turn but only sometimes..if I am unlucky it just keeps going straight like it didn't recognize my input at all.

I tried unplugging and plugging in the xbox one controller, resetting everything to default and rebinding, etc. No clue what is going on.

I have tried for over 4hrs to make things work but it just does not seem to keep the steering controls set properly.

[dunerunner]

Publicado originalmente por pillowcase:

I don't think I need Joy2Key I could probably set steam input controller settings to set left stick to WASD if that is what I wanted to do..but I would prefer to have actual steering with the stick rather than emulate keyboard while using a perfectly working controller.

You likely do not.
Try this.

First:
Make sure your controller is on and connected.
Bring up your Steam Browser.
Go to Steam.
Go to Settings.
Go to Controller.
Enable Steam Input for Xbox Controllers.
All other controller setups disabled.
Install Xbox extended feature support driver ... because why not? (I am not sure this does anything.

Next:
Go to your Library.
Find My Summer Car.
Right click and select Properties.
Select Controller.
Enable Steam Input
(The input list should have your xBox controller ticked Enabled, per-game override.

Select Controller Configurator and observe the default layouts for your controller, edit if necessary.

Finally:
Boot My Summer Car.
Start your save.
Press ESC.
Reset To Defaults. Yes.
Driving Controls.
Assign Steering.
Assign Combined Axis.

Don't map anything else until you can confirm your steering and throttle/brake function appropriately.
Continue down the rabbit hole.
(This is the furthest I can take you. And it assumes your controller is set to defaults and programs are not over mapping each other.)

[pillowcase]

Publicado originalmente por dunerunner:

Publicado originalmente por pillowcase:

I don't think I need Joy2Key I could probably set steam input controller settings to set left stick to WASD if that is what I wanted to do..but I would prefer to have actual steering with the stick rather than emulate keyboard while using a perfectly working controller.

You likely do not.
Try this.

First:
Make sure your controller is on and connected.
Bring up your Steam Browser.
Go to Steam.
Go to Settings.
Go to Controller.
Enable Steam Input for Xbox Controllers.
All other controller setups disabled.
Install Xbox extended feature support driver ... because why not? (I am not sure this does anything.

Next:
Go to your Library.
Find My Summer Car.
Right click and select Properties.
Select Controller.
Enable Steam Input
(The input list should have your xBox controller ticked Enabled, per-game override.

Select Controller Configurator and observe the default layouts for your controller, edit if necessary.

Finally:
Boot My Summer Car.
Start your save.
Press ESC.
Reset To Defaults. Yes.
Driving Controls.
Assign Steering.
Assign Combined Axis.

Don't map anything else until you can confirm your steering and throttle/brake function appropriately.
Continue down the rabbit hole.
(This is the furthest I can take you. And it assumes your controller is set to defaults and programs are not over mapping each other.)

Thanks. I ended up using joy2key after all to set the right thumbstick as mouse to look around while driving.

The weird steering input you see in the video where it jiggles when I would steer left or right was due to having steam input enabled. When I disabled steam input for the game, I was able to steer left and right properly without any odd behavior.

I was only using steam input to make the right stick act as mouse. Somehow enabling steam input seems to have caused double input registration.