Honestly, this is exactly what you were looking for. You were looking
at your $1500 copy of Maya, and thinking: why can't I control this
with my $20 USB Xenon controller? Wonder no more: ControllerServer is here!
This is a little one-off that I did for Steve the other day that's kinda
fun. It allows you to connect your 360 controller to Maya as a Motion
Capture device. The inspiration for this was Joystick
Server, by Jorge Luis Imperial-Sosa. Sadly, Steve wasn't able to
contact the author, and there were some limitations in the program
that couldn't be worked around without the source (e.g., Joystick
Server doesn't expose buttons or analog triggers), so I banged this
out for him, and cleaned it up for release.
Pushed into the public domain, for the 2 other crazy people that want
to prototype game controls in Maya. Should be easy to modify to use
general purpose DirectInput devices, or multiple controller inputs.
Just think, with 2 controllers, you could use Maya to play the world's
most overpriced game of Pong!
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