How to unbind a controller to manually bind controls myself?

Recently i came back to beamng drive playing on my wheel. I had custom bindings set how i want them and have been functioning up until last night when i came back.

I then discover that the game has (by default, presumably after some random game update) automatically binded the buttons on my wheel to whatever the game thought was right.

I want to know how to unbind every button in one sweep (going through every control to unbind them is extremely time consuming and extremely infuriating) so i can manually set back the bindings that i had before the game messed it all up

 

Sorry I didn't understand, could you simplify your question?

 

You can reset it to defaults here, maybe that helps?:

 

I am having the same issue as OP, and unfortunately what this calls out only resets bindings to default.

I also recently returned to beam, and I wanted to setup my simrig, but it auto-assigned a lot of things for my wheel. Which is a neat feature, except I just wanted to bind everything myself. As such I am likely going to have to go through each control in the game and manually unassign them. It does not help that there is no 'search by input' that other sims have. If there is something super obvious I missed and you can easily clear all bindings easily, please correct me & hopefully that can help out someone in a similar situation later .

 

There is a way to do this, but it's a bit complicated. I'll try my best to explain it.

Here's how:
- Open BeamNG, and reset the binding for your device(s).
- Now delete any one of the default bindings for your device (throttle, brake, clutch, steering, etc.).
- Close BeamNG.
- Go to your user folder, and go to 0.36\settings\inputmaps. Here you will see a list of .diff files. These .diff files are created when you customize bindings for a device.
- Find the .diff file that corresponds to your device (the device name is listed in the file). For example, I have a Logitech G920, and it's bindings are located in the file named c262046d.diff.
- Once you have found the file, open it.
- You should see a section that looks similar to this:

Code:

  "removed":[
    {
      "action":"accelerate",
      "control":"yaxis"
    }
  ],

- Now navigate to the BeamNG.drive installation directory, usually located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive, but could be different if you chose a different install location.
- Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\settings\inputmaps. Here, there will be a large list of .json files. These .json files hold the default bindings for different devices.
- Look for the file that has the same name as the one you opened from your user folder and open it.
- You should see a section that looks like this:

Code:

  "bindings":[
    {"control":"button0", "action":"parkingbrake"},
    {"control":"button4", "action":"shiftUp"},
    {"control":"button5", "action":"shiftDown"},
    ... (lots of bindings I'm skipping)
    {"control":"yaxis", "action":"accelerate", "isInverted":true}
  ]

- Copy all the bindings in this section, from the first "{" to the last "}" (include the curly brackets, but not the "[" or "]").
- Now go back to your custom bindings file and select the same stuff (from the first "{" to the last "}"), but in the "removed" section, and press Ctrl + V.
- Save the file.

You device should now have no bindings set up for it. Basically, all this does is sets all the default bindings as removed ones, so none are assigned.

If you don't want to copy or edit the code, you can also just look at the list of bindings in the .json file to know which ones to remove, but that might take a bit.

Hope this helps!