Also made accelerometer threshold for drift calibration more lenient for very noisy accelerometers.
The testcontroller tool could eventually be used to come up with a better way to profile an IMU's "stationary" noise so that this threshold can be as tight as necessary for the sake of automatic drift calibration.
(thanks @HilariousCow!)
* Added tools to Test Controller for evaluating gyroscope accuracy and IMU polling rates.
This adds a visual suite to the testcontroller tool to help validate IMU data from new gamepad drivers and HID implementations.
The 3D gizmo renders accumulated rotation using quaternion integration of gyroscope packets. If a controller is rotated 90° in real space, the gizmo should reflect a 90° change, allowing quick detection of incorrect sensitivity or misaligned axes.
Also includes:
- Euler angle readout (pitch, yaw, roll)
- Real-time drift calibration display with noise gating and progress
- Accelerometer vector overlay
- Live polling rate estimation to verify update frequency
Intended for developers working on controller firmware or SDL backend support to confirm correctness of IMU data processing.
We require stdbool.h in the build environment, so we might as well use the plain bool type.
If your environment doesn't have stdbool.h, this simple replacement will suffice:
typedef signed char bool;
These are integer values internally, but the API has been changed to make it easier to mix other render code with querying those values.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/7519
This gives applications and binding systems a clearer view of what the hardware is so they can make intelligent decisions about how to present things to the user.
Gamepad mappings continue to use abxy for the face buttons for simplicity and compatibility with earlier versions of SDL, however the "SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_USE_BUTTON_LABELS" hint no longer has any effect.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/6117
Also renamed most cases of SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_UNKNOWN to SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_STANDARD, and SDL_GetGamepadType() will return SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_UNKNOWN only if the gamepad is invalid.
