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Asked: 2026-06-17T02:46:13+00:00

currently having some fun in XNA programming a topdown shooter towards the XBox-controller but

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currently having some fun in XNA programming a topdown shooter towards the XBox-controller but I’m having some issues right now.

So I move my character with the left thumbstick and aim with my right, so essentially I can move in any direction and still shoot in 360 angle. What I have right now works, but it’s very sensitive and “tacky”, it likes to stick a bit extra on all the 90 angles before it moves on to the next angle if I’m moving the thumbstick in a perfect outer circle.

So this is what I have right now:

direction.X = gpState_new.ThumbSticks.Right.X;
direction.Y = gpState_new.ThumbSticks.Right.Y;
rotation = Math.Atan2(direction.Y, direction.X);

And then when I draw the player I use rotation as the angle of which I’m drawing it.
Do you got any tips on how to do this better ?

Fredrik

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  1. Editorial Team

    It looks like this is because of the “deadzone” on the stick. The basic fix is probably something like is to use GamePadDeadZone.Circular. Perhaps before your code, something like 

    GamePadState gpSTate_new = GamePad.GetState(playerIndex, GamePadDeadZone.Circular);

    A very similar question was asked on GameDev (and you can see a more detailed answer there), which you might have better luck on with this kinds of questions in the future.

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