Windows How to check left, right, and up on analogue stick on gamepad?

[iNCEPTIONAL]

I'm not sure how to check the left, right, and up directions on the left analogue stick when trying to use gamepad commands?

The left and right directions seem to combined into a single horizontal axis (gp_axislh), and the same with up and down (gp_axislv), which is different to the d-pad where you can specifically select the likes of left and right separately with gp_padl and gp_padr, and up with gp_padu.

This is the code I'm using:

left                = (keyboard_check(ord('A')) or (keyboard_check(vk_left)) or (gamepad_button_check(0, gp_padl)) or (gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh)))
right               = (keyboard_check(ord('D')) or (keyboard_check(vk_right)) or (gamepad_button_check(0, gp_padr)) or (gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh)))
forward             = (keyboard_check(ord('W')) or (keyboard_check(vk_up)) or (gamepad_button_check(0, gp_padu)) or (gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislv)))
backward            = (keyboard_check(ord('S')) or (keyboard_check(vk_down)) or (gamepad_button_check(0, gp_padd)) or (gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislv)))

But as you can see, the left and right commands use the same axis at the end, gp_axislh, because there doesn't seem to be any other option to choose for left and right separately.

 

[GMWolf]

gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh) will return a value between -1 and 1;
-1 is stick to the left, 0 is in the center and 1 is to the right. it can also return any value in between.
one trick is to check if they are greater than a threshold.
so left:
gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh) < -0.5
and right:
gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh) > 0.5

you can also check out my tutorial on uusing gamepads, where i uase a different setup:
Youtube link

 

[iNCEPTIONAL]

gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh) will return a value between -1 and 1;
-1 is stick to the left, 0 is in the center and 1 is to the right. it can also return any value in between.
one trick is to check if they are greater than a threshold.
so left:
gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh) < -0.5
and right:
gamepad_axis_value(0, gp_axislh) > 0.5

you can also check out my tutorial on uusing gamepads, where i uase a different setup:
Youtube link

Cool, that did the trick.

Thanks :-D