Alternative joy stick mode

[hodasemi]

Hi,

it would be nice to an alternative joy stick mode. The current one tracks the velocity and converts it to the right joy stick. My use case is Automobilista 2 where the right joy sticks absolute position is the head rotation inside the car. It would be awesome to look around inside the car, like a light version of VR in this game. Maybe (and hopefully) it is not the only use case for this feature.

[wheaney]

You're not the first person to request this and it should be pretty easy to implement. I'll work to get it into an upcoming release.

[hodasemi]

Next week I'll probably have some spare time. I'll try to create a pull request, if that helps. As far as I understand I see 3 things to implement:

• Add a config option for joystick mode
• Add a case check in the output function
• Calibration for the center point. I would probably reuse the part from the stationary mode.

Adding it to the decky ui plugin would be another thing, but on that front I have like zero experience.

[hodasemi]

I did have way less time than anticipated, but there were a few things that didn't go well:

• The module xrealInterfaceLibrary seems to be private or at least not accessible for me
• I tried to work around it by changing the build files and commenting code. I got it to compile, but then it segfaulted right at the start.

I may look into it, when time is available.