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# GCDeviceHaptics

The locations of haptic actuators on a game controller.

```
class GCDeviceHaptics
```

## Overview

Use this class to create a haptic engine with a specified locality. Any patterns you send to that engine play on the specified actuators.

> Important:
> The <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/CoreHaptics/CHHapticDeviceCapability/supportsHaptics> property of the engine that returns from the ``doc://com.apple.gamecontroller/documentation/GameController/GCDeviceHaptics/createEngine(withLocality:)`` method applies to the device, not the game controller. Use the ``doc://com.apple.gamecontroller/documentation/GameController/GCDeviceHaptics/supportedLocalities`` method in this class to determine whether a game controller supports haptics.

## Topics

### Creating a haptics engine

[`createEngine(withLocality:)`](/documentation/GameController/GCDeviceHaptics/createEngine(withLocality:))

Creates a haptics engine with the specified locality.

[`GCHapticDurationInfinite`](/documentation/GameController/GCHapticDurationInfinite)

An infinite duration for a haptics event.

### Getting the localities

[`supportedLocalities`](/documentation/GameController/GCDeviceHaptics/supportedLocalities)

The locations of haptic actuators on the device.

[`GCHapticsLocality`](/documentation/GameController/GCHapticsLocality)

The location of one or more haptics actuators on a game controller.


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