Hello, how would I go about getting the gamestate management tutorial to register which controller the gamer is using, and use that one for the rest of the session (as per the guidelines)

Use NetworkStateManagement, which does this for you. :)

Alternatively, create a new GameScreen that is displayed before the main menu. On this screen, do this:

and then use Control.ControllingPlayer throughout the entire game.

Thanks for that, I must be missing something though. I have no experience with the Game State Management system and am trying to help a friend.

Anyway the issue is that once the screen changes, I lose control of the controller, and it defaults back to playerindex one, and I have no idea why. Here is my code on the fist screen:

 

bool HandlePlayerInput(InputState input, PlayerIndex playerIndex)

{

// Look up inputs for the specified player profile.

KeyboardState keyboardState = input.CurrentKeyboardStates[(int)playerIndex];

for (PlayerIndex idx = PlayerIndex.One; idx <= PlayerIndex.Four; idx++)

{

GamePadState gamePad = GamePad.GetState(idx);

if (GamePad.GetState(idx).Buttons.A == ButtonState.Pressed)

{

ControllingPlayer = idx;

LoadPGScreen(playerIndex);

}

}

// The game pauses either if the user presses the pause button, or if

// they unplug the active gamepad. This requires us to keep track of

// whether a gamepad was ever plugged in, because we don't want to pause

// on PC if they are playing with a keyboard and have no gamepad at all!

bool gamePadDisconnected = !GamePad.GetState(Control.ControllingPlayer).IsConnected &&

input.GamePadWasConnected[(int)playerIndex];

if (gamePadDisconnected)

{

MessageBoxScreen gamePadDisconectedMessageBox =

new MessageBoxScreen(Resources.GamepadDisconected, false);

ScreenManager.AddScreen(gamePadDisconectedMessageBox, playerIndex);

return false;

}

else

{

if (GamePad.GetState(Control.ControllingPlayer).IsConnected)

{

// load PGScreen

if (GamePad.GetState(Control.ControllingPlayer).IsButtonDown(Buttons.A))

{

LoadPGScreen(playerIndex);

}

}

and the second:

Well the first problem I see is that you're using the built in input handling method, which I've found is much more confusing than writing your own. I would take it out and put as much of the repeating code such as the disconnection check in reuseable methods in the Control class, so you don't have to copy and paste it for each screen. (rule #1 of OOP: if you're using copy and paste, you're doing something wrong ;) )

The only problem I see is that you're duplicating code in the first code block - take out the "else" statement after the GamePadDisconnected check. Put the playerindex control loop in the Update method too, since IIRC HandlePlayerInput is only called when a controller has input. This could lead to the loss of control that you're experiencing.