Sixense Controllers

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Sixense Controllers

This plug-in provides support for Sixense controllers, including the Razer Hydra. The Sixense controllers provide data for 6DOF position/orientation, analog joystick, and buttons.

Initialization

The Sixense plug-in is implemented as a Vizard extension, with the following methods:

Method	Description
<sixense>.addController(id=0)	Returns the controller with the specified ID.
<sixense>.getControllers()	Returns a list of all the currently detected controllers.
<sixense>.BUTTON_1 <sixense>.BUTTON_2 <sixense>.BUTTON_3 <sixense>.BUTTON_4 <sixense>.BUTTON_START <sixense>.BUTTON_BUMPER <sixense>.BUTTON_JOYSTICK	Button IDs supported by the Sixense controller object.
<sixense>.CONTROLLER <sixense>.JOYSTICK <sixense>.TRIGGER	Sixense controller position flags. The default flag is <sixense>.CONTROLLER.

The Sixense controller object contains the following methods, in addition to the standard extension sensor methods:

Method	Description
<controller>.getControllerID()	Get the Sixense controller ID
<controller>.getJoystick()	Get the joystick [x,y] position which will be in the [-1,1] range
<controller>.getTrigger()	Get the state of the analog trigger button in the [0,1] range

Example

The following code shows how to get all the connected Sixense controllers and attach a model to them:

# Add sixense extension
sixense = viz.add('sixense.dle')

# Add controllers
controllers = sixense.getControllers()
for c in controllers:
viz.link(c, vizshape.addAxes(length=0.2))

The Sixense controllers also support the vizconfig interface so you can quickly see the button/joystick values:

# Register controllers with vizconfig window
import vizconfig
controllers = sixense.getControllers()
for c in controllers:
vizconfig.register(c)