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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 12:04:35 CDT

Marc,
  VMD has built-in joystick drivers on Windows, but not on any other
platform at present. For other platforms, the best option would be to
use something based on VRPN. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to
add basic support for joysticks and gamepads for MacOS X or Linux, the
hard part is making them (2 degree of freedom devices) work nicely
for navigation in VMD.

  John

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:13:46PM +0200, Marc Baaden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for advice on input devices. I'd be interested to use a gamepad
> as a low-cost device for navigating through a system in VMD. Is this supported
> in any form currently (eg via VRPN?) within VMD?
> The use would be for somebody standing in front of a videoprojection, so
> Spaceballs or other devices that usually sit on a table are not a good
> solution. This also means a wireless pad would be preferred.
>
> In addition (ideally) the pad would work under Mac OSX.
> And in an even better world, forcefeedback would be useable in some form.
>
> So any suggestions are gladly taken.
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc Baaden
>
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