Steam Input Essentials - Eps 4: Directional Pad

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6 жыл бұрын

The fourth installment of Steam Input Essentials takes an in-depth look at the Directional Pad Input Style and all of it's settings. I go through each drop down menu, slider, and option explaining what they do and when you should manipulate them. (Steam Controller, Dualshock, Xbox, Switch)
Timestamps
00:10 - What Is the Directional Pad Input Style
01:08 - Choosing a Layout
01:43 - 8-Way Layout
02:23 - 4-Way Layout
03:01 - Analog Emulation Layout
04:10 - Cross Gate Layout
04:57 - Requires Click
05:35 - Gryo Enable Button and Behavior
06:49 - Overlap Region
08:09 - Click Action
08:59 - Deadzone
09:41- Gyro Neutral Pitch
10:15 - Additional Options
10:36 - Outer Ring Binding, Radius, and Invert
11:57 - Analog Emulation Pulse Time and Active %
13:04 - Outro
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@OfficialMondSly 2 жыл бұрын

Tons of useful info here, I was searching for 7:11, personally and it's helped immensely, I thank you!

@hannahalexandra1419 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you! I am still a bit overwhelmed by my Steam controller. But your videos make it all so much easier.

@kakarotwolf Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad this channel exist lol

@LycoLoco 5 жыл бұрын

The presentation of content just keeps getting better and better, but that grip/tilt idea at 6:43? BRILLIANT! Keep up the great work 👍😊

@criticalinput 5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad people are noticing the little quality updates with each video. I've spent up to 30 minutes to make a really cool 30 second effect and knowing that it's appreciated helps to get through the monotony of actually do it! :)

@VaultVulp 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these picture-in-picture moments - they are great! Most of the videos for the SC do not show actual controller in them, and sometimes it's very hard to understand what movement is required to trigger the events.

@criticalinput 5 жыл бұрын

Even in my earliest videos with zero production value I made sure to do the picture-in-picture thing. The SC is a very complex controller and presenting that sort of visual information always seemed important to me, mostly because I was running into the same issues as you were/are.

@STRONTIumMuffin 5 жыл бұрын

great work

@plateddragon 3 жыл бұрын

What about setting up a number pad movement (ie: 8 way using the 1-9 on the right side of the keyboard)?

@alejandrogarcia-sw4ic 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. I have generic gamepad that works great in all games. But when I try to map it on steam big picture or in steam games it just recognice 2 directions (so when set "up" and then "down" it jumps "axis 0" from up spot to down spot. Any solutions?

@denis480 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great videos. I've subscribed to your channel. What if I use a Sega Saturn USB controller? IMO the D-pad is a bit special, and is more like a "circle D-pad". Is "Cross Gate" still the best option?

@criticalinput 5 жыл бұрын

It'll probably show up as a DirectInput to Windows so you'll need to enable Generic Controller support in Steam. On the off-chance that it does show up as an Xbox Controller then enable Xbox support rather than Generic. As for setting up the dpad, I would probably still use Cross Gate since it uses more points of detection than the other 3. But it depends on what you want to do with it. If you are playing a game with zero directional movement, like an old school dungeon crawler, then you would want to use 4-Way (No Overlap). Otherwise, just test both 8-Way (Overlap) and Cross Gate and see which feels better.

@denis480 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for replying! I plan to play Sonic Mania with it (+ other games in the future, like Ori and the blind forest or even Shenmue 1+2, but first objective will be to use it with Sonic Mania). By the way, and just for information, I'm talking about the new Saturn controllers that Retro-Bit has released this month. It actually has two modes, directinput and xinput (so it appears as generic in directinput mode and as a x-box controller in xinput mode). The shoulder buttons seem to be better recognized in the default directinput mode (they are detected as an "axis" in xinput mode, and as regular buttons in directinput mode) so I plan to stick with this one.

@criticalinput 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that info about the controller. I love the US Genesis controller and the Saturn one looks pretty close to it. I'm actually really tempted to get one now, especially since it supports both APIs.

@denis480 5 жыл бұрын

One more information: to switch modes (this isn't written anywhere, only in some reviews), you have to press the Start button during 5 seconds.

@criticalinput 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I originally assumed it would be a physical switch like on the Logitech F710. Thanks for letting me know.

@ignacioherrero9374 11 ай бұрын

hi... its there some kind of tutorial about how remap multiple commands in one action? and updated info about latest releases of Steam input a 2023.

@criticalinput 11 ай бұрын

I haven't been keeping up with channels covering the Deck UI Overhaul and I personally won't be making videos for it, so unfortunately I'm no help with that question. What do you mean "remap multiple commands in one action?" Are you wanting to assign a macro to a single Action? If so, Steam Input was never really great for that.

@ignacioherrero9374 11 ай бұрын

@@criticalinput thx mate best regards from Spain , nice to meet you!!!

@Hodger88 3 ай бұрын

I cannot find overlap region in the new menu, is it even an option anymore?

@criticalinput 3 ай бұрын

I haven't used the new UI even once so unfortunately I don't have an answer for you.

@agustingesell 4 жыл бұрын

My generic gamepad was working perfect at least until yesterday , maybe can help me. Is a gamepad from 2000 whitout analog, but D-PADS are great for fighting games like mk11. Today i dont know why i can´t configure, only 2 buttoms from D-PADS are recognized. Actually layout option is not available

@criticalinput 4 жыл бұрын

If you go into the General Controller Settings and then go to your device and it doesn't have "Define Layout" as a option at the bottom next to "Identify" and "Calibrate" then I'm going to assume that Steam isn't properly seeing the device for some reason. If you installed any controller related software then that might be interfering, I would suggest uninstalling it and restarting the PC and seeing if that fixes it. If you are on the beta branch of Steam it has been receiving almost daily updates and one of those could have messed it up, switch to Stable branch and see if that fixes it. And finally, it could be that the driver somehow became corrupted so try uninstalling/reinstalling the controller's driver.

@agustingesell 4 жыл бұрын

@@criticalinput I can connect normaly the gamepad the problem is when i go to Define Layout i can´t use 2 of the D-Pad buttoms and the option " layout 8 way / 4 way overlap " is not available idk

@agustingesell 4 жыл бұрын

i try reinstall driver, in control panel D-PADS works fine, same as x360c whit other games.

@criticalinput 4 жыл бұрын

@@agustingesell Then it sounds like a Steam issue. Did you try switching update branches?

@agustingesell 4 жыл бұрын

@@criticalinput how i do that?

@Keyumiz 2 жыл бұрын

Any way to get 8 input on dpad like the xpadder program?

@criticalinput 2 жыл бұрын

It's been a long time since I use this program but if you need 8 unique inputs then you can set up a Radial Menu on the DPad and give it 8 bindings. Set it to activate on press and turn the menu opacity to 0.

@Keyumiz 2 жыл бұрын

@@criticalinput You're a genius. I spent hours trying to figure this out. Thx!

@criticalinput 2 жыл бұрын

No probs! Glad I could help. For future help you should check out /r/steamcontroller on Reddit or the Gryo Gaming Discord server. discord.gg/VBdqEV7TtM