Setting Up Your Project for the Razer Hydra Controller

Before you can make use of the Razer Hydra controller in Torque 3D you will need to download the Sixense SDK from their web site and extract it to a convenient directory.

Configure Your project.conf

With the Sixense SDK in place, you will need to modify your project's buildFiles/config/project.conf file in a text editor. The first step is to let Torque 3D's Project Generator know where the Sixense SDK is located. The easiest way to do this is to add the $RAZERHYDRA_SDK_PATH global variable to the top of your project.conf file. For example:

$RAZERHYDRA_SDK_PATH = "C:\Users\dwyand_2\Downloads\RazerHydra\SixenseSDK_062612";

You may also create a Windows environmental variable named TORQUE_RAZERHYDRA_PATH that also provides an absolute path to the Sixense SDK. Going this route doesn't store the path within the project.conf file, which may be required if multiple developers are working on the same project.

The second addition to your project.conf file is a reference to the Torque 3D's Project Generator module for the Razer Hydra. Add the following between the Torque3D::beginConfig() and Torque3D::endConfig() lines:

    // Include Razer Hydra module
    includeModule( 'razerHydra' );

With these changes in place you may run your project's generateProjects.bat file to rebuild the various Visual Studio files.

Example project.conf

Here is a complete example of a project.conf file with all of the required changes:

<?php

// Set this true to enable hifi networking instead of standard.
// In general ... hifi is designed to better deal with fast
// moving players in close proximity to each other, such as
// a racing game.
$TORQUE_HIFI_NET = false;

// Set this to true to enable the ExtendedMove class.  This
// allows the passing of absolute position and rotation input
// device information from the client to the server.
$TORQUE_EXTENDED_MOVE = false;

// Our path to the Razer Hydra SDK:
$RAZERHYDRA_SDK_PATH = "C:\Users\dwyand_2\Downloads\RazerHydra\SixenseSDK_062612";

// Configure Torque 3D
Torque3D::beginConfig( "win32", "HydraRyder" );

    // Include Razer Hydra module
    includeModule( 'razerHydra' );
        
    // Enable for optional minidump debugging support
    // addProjectDefine( 'TORQUE_MINIDUMP' );
        
Torque3D::endConfig();

?>

Required DLLs

Before you may run your freshly compiled game you will need to include the appropriate Sixense DLLs with your game's executable. These files are located in the SixenseSDK_062612/bin/win32 directory. Specifically you should copy the sixense.dll (the release library) and sixensed.dll (the debug library) into the same directory as your game's executable. It appears that the debug version of the Sixense DLL also requires DeviceDLL.dll that is located in the SixenseSDK_062612\samples\win32\sixense_simple3d directory. You should also copy this file to your game's executable directory.

When it comes time to release your game you only need to include the sixense.dll library.