Yes, #NoMansSky does only support one gamepad. Single digit. This gamer doesn’t care. Here have #Headtracking and #HOTAS in #NMS. Vanilla. No mods. Thanks #OpenTrack, #AntiMicroX and #MoltenGamepad ❤️
Mebbe I’ll do a proper recording someday:
Wondering about that button box? Didn’t use it in this demo but you can find plenty more examples on the channel and more details on my blog: https://beko.famkos.net/category/simpit/
How it’s done? NMS does support a gamepad but it also reads/maps all gamepads to a single device. It makes no difference between multiple gamepads!
This leaves me with a very limited amount of possible buttons on the HOTAS after mapping that to one virtual gamepad using MoltenGamepad (I usually split that one up into multiple gamepads for braindead games).
So for additional buttons I used AntiMicroX to map the rest as keyboard presses.
Doing so I noticed that NMS does “look-around” on the right stick and this is where OpenTrack comes into the play. It offers a joystick output (using evdev) and that is also just… a gamepad! Needs some remapping though to get pitch and jaw to the proper axis for NMS. This is done via SDL env (basically what Steam does under the hood but boy their GUI for that sucks): SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="000022e86f70656e747261636b206800,opentrack-to-nms,rightx:a3,righty:a4,platform:Linux,crc:e822,"
And there you have it. NMS with my trusty old X52 Pro and a DIY headtracker for 5 bucks 🤓
PS: I’m aware that the recording quality sucks. This was very spontaneous with a webcam sitting on my chair. I basically just finished my happy dance that this started working properly and decided to smash that recording button. PC was not even in “gamemode”.
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@bekopharm nice work! I always wondered if you can play NMS with HOTAS. For me not even the multiplayer worked on linux.
I’m aware that the recording quality sucks. This was very spontaneous with a webcam sitting on my chair. I basically just finished my happy dance that this started working properly and decided to smash that recording button.
@JSSchlegel Uh… what does it say? “Unsupported Windows version”?I run into this having a _very old_ installation and I had to reconfigure the Wine bottle Steam created and set a more modern Windows version. From here it started working again. NMS ditched older Windows systems at some point and your bottle may have missed that memo xD
@bekopharm yes I think that’s it. Played around with the wine config a little but it didn’t help so far. But thank you, I think I will give it another try soon.
@bekopharm Holy shit! That’s amazing. I definitely want to watch a longer vid 🙂
@reznik I’ll have to prepare that and get the good cam out for this. Could also need some more tweaking on the joystick curves but the proof of concept works fine 🤓 👍
Oh course I made a typo in a hashtag. I really shouldn’t make something like this late at night. It’s #MoltenGamepad of course and not MoldenGamepad 🫠
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@bekopharm btw, does NMS somehow benefit from HOTAS? I remember it to have a very simplified flight model…
@JSSchlegel oh not really. Quite the contrary I’d say. I just _feel_ better with it. And why waste all my glorious buttons? 😜 The mouse steering is so much more sluggish and I can not for my life get any situational awareness with this.Especially not on the current expedition where the starter ship has this weird sail blocking in your screen to a very narrow viewport.