Second Life

[jwick]

Second Life only uses the first joystick-type device it finds. It finds the 3DxWare emulation joystick before it finds the native SpaceNavigator, so it tries to use that, which doesn't work well.

To work with Second Life, you have to Disable the 3Dconnexion emulation Joystick. After this, SL will use the native 3D mouse.

You also have to define a special profile for Second Life.

The steps are:

1) Start the Device Manager and find the "HID-compliant game controller" that has an ID Value of HID/3DXKMJ_HIDMINI&Col03 (Properties->Details->Hardware Ids).

2) Disable that device (Properties->Driver->Disable).

3) Create a profile for Second Life using the 3DMouse template.

4) Edit that new profile with notepad. Change
<Transport>S80</Transport>
to
<Transport>DirectInput</Transport>

5) Restart Second Life.

6) Make sure you Enable your 3D mouse at the top of in Second Life->Me->Preferences->Move & View->Other Devices.

You have to reenable your emulation joystick in the Device Manager to play other games that use the joystick interface.

[Filthy Adored]

Thanks for that , fixed it i was about to cry lol, the instructions worked perfectly when I followed what they said not what I thought u meant XD

[jwick]

The SpacePilot PRO acts differently in SecondLife than the other devices. The object under control, or the view, springs back to center when the device springs back to center.

To make it work correctly, open the SL preference settings. You will find an option for "3D Cursor". With the SPP, uncheck this option and it will work fine. This checkbox toggles SL between "relative" and "absolute" mode for interpreting the data coming from 3Dx devices.

[maarauer]

Greetings everyone

I read this thread and searched the net, but still haven't been able to properly configure my spacenavigator for SL.

It works almost all right, even though I don't seem to be able to control the settings for this program. For example, I'd really, REALLY like to reverse all axes, because I don't feel comfortable at all with the defaults. But no matter how I change the settings, nothing changes in the 3dSN behavior. So, something is wrong in the settings.

I tried to do as was adviced in this thread. First of all, I don't find any HID compliant game controller with that id. I do find the id's and drivers, so I know I'm in the right place. So I don't know which driver I should turn off, or maybe I shouldn't?

None of my settings in the control panel seem to affect the navigator behavior in SL. I've tried altering 'all applications' and created a profile with Second Life name - but no change. BTW I don't even know how and where to point a certain 3d navigator profile to a certain program: there seems to be no clear guidance about this either. Or maybe I am just blind, in which case I'm happy if I'm given links to guiding pages...

Anyway. Tried everything I could think of, without results. So I'm really happy if someone can help. I'd appreciate if I had some control over my 3DSN... Thanks in advance!

[Hypersonic]

When you create a profile you can select the executable.

Click 3dxWare from the toolbar, then click manage profiles button, then click the add button, then in step one (left side) you select the executable (3 ways to do that) then step 2 (right side) you select a template from which to start with from the drop down menu. You can then alter the name and executable name (right side).

I'm not sure what the executable is for Second Life, possibly whatever you click on to start it, unless that's a launcher. When playing try minimizing it, then you should be able to see the executable name on the taskbar.

One can change the executable from a pre-existing profile by editing the .xml file in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg\ also, using notepad. Edit the <ExecutableName> field. I don't see a way from the User interface though.

Looking at the beginning of this thread it looks like there's a few other things to set for this simulation.

[maarauer]

Thanks Hypersonic.

The path to the executable must've altered during re-installations and upgrades of SL viewer, and I was trying to find a way to check the path via 3DSN user interface. Now I know that's not even possible... so I just deleted all my previous program profiles and created a brand new one. Voilá , it works. Why do solutions always seem so stupidly simple - afterwards *sigh*

Thanks for the tip!

[Hypersonic]

I'm glad its working now. Sometimes starting from scratch makes it easier.

Actually 3dxWare doesn't keep track of where an executable is located (the path.) it seems. Just whenever an executable with that name is run it feeds that application the data, using DirectInput I believe.

[Mienja]

I've got a conundrum with drivers/software for my SpacePilot Pro. Just got it in the mail a few days ago. At first I Installed the suggested drivers from THIS [img]http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd235/junolea/Second%20Life/win7-64.png
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Then I try to install the use everywhere software from http://www.3dconnexion.com/index.php?id=60
that page. And it says I've already got the software installed. Which one am I supposed to use to create profiles or are they the same, because the version numbers don't match up at all. Is the file for the 3DxWare 10 Beta 11 (Windows 64-bit) installing the drivers as well or what? I'm trying to get this set up before I give up and call to get my return item slip

[jwick]

Mienja,

Those are two different versions of the driver. The one in the photobucket image is the shipping driver (3DxWare 6). The one in the link, is a new beta driver.

They should both work with all applications that support the 3D mouse directly. You need the beta of 3DxWare 10 ("3D Mouse Anywhere") to work with applications that do not directly support the 3D mouse.

You have to uninstall 3DxWare 6 before you can install 3DxWare 10. You can switch back if you don't like it.

[Mienja]

Mienja,

Those are two different versions of the driver. The one in the photobucket image is the shipping driver (3DxWare 6). The one in the link, is a new beta driver.

They should both work with all applications that support the 3D mouse directly. You need the beta of 3DxWare 10 ("3D Mouse Anywhere") to work with applications that do not directly support the 3D mouse.

You have to uninstall 3DxWare 6 before you can install 3DxWare 10. You can switch back if you don't like it.

Thank you so much for the speedy reply, I wanted to delete one of the posts but couldn't find a way to do that....thanks so much for clearing that up for me!