Setting up controller support (Windows only) - Part 2

Yesterday I taught you how to prepare Kodi and download, install and setup file associations for Xpadder files. Today we will continue configuring a gamepad for Kodi.

So let's begin! Open up Xpadder and you should be greeted with the same screen that we left with yesterday. You need to have your controller inserted for this to work. Follow the on screen instructions, click the pad button on the left and click "New" from the drop down menu.
The menu you are greeted with will have 7 tabs below the image area, They should read as:

• Start - Basic Information
• Image - Add an image to your pad, this can make it easier to use Xpadder
• Images can be found here.
• Sticks - This is where you will setup any analogue sticks on your controller
• DPad - This is where the directional buttons will be setup
• Buttons - Almost of the rest of the buttons on your controller will be setup here.
• Triggers - If you have analogue trigger buttons (found on newer gamepads) setup is done here
• If your triggers are digital then they will be added as buttons instead

The easiest way to setup Xpadder is to follow the onscreen instructions. Simply move to a tab and enable it if needed. For sticks it will tell you to move your stick in directions, just do this. For buttons you just tap the button on the gamepad, and a grey square representative of that button will appear on screen. You should end up with grey squares on screen for every button. If you do and you've added a background image, you should end up with something similar to this:

To save this configuration, click the pad in the top left hand side, and select "Save As" in the drop down menu. 

Mapping

To map a button, you need to click on a button, where you will be greeted with this screen:

Click on the keyboard button that is wanted to be mapped to the specified button.

Kodi have made a configuration that is a great way to navigate through their system, I have done my best to emulate this configuration, so below I have listed the closest to this configuration that I could make with the keyboard shortcuts found here. 

Button	Shortcut
Dpad	Directional Buttons
Y	TAB
X	ESC
A	Enter
RB	Q
RT	PgDn
LB	Middle Mouse Button
LT	PgUp
Start	M
Select	Backspace
Right Stick Up	+
Right Stick Down	-
Rick Stick Click	I
Left Stick Left	Ctrl+Left
Left Stick Right	Ctrl+Right
Left Stick Up	L
Left Stick Down	T

Now that you have that done, open up Kodi and start using your controller, and have fun!