How do I make game pad events like joystick move camera

Anomaly

I'm new to Godot coming from Unreal and I've seen many tutorials on setting up a character but none of them have shown how to move/rotate the camera with a joystick

TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @Anomaly!

It should be relatively easy to move the camera with a joystick. There are several tutorials for Godot on how to move and rotate the camera with the mouse, and these tutorials should be convertible to use a joystick instead. The big thing is, instead of getting the mouse position, you instead want to make a Vector2 using the X and Y axes of the joystick.

Are you working on a 3D or 2D project? For 3D, the Godot FPS tutorial (part 4) shows how to make an Xbox controller move the camera.

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Dschoonmaker

It's always good to be able to re-map controls, if I were you I would code a script to remap controls. Godot has a built-in input map(go to Project Settings > Input Map), and you can create actions and bind new controls manually, but you can also do it automatically using

InputMap.action_erase_events(action)

and

InputMap.action_add_event(action, event)

You can get a simple setup using just these two functions, but you'll want to add a few more features to make it work better. In my system, I made it unable to accept mouse movement, with a dedicated option instead, simply because it's easy to accidentally move the mouse while remapping. For the same reason, I also added a joystick deadzone.

I can show you some of my code if you want.

You said you're new to Godot but come from UE, sorry if what I said was a little too complicated.