Pierre-Felix Breton Posted November 2, 2002 Share Posted November 2, 2002 Hi! I would be interest knowing how many 3d software users uses tablets (like Wacom or other) and hear about glitches or problems they get with the UI of their favorite application? Best regards, [ November 04, 2002, 07:48 AM: Message edited by: Pierre-Felix Breton ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted November 3, 2002 Share Posted November 3, 2002 Hi Pierre, sure i use a Wacom A5 tablet, who will work on the computer with a brick in his hand ? It takes some time to get used to it, but when you throw your mouse away from the beginning you never want to go back. But as always, size matters I've started with an A4 tablet, and that was to large, the A5 has the same size like a normal mousepad and works fine. I use it in mouse mode, so no problems with software since now. HTH ingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plastic Posted November 3, 2002 Share Posted November 3, 2002 i have a wacom intuos2 A4 and like it very much. it's a must for photoshop. with 3dsmax i still use the mouse...a tablet doesn't make much sense here since there is not much support for it. except the new painter interface, but i didn't really use it yet. however, there are no glitches. everything works well. it would be great if there was dual-controller support in max, like with deep paint. the 4d mouse for rotate/zoom/pen and the pen for everything else...thats pretty cool with deep paint... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted November 3, 2002 Share Posted November 3, 2002 I use an Intuos 2 for photoshop and painter. Does anyone use a tablet for Max? I saw a "making of" for some CG film and the animators were controlling Maya with a pen and tablet, it looked a lot more comfortable than mousing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted November 3, 2002 Share Posted November 3, 2002 Hi all, I recently bought an IntuosA4 and I'm still wondering why I haven't bought one many years earlier. It's really amazing. Simply, natural, quick and not giving you any shoulder disease! Indeed a must for ps, great for painter classic but especially for browsing an OS etc. It's much faster than a simple mouse, which I only use in max now. (Mainly because I have a habit of moving the object I select with my pen). If you use both your pen and 4D mouse, you have a lot of customazible buttons, which is just great for your most favourite shortcuts (previous/next step in ps! etc.) For intensive use in ps I recommend an aditional stroke pen, which has a moveable tip of 1.3mm instead of the normal 0.1mm. If you think your grip pen gives you good pressure control, you ain't seen anything yet if you haven't tried a stroke pen! A pitty it doesn't come with the standard two buttons imho, but ok when combined with the 4D mouse of course. rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 of course.... I used an old tablet for many years.... now.... 3 years using an A3 intuos 1 wacom. It's essential for a graphics designer. The only problem I see is that it uses more CPU than a mouse. at least my tablet. because it's the old intuos serial (not usb). There is an executable process in memory called tablet.exe and sometimes gets up to 20% of CPU... and it doesn't have a mouse wheel. does it have it the new wacom 2 ? tip: try putting a paper with cello on the tablet and using the pencil on it. gives you more feeling of painting on a paper. I did it because I found the wacom surface quite slippery to me. [ November 04, 2002, 01:17 AM: Message edited by: HeDaCoM ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre-Felix Breton Posted November 4, 2002 Author Share Posted November 4, 2002 Great! I use a Wacom Intuos 2 myself. Maybe my question was not very clear. For example, in 3ds MAX, I often move things by mistake (and without knowing) due to the small "slip" that graphic tablets let you do. The moves are usually not visually noticeable but are enough to end up with shadow leaks or other rendering artifacts... and of course, at the time I notice it, the undo stack is gone... I wondered if you also have this problem or if you saw programs that offer features to prevent theses things to happen. Best regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 Looks like you have to change your settings for the Wacom tablet, i've never had this problem. ingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 Hi Pierre-Felix, It's much faster than a simple mouse, which I only use in max now. (Mainly because I have a habit of moving the object I select with my pen). I mentioned the same problem as you did before, but not to clearly I admit. Indeed I have the same problem almost everytime when selecting anything in max. I would love to hear how ingo has solved this. rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 I don't understand exactly what kind of movements do you say... what "slip"? how can you move something without knowing it? do you use the pen to use max? one annoying thing about my tablet is that if it is near the monitor the cursor starts flickering and moving randmly. Don't know if this happnes with the new intuos 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 Hi Hedacom, The slip we are talking about is simply this: One clicks with an intuos to select an object. When selecting this way the pen moves very very veryslightly. Although it does not moves half a millimeter imho, it seems to be enough to move the object in max. This is extremely enoying. It seems that ingo doesn't have this problem at all, but we are still waiting for some of his tips on this *hint hint* (héhé) I only have a flickering cursor (on an intuos2) when I'm using two or more pens/devices at the same time above the tablet. rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 Ahh, now i know what youre talking about. Well in my software moving and dragging are two different things, you can select an object and than move it, or as in your case you click on an object and it starts to move immeadiately. So preselection is the way to go, select the object, and than do whatever you want to do with that object. The flickering cursor is here too, but only after a few glasses of redwine. And it seems everything is motion blurred too cheers ingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 ahhh ok I know now what is the problem nisus.... here is the solution (I think hehe) I suggest u to use the mouse with max.. not the pen.. but if you like to use the pen. try to configure the pen without pressure sensibility for the max app only. disabling the asisted double click which is annoying for painting in photoshop maybe is needed to use max better... so... configure the pen individually for max and the rest of apps.... don't know... I use always the mouse.. only use pen to paint... regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 lol ingo... i guess you got vertical motion blur falling of your chair... right? Tnx heda, I'll try those settings rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 Hi nisus, now you know why i dont like keyboard shortcuts. When my head falls on the keyboard a lot of weird things are happening in the programs. cheers ingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 lol ingo & tnx hedacom. (it worked turning of the double click) rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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