Wiimote plugin

This is a test release of my Wii remote plugin. It can read

the roll and pitch accelerometer values from one remote.

You'll need a Wii remote and a Bluetooth adapter. The connecting procedure depends on your adapter. Generally, you need to hold 1+2 on the remote for a couple of seconds and then start searching for BT devices. Hold the power button to turn off your remote afterwards.

It uses the Wiiuse api (http://www.wiiuse.net) so the following things should be possible:

• Support for 1-4 remotes
• Accelerometer support
• Button presses
• IR camera tracking (pointing)
• Nunchuck support: accelerometer and buttons

I included a simple test .cap where you can rotate a box to shove some physics blocks around. You need to connect the remote before starting.

<img src="http://paahdin.com/projects/wiimote/blockrotate.jpg">

The values near 0 (level) are a bit jumpy, but smoothing should be easy to implement in Construct.

Download wiimote.zip

Zomg!! I dont have a wiimote, sadly, but im glad this has been made. Sounds awesome. Wish i knew enuf c++ to make a plugin. edit: now you have experience with the sdk, do you plan to make a general joypad plugin?

Wow.

I do have some wiimotes at home, so I'll be testing this then.

One thing which would be cool; if you're happy to release the source code I could help you turn it into a behavior?

Wow, this'd be awesome to have built in as a behavior! This is really cool stuff.

Wow, Wiimote plugin!!!! Brilliant, who hasn't thought of making a Wii game, now this is the next best thing! I'm gonna have to get one of my Wiimotes and try this out later.

Sadly I don't have a Wiimote, but this looks great! Nice one!

Awesome!

EDIT: I just tested it out. It's a good start, but there seems to be quite a bit of lag. If you can clean that up and add the rest of the Wiimote features, it could be a really great plugin.

This looks awesome

Now I just need to get one of those bluetooth things for my computer...

Hah cool nice one!

i'm really eager to try it, but the host does not respond to me ... it's probably just a temporary issue, but if it's not, could you upload it somewhere else? that'd be rad!

New release! Features:

• Pointing (x, y, distance from screen)
• Button presses for all buttons
• Wiimote Yaw, requires IR
• Can set screen size, important to operate correctly
• Set sensor bar location above/below screen
• Enable/disable IR tracking

<img src="http://www.paahdin.com/projects/wiimote/pointing.jpeg">

I didn't think I would bother with IR tracking yet but I found out I already had a suitable "sensor" bar from my EMS Topgun lightgun. Otherwise I would've probably built my own wireless bar, it's just a few IR leds after all.

I updated the example .cap. Press 1 on keyboard to enable pointing. Press A on the remote to keep spawning physics boxes where you are pointing.

Problems:

• Button presses are continuous
• One time there was weird lag with everything and I had to restart construct. If the cursor appears very unresponsive restart construct.
• Accelerometer values near 0 are still jumpy. Dunno if this is a hardware or API limitation.

Download

Damn, damn, damn this looks so cool. I wish I could try it out

I might have to buy a wiimote just to try this...

this is seriously.... too. awesome. i want to buy a wiimote just for this!

Construct is giving me an error saying that it can't load the plugin.

EDIT: Blah, scratch that. I accidentally got the regular and runtime version mixed up.