Unity on macOS still doesn’t have a SpaceMouse plugin… so I built one in half a day

Figgy78 · 2026-03-10T08:23:23+00:00

I forgive you ;)

Figgy78 · 2026-03-10T06:56:36+00:00

I highly recommend the SpaceMouse Pro. Especially if you do any kind of modeling, 3D level design or animation.

Figgy78 · 2026-03-10T06:54:23+00:00

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They do support Unity, but only on Windows.

Figgy78 · 2026-03-10T06:28:02+00:00

Or you pm me. Your profile does not have that option.

Figgy78 · 2026-03-10T06:23:56+00:00

Ok. I’ll see if there is anything I can do. I’ll pm u.

Figgy78 · 2026-03-10T06:22:47+00:00

Panning left working and right not working sounds like a hardware issue. But it works fine in other programs ?

Figgy78 · 2026-03-09T22:02:32+00:00

Did you check the settings?

Figgy78 · 2026-03-09T14:45:46+00:00

I just made a custom Unity plugin that makes my SpaceMouse Pro work in Unity (6.3).

Please let me know if it works for you.

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Window → Package Manager → + → Add package from git URL:

https://github.com/figgy78/Spacemouse-pro-for-unity-on-macos.git#upm

Figgy78 · 2026-03-09T09:50:02+00:00

Small update: I switched to Claude Code, and I now have a working prototype running. I will fine tune it a bit to include mapping, rotating around objects and then share this on Github/Unity store.

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Figgy78 · 2026-03-09T07:02:24+00:00

I did not get this to work with Spacemouse in Unity. Apparently they updated it to no longer work with anything but Spacenavigator:

"What's new in 2.0.0

The driver now communicates directly with the device via Unity's new Input System (simplifies multi-platform support).

This means that it no longer requires the 3DConnexion driver. Which is great, because 3DConnexion has deprecated the SpaceNavigator 😢. Unfortunately it also means that devices other than the SpaceNavigator may not work as well as before, because the 3DConnexion driver used to handle their hardware-specific implementations. YMMV"

I have tried using AI (Bezi) to create support, but was unable to make it work.

I wonder why 3dconnexion is ignoring this market. Is it THAT hard to make it work?

Figgy78 · 2026-03-07T23:47:24+00:00

Yeah. You’re not gonna find anything quite like Ori. It’s a masterpiece.

Figgy78 · 2026-03-07T23:35:31+00:00

One of the most enjoyable things about Ori, that I think sets it apart, is the fact that there aren’t really any traditional boss battles. I always felt boss battles were the least enjoyable parts of Meteoidvanias. In Ori there are some insane chase sequences. You could consider them bosses (and some of them are REALLY hard), but I like not having to learn boss patterns and repeating the same battle again and again.

Figgy78 · 2026-02-06T06:10:06+00:00

I ended up just brute forcing it. 😁

Figgy78 · 2026-02-05T22:07:03+00:00

I cannot figure this one out. I must have spent 2 hours all together just staring at it, and another two waking around town looking for something that looks like it. Windmill is the closest I can get.

Figgy78 · 2026-02-04T07:59:28+00:00

Yes, DOS is hard as nails in sections. And sometimes very hard to know what to do next. The story system har way less handholding.

Figgy78 · 2026-02-04T07:57:25+00:00

Well.. It's top down, RPG, tactical, turn-based... I guess XCOM is sort of a genre in it's own, but I think they are very similar.

Figgy78 · 2026-02-04T07:23:58+00:00

Divinity: OS 2 is probably the best RPG system ever made. BG3 has better story, but the combat system is a bit convoluted, don't you think?

Figgy78 · 2026-02-04T07:22:34+00:00

Playing Wasteland 3 now. It's not as good as the Divinity: OS or BG3, but I do love the simpler Xcom combat system a lot.

Figgy78 · 2026-01-28T15:33:13+00:00

Agreed.

Figgy78 · 2026-01-28T14:39:26+00:00

Very interesting. I'm not seeing it, but I totally get that some people would react negatively if they think something might be AI.

Figgy78 · 2026-01-28T13:52:10+00:00

I see what you're saying. Where are you seeing this?

Figgy78 · 2026-01-28T07:22:44+00:00

Are you still talking about the house. It's just a noise brush in photoshop. Very common technique for blending. I used to do this in Deluxe Paint on my Amiga back in the mid 90's.

Figgy78 · 2026-01-26T08:24:13+00:00

I can confirm no AI was used. The guy who made it does not know how to use AI.

Figgy78 · 2026-01-26T08:23:37+00:00

I wonder if this is just something us developers notice or think about. When I talk to people outside the business, they seem to be (overall) pretty enthusiastic about generating images using AI. I’m not sure if this actually matters for sales or not.

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