Broken 360 controller needs a dead zone

[Vikesrock]

Creating a deadzone should be fairly easy. I would use a select VI. To feed the selector I would run the input through an absolute value then a "greater than" VI. For the True part of the Select VI you would have the unaltered input value and for the False you would feed 0.

I will suggest an alternative however. Depending on the joystick behavior, you may want to trim it instead of make a deadzone. If it has a constant or near constant offset, you can add or subtract the appropriate value before using the input to correct for the drift.

EDIT: Alternative suggestion removed due to Chris' post below.

[Chris is me]

It's generally good practice to add dead zones to Xbox 360 controllers. They don't consistently return to any particular center point.

[DFZXA]

Well yeah I guess it works fine with all my games except fallout 3 for some reason and minecraft on my computer. Those and my program are the only things it leans right on

[WizenedEE]

What I'd do is use the in range and coerce function, and then either return zero or the value with a select. Remember to do it for each axis.

[Wamp]

Originally Posted by DFZXA

Well yeah I guess it works fine with all my games except fallout 3 for some reason and minecraft on my computer. Those and my program are the only things it leans right on

That´s because the videogames are the ones who manage the dead zone, not the console or the PC by themselves.

Videogames like Fallout, Deadly Premonition, etc, didn´t manage the dead zone at all, so if your controller is slightly "broken"... well, s**t happens.

It´s a very common issue with the Xbox360 controller, if you are too rough playing (but there are FEW titles which don´t manage the dead zone, so chances that you never notice your controller is broken are high).

New and well conserved controllers work fine, so if you are not able to manage the dead zone, you can always buy a new one...

[Jared Russell]

I've noticed this on our 360 controllers, and for this reason I will encourage our team to use something like this as an FRC gamepad in the future.

[Wamp]

If drivers weren´t a problem, this would be nice:



So beautiful... It´s for a "mecha (giant robot of massive destruction) simulator" for the Xbox1, Steel Battalion.

And back to the real world... if you dont like the 360´s just try Logitech gamepads, those are fine too.