I’m in the progress of working on a game and I was about to begin working on gamepad support today. However, with the introduction of this beta, my plans have slightly changed. It works extremely well right out of the box, but there’s one main issue that I noticed. The issue is that the virtual cursor still slows down for gui objects that are children of ScreenGuis that are not enabled. You can see this happen after I close the daily reward gui in the gif below:
Other than this, once it supports scrolling and click dragging, I think that this feature is something that I would use for all of my new projects. Like some people have said, it would be nice to be able to modify the appearance of the cursor so it could fit in with the theme of a game (the same could be said about the gamepad cursor that is displayed when the virtual cursor is not enabled). That being said, I’m really excited for when this is no longer a beta feature.
I made a system like this a while back, and I think we should be able to customize the icon, just like my system. It would allow the cursor fit in perfectly. I’m very excited to see this being officially supported!
-- Only use this if you do not want virtual cursor in your game!
local guiService = game:GetService("GuiService")
guiService.AutoSelectGuiEnabled = false
I just want to give a big THANK YOU for not making this feature mandatory.
I have a number of games that work ideally using the existing control method, and I didn’t want to have to reprogram them.
Wait a second … I just tested it in a game. This doesn’t actually give the original functionality back. It disables the new cursor thing, but is also disables the automatic gui selection when pressing the “view” button. There really should be a separate flag like guiService.UseGamepadVirtualCursor = false instead. AutoSelectGuiEnabled already has a meaningful purpose - please don’t tie it to something else.
Ok Roblox, please don’t force me to have to reprogram all of my games. PLEASE
Now THIS is very interesting. It Could be used for all devices, am I correct? This is definitely a step up for people like console players! Excellent job, Roblox!
I’d like the ability to change the little blue box that appears when you hover over something. Even just the ability to change the colors, or be able to disable it would be nice. Aside from that, this is a very good update and I’m sure the Xbox community will be ecstatic! You’re doing well in 2021 so far guys!
Happy days!
-coburm
Edit: When I say disable I mean disable as in removing the blue box as an option somewhere.
I gave this beta feature a test ride in our games - we have built multiple games that are Xbox Featured and therefore have manual implementation for a good Xbox experience. In my tests I did not notice any regressions, so this seems like it will be a great change.
Unable to scroll up or down in scrolling frames (we are considering the use of the d-pad for this, when a scrolling frame is highlighted)
My advice would be to use the right thumbstick as you currently do in the “old system”.
This is a great feature. Being a new Dev i was a little bit worried about implementing game pad controls myself, but this is definitely better. I can focus on game mechanics and other features.
THANK YOU! It has been a struggle to play games such as Retail Tycoon 2 (which is in beta) with a gamepad but now you have fixed this issue. Will definitely help on games that I and other people have worked on.
Yes, I use a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and it’s perfectly fine. If it doesn’t work, I believe people have made tutorials that uses Steam Controller Input to fix the issues.
This will be so useful.
A few times I have considered making a game menu where the buttons and such are placed on billboards so you have a 3D menu in first person you can look around in or such but then figured that this would only work for PC users.
So this feature is literally a life saver and now I can finally make these kinds of menus.
Edit: before I just make the assumption, does this actually work with billboard GUIs too? I really hope so.
