Recoloured Gamepad Skins
With the visibility being the priority when making default skins for Mini Padder, I boldly assumed that bright gray as a default colour would cover the demand of the users.
It does its job very well, but there were requests for recoloured default skins, and I finally decided I should make some after I saw the first review (thanks a lot for the review) that pointed this out.
The default gamepad skins now come in 12 colour variations.
Disc D-pad Gamepad Skin
Also I am recently interested in fighting games, and while the default gamepad skins represents their dpad well, it was bothering me that there’s no visual difference for the neutral position on the skins.
Can you tell the Z move (6532) from the quarter-circle (632) on the gamepad skins with a 4-way dpad? Was that move a continuous mash of orthogonal directions or a diagonal?
There is this Xbox One Pro gamepad, and I thought it would be helpful to put its disc dpad and give the neutral position its own highlighted area, like how the joystick skins always have its stick sprite at the position. This would make it easier to spot moments where the player makes a no move.
Now there is a xinput based gamepad skin with the disc dpad. This skin also features buttons without labels, so you can customize it to have button symbols of your fighting game.
While making this skin, I modified a line in the code so it’s now possible to make a skin where 8-way dpad movements and left analog stick moves can exist at the same time.
I am thinking about making a gallery page where you can browse custom skins. Having a dynamic website is expensive, so I might do the manual work and put a static page with the list, updating occasionally to list skins I can find. Or maybe I can turn the Issue board in GitHub for that purpose, on which GitHub users can upload.
Here’s the changelog: