[MOD] Dualshock 4 buttons

[Phi Zero]

EDIT2:

Removed dead links, see guide from chrnodroid here instead:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1483699248


OPTIONAL: Change the controller config in Steam so X = Confirm and O = cancel, it's defaulted to the other way around.

See here: https://i.imgur.com/E4VygLH.jpg


EDIT:

Updated textures to include Rush Combo buttons.

[Yeloazndevil]

thanks for the button mod, now I can enjoy the game even more.

[s]

your google drive link doesnt work, reupload?

[Godeshen]

Reupload pretty please.

[Kaldaien]

This shouldn't even be necessary. The DualShock 4 buttons are already in the game's UI textures.

I think the only reason this is necessary is because you have the Steam overlay configured to make your DualShock 4 controller behave as a Steam controller and the game is therefore giving you Steam controller icons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see my own mod used, heh... just putting this out there.

[Davoodinator]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

This shouldn't even be necessary. The DualShock 4 buttons are already in the game's UI textures.

I think the only reason this is necessary is because you have the Steam overlay configured to make your DualShock 4 controller behave as a Steam controller and the game is therefore giving you Steam controller icons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see my own mod used, heh... just putting this out there.

you know when developer has failed when people suggest to use a work around than simply use the existing UX to fix the settings .

[Staleen]

can u reupload it? the google drive file doesnt exist

[Mivey]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

This shouldn't even be necessary. The DualShock 4 buttons are already in the game's UI textures.

I think the only reason this is necessary is because you have the Steam overlay configured to make your DualShock 4 controller behave as a Steam controller and the game is therefore giving you Steam controller icons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see my own mod used, heh... just putting this out there.

I have deactivated the Steam Controller API for this game, and nope, it doesn't detect DirectInput controllers, let alone the DS4 on its own. I assume whoever made the port is just checking for xinput, and the DS4 prompts are never used because they didn't think anyone would want to use them. I mean, this game doesn't even use ESC to open or close menus. I don't think this was made by people who use PCs to play games

[Kaldaien]

Also:

1. Don't enclose links in parenthesis without a space before and after, the Steam forums are stupid and won't link correctly
   
2. Even after fixing the parenthesis problem, the Google drive URL does not work

I wanted to verify that the texture was encoded properly, but cannot actually download it :(

This game's kind of unique in that it uses BC7 compressed textures for the UI and has two mipmap levels (4096x4096) and (2048x2048). I don't know what tool settings are necessary to only generate two mipmap LODs, so I imagine you probably have no mipmaps or a complete set of mipmaps all the way down to 1x1. I don't know if full mipmaps will cause problems, but I know that no mipmaps will.

[Radiosity]

I wonder if devs outside of the mere two examples I know of will ever start putting proper PS pad icon support in their games? Probably not, because they think everyone uses the awful Xbox controllers :/ Protip, devs: not everyone does. And with the PS4 pads being PC compatible right out the box, there's no excuse now.

And this game was on PS3! It already HAS those icons, not to mention being on PS4. Grr.

[Phi Zero]

Bah, updated the link. My bad.

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

This shouldn't even be necessary. The DualShock 4 buttons are already in the game's UI textures.

I think the only reason this is necessary is because you have the Steam overlay configured to make your DualShock 4 controller behave as a Steam controller and the game is therefore giving you Steam controller icons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see my own mod used, heh... just putting this out there.

Yeah, I saw the buttons in there already. And I double-checked first by completely removing all configs and disabling the built-in DS4 support on Steam, but nothing would swap over the buttons to DS4, which is why I resorted to this.

[Kaldaien]

Gotcha, that sucks. I thought for sure they would have used the DirectInput or USBHID PID to identify which kind of controller is connected, they went out of their way to differentiate between Xbox and Steam after all.

This must have been a case of the artists having more experience than the programmers :)

[Kaldaien]

By the way, did the PS4 buttons fit with a 1:1 mapping? In other words, did you have to rescale any of the moved buttons?

Since this problem is somewhat common, I'm considering writing a system to move buttons around inside gamepad button maps.

You'd basically define the coordinates of the PlayStation buttons and the coordinates of the XInput buttons and Special K could move those around at load time. But it all gets a lot more complicated if any of the buttons have to be squeezed to fit (often the case for Xbox triggers vs PlayStation L2/R2 icons).

[Phi Zero]

They fit with a 1:1 mapping, mostly. Only the extra set of touchpad and options buttons to replace Back/Start (which are unused ingame?) needed a slight resize.

EDIT: See https://i.imgur.com/HegpR2I.jpg -- the ones highlighted.

[askasys]

Wow! Thanks!

[Nix]

Thanks, i've been waiting for something like this!

I noticed that the prompts on Rush Combo still uses the Xbox buttons though. Other than that it looks great!