How to support Xbox360 controllers properly on mac?

[steinbitglis]

Here’s where I’m at:

• On OS X, people use different versions of different custom drivers for the Xbox360/Xbone controllers.
• Some of those drivers claim to use the XInput API.
• Some other games work with some of those drivers, even though Unity doesn’t.
  I assume that this is because those games have some XInput support, which Unity doesn’t.
  How’s that possible on a mac?

I found a c++/c# wrapper for XInput, but it relies on “xinput.h” and “windows.h” (not trivial to work around). Would that even work on OS X?

[TonyLi]

@steinbitglis_1

Here’s where I’m at:

• On OS X, people use different versions of different custom drivers for the Xbox360/Xbone controllers.
• Some of those drivers claim to use the XInput API.
• Some other games work with some of those drivers, even though Unity doesn’t.
  I assume that this is because those games have some XInput support, which Unity doesn’t.
  How’s that possible on a mac?

I found a c++/c# wrapper for XInput, but it relies on “xinput.h” and “windows.h” (not trivial to work around). Would that even work on OS X?

I’ve recently started using Rewired, and it’s great. Here’s what one user said:

Really glad I came across this plugin, best solution ever for input handling and really flexible on the things it can do.

Fixed all the problems I was having dealing direct with XInput and out of the box support for other platforms and controllers. The only reason I can say with confidence now that my game now supports Mac. =]

Looks like you can even download a free trial.

[steinbitglis]

I need to know how it works. This version doesn’t contain source code.