Extending UICamera to add a new type of Event Source

[KeithT]

We need to add support for a zSpace stylus as an NGUI Event Source, so an existing menu system built in NGUI can work with it.

Does anyone know if any one has done this before for other custom controller types?

Any pointers ?

Thanks in advance.

[ArenMook]

You will need to use UICamera.onCustomInput.

[KeithT]

Thanks, we have this partially working using onCustomInput but.....

We use the event system in UICamera to drive a lot of UI not just NGUI menus. As far as we can see UICamera is only designed to work with input devices with 2 degrees of freedom e.g. a mouse, touch, controller. A zSpace stylus has 6 degrees of freedom (and some new VR controllers I think have more http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=12284.0 - 2 hands) so we don't see a clean way of integrating this into UICamera without really rewriting quite a bit of it's internals.

Any suggestions?

[ArenMook]

You will need to find a way to convert it to 2D. NGUI menus are all 2D, even when displayed in a 3D world.