SBCUnity is a simple plugin to use the amazing SteelBattalion Controller within Unity3D. Its based on part of the nice SteelBattalion.NET library written by Joseph Coutcher and the Loom script from UnityGems.
The plugin is developed as part of the #mechgic project, which is a MOBA-like mech game based on the SteelBattalion Controller and Oculus Rift VR.
The plugin is consist of two parts - the server that will grab data from the Steelbattalion controller and the Unity3D client that will receive data from the server.
Its not a native plugin because I want to make it more universal than Unity Pro only.
On OS X, mono runtime is required (assumed /usr/bin/mono, but you can change it in the source code [Unity/SBCController.cs]).
On Windows, please follow the tutorials from SteelBattalion.Net to install the requried drivers.
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Compile the server, a pre compiled binary for Mac OS X and Windows is provided in Server/bin.
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Add the scripts to Unity and also add a SBCController component to one of your gameobject. The SBCController component is a singleton object so make sure you only have one copy of it in your scene.
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Put the binaries under your Assets folder (you can make your own folder) in Unity3D, and change the Server Binary Dir option in the SBCController component to the folder where you put the server binaries. (For example, if the server binaries are put in Assets/SBCController/, then set Server Binary Dir to "SBCController/").
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Use SBCController.instance.RunSBCServer/StopSBCServer to run/stop the SBCServer. When the server is running, it will automatically looking for SBCControllers and grabbing data from it.
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Use SBCController.instance.buttonStates/joystickStates to access the controller states.
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A editor script is also provided for testing.
SBCPacketSetLedState packet = new SBCPacketSetLedState ();
// which LED
packet.ledButton = (int)SBCLed.NightScope;
// 0 - 15
packet.intensity = 15;
SBCController.instance.Send (SBCUtility.Serialize (SBCPacketType.SetLedState, packet));
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When unity crashes, the SBC server may keep running in your system. You have to kill the SBCController process manually using the Windows TaskManager or OS X activily monitor.
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Currenly there are limitations dealing with button state changes. The changed event may not be captured correctly.
SBC Unity. Copyright (C) 2014 Ruiwei Bu.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Part of the source code come from SteelBattalion.Net.
SteelBattalion.NET - A library to access the Steel Battalion XBox controller. Written by Joseph Coutcher.
SteelBattalion.NET is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
SteelBattalion.NET is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with SteelBattalion.NET. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.