PS4 Controller Progression

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 This week I began the creation of the PS4 controller. It has so far been a very smooth process, however,  I do see a lot of difficulty in the future with the shape of the controller handles and having it appear smooth and ergonomic enough.

I began with a cube to get the basic shape of the controller in mirrored instances. In retrospect, I think it may have been easier to begin with cylinders to create the basic shape of the handles and boolean the pieces together.



I began to roughly shape the handles and prepare the two face sections for the buttons later on. I then created a cylinder and began shaping the joystick modules. As this obviously did not add to the instance, I did have to copy it and apply each separately, however that was something I wasn't too worried about at he moment and moved them off to the side to continue the main body.

I began shaping the whole face of the controller and added in the touch-pad and began shaping the bottom half and angling down. Next, I shaped the back of the controller and began modelling the "lightbar" section of the controller, along with the small USB type B input.




I then finalized the shape of the joystick modules to be used later.

This is the time i finally noticed that I had made a grave error in regards to the top of the controller and its positioning. As you can see in the side view window in the below image, the light bar/USB section is suppose to come down much lower that I had put it originally.

However, I was simply able to drag and rotate the whole segment down, and increase the size of the light-bar to place it at the right angle.


I shaped the controller further and used 'curcilarize' to get the face button faces to be completely round. I also added the beginning of the audio jack input on the front of the controller.

I used a boolean and extruded the PS button out and quickly added a rough guide for the speaker holes. I then copied the joystick module and had a quick look at the placement of them. I moved them to the side again afterwards.


The controller is progressing well and I should have it done by the next weeks lesson for review by Leo.

The abstract idea remains the same, however no further research has been done on it yet.



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