POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Joystick to pov : Re: Joystick to pov Server Time
2 Aug 2024 22:19:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Joystick to pov  
From: scott
Date: 5 Jul 2004 04:21:49
Message: <40e90f9d$1@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Is there any way to make the output of a joystick readable by pov?
> Such as a frequently rewritten text file?  (Yeah, this isn't a
> question about povray technology but general technology.)

If you're using windows you should write something using DirectInput (the
part of DirectX that deals with input devices).  It should be a fairly
trivial modification to one of the sample apps (provided with the SDK from
microsoft) to write the value to a text file every so often.


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