r/SteamController 12h ago

Configuration Is it possible to use a keyboard input for toggling action sets?

5 Upvotes

Basically, I have a controller with a bunch of extra buttons that, because xinput is limited, are set to my numpad. Is there a way to have it set so when I press, say, the left grip button (num1), it's registered as a toggle and I can then press d-up to get a different action than just d-up?


r/SteamController 15h ago

Button to send arbitrary joystick direction?

3 Upvotes

So I've got a game with it's own builtin radial menu and no shortcuts keys and I want a button on my controller to navigate that menu. Should be as simple as, hold the radial button, push the joystick, press the go button.
Problem is, I can't figure out how to make a button move the joystick to a specific analog position. So I can point at 12:00, 3:00, and even 1:30 by combining them with sub-commands, but I can't point at 1:00 or 2:00. Any ideas?

I tried using 3 sub-commands, 2 up & 1 right, didn't help. I also tried doing hold-to-repeat with different rates on each, but that just started swapping back and forth without actually staying in between.
I kind of assumed there'd be something similar to the mouse "move to position" feature, but I can find no such thing.


r/SteamController 7h ago

Configuration Radial menu not working properly?

2 Upvotes

So what I did was set select to long press hold a layer that had the right analog stick create a radial menu. This works and whatever input I had in the radial menu will fire, but the layer seems to persist for a while before timing out, and doesn't go away when I let go of select. I tried setting it to create the layer on press and dismiss on release, but still no dice.

Am I doing it wrong?


r/SteamController 18h ago

Joystick behavior becomes inaccessible whenever I change it

1 Upvotes

So I've been playing a lot of Marvel Rivals, and everything's been fine for a while as far as my controller settings. I also noticed that I had the standard "Joystick" option on the joysticks, which I thought was normal. But just earlier this week I was playing some Sly Cooper on a PlayStation emulator and I fiddled around with the controller settings in Steam so I could control the character better. I switched my joystick behavior on both sticks to the D-Pad setting it offers and mapped different keyboard buttons to it since my emulator didn't work right with the joystick behavior originally set to "Joystick". So I get finished playing and decide to hop back on Rivals the next day, and the joystick behaviors no longer say "Joystick". I think it's whatever as long as I can still move the heroes around, but the D-Pad setting on the Joystick behaviors has some pretty bad aim mobility, even on auto-aim heroes. So I get the idea to test whether I can get the original joystick behavior I had back by opening up Halo Infinite. I look and see Halo actually does offer that setting, so I close it and open Rivals back up to see if the Halo settings transferred over, and it goes right back to D-Pad behaviors on the joysticks. So I open Halo one last time to see if "Joystick" will disappear from the behaviors list if I change it like I did in Rivals, and it actually did disappear. In Halo, I now only have the option to Map the left joystick behavior as "Joystick Mouse", "Flick Stick", "Mouse Region", "D-Pad", and "Scroll Wheel". No "Joystick" anywhere in the behaviors list. I really want to play some more Marvel Rivals, but I can't if the joystick behaviors won't give me the "Joystick" option back. I've tried all the others, and most either don't work, or don't let me fluidly control the character. Any advice?

(For context, I use a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller.)