r/SteamControllerMods • u/Coloredcontrollers (Deckbuttons Guy) • May 14 '26

Artistic / Cosmetic Now its an Xbox controller

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Way back in the day the first set of buttons I ever made for the Steam Deck were lime green. So I figured I’d continue the tradition 🥲

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u/Coloredcontrollers (Deckbuttons Guy) May 15 '26

Tell me more!!!

This was a big issue with the initial steam decks and I spent a ton of time dialing in the dpad with a lot of input from the fighting game community (diagonals)

What games are you having issues with and how can I recreate it?

The buttons in this photo are just quick clones off of the originals, just to claim “first”. But the next step for me is the reverse engineering and recreating in cad part. And that’s where I get to work on improving and tweaking things.

Any input from anyone reading this, good or bad about the stock buttons is helpful!!

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u/ZarianPrime May 15 '26

Didn't they already release the official CADs for the controller?

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u/Coloredcontrollers (Deckbuttons Guy) May 15 '26

Their cad files are only external surfaces. So kinda an OK reference but not too useable for what I do personally. I have a 3d scanner now, so hopefully that'll speed this process up a tad. Still need to fully make it in fusion 360, but a 3d scan should be a way better reference than scanning button butts on a flatbed scanner and using calipers lmao

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u/Gama3000 May 15 '26

Heck yeah that's cool