Flight Question Playing with a gamepad

[xiron]

Hello, here's my first message on this forum.
I've been following the project since 2007 and still love it
I'd like to reask the question (I found an old one in 2011) but will gamepad control be implemented one day ? Because I loved playing with a joystick but with an xbox controller I think it would allow lots of freedom, especially for in atmosphere flights.

 

[n72.75]

Hello, here's my first message on this forum.
I've been following the project since 2007 and still love it
I'd like to reask the question (I found an old one in 2011) but will gamepad control be implemented one day ? Because I loved playing with a joystick but with an xbox controller I think it would allow lots of freedom, especially for in atmosphere flights.

I don't see why better controller support couldn't be implimented. currently no one is Working on anything like this though.

 

[Gondos]

The priority should be replacing the DirectInput dependency. I tried to make it work with SDL but once you take that route, it quickly gets out of control and you have to replace a lot of things that break backward compatibility.
If we ever go that way, it could look like this (at the begining of the video I configure a cheapo saitek AV8R-03 to flight the XR5).