How to: Activate Controller Vibration

This topic describes how to activate vibration for the Xbox One gamepad. It assumes that you are familiar with how to use the gamepad API as described in Getting Started with the Gamepad API.

To activate controller vibration:

Use Gamepad.Gamepads to get all connected gamepads.

C++
```
auto gamepads = Gamepad::Gamepads;  
```

Retrieve the desired gamepad from the returned gamepads.

C++

IGamepad^ gamepad0;
      
// For simplicity, we assume there is only one connected Xbox One gamepad.
// Otherwise, check if the gamepads vector size is > 0 first, by using this: if (gamepads->Size > 0)
gamepad0 = gamepads->GetAt(0);

Use SetVibration to set the left motor speed and the right motor speed.
The following code sets the speed of both motors to 0.75f.

C++

GamepadVibration vib;
                  
vib.LeftMotorLevel    = 0.75f;   // Valid range is 0.0 - 1.0
vib.RightMotorLevel   = 0.75f;  // Valid range is 0.0 - 1.0
vib.LeftTriggerLevel  = 0.0f;  // Valid range is 0.0 - 1.0
vib.RightTriggerLevel = 0.0f; // Valid range is 0.0 - 1.0
                  
gamepad0->SetVibration(vib);

To stop gamepad vibration:

Set the speed of both motors to zero.

C++

GamepadVibration vib;
                  
vib.LeftMotorLevel    = 0.0f;
vib.RightMotorLevel   = 0.0f;
vib.LeftTriggerLevel  = 0.0f;
vib.RightTriggerLevel = 0.0f;
                  
gamepad0->SetVibration(vib);

How to: Activate Controller Vibration

To activate controller vibration:

To stop gamepad vibration:

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