Forum: Carrara


Subject: Graphic Tablets

navinrhode opened this issue on Feb 19, 2003 ยท 8 posts


bijouchat posted Wed, 26 February 2003 at 12:51 AM

mine's not a trackball, its an optical mouse :) Its very exact, no moving parts (that means no ball whatsoever, it tracks using an LCD light), and I won't go back to a regular mouse anymore after having one. I had an optical trackball once, problem with them is that it still got a moving part, a ball. The optical mouse is much nicer, nothing to collect dirt, nothing whatsoever to clean. Actually, having a puck on a high end tablet is probably most accurate to use, but that's not an option with a low end tablet. They come with a mouse, but the mouse to my tablets I find are not nearly as accurate as the optical mouse I use. If one is looking for the most accurate thing for the lowest price, go for an optical mouse with no moving parts. The MS optical Intellimouse is a nice one, so are the ones from Logitech. I have both Logitech and MS optical mice on different computers and both work great. I just don't find using a pen very useful in a modeling program, nor even in a 2d bezier program such as Freehand or Flash, nor even in Photoshop when I'm using bezier paths. I'm more comfy with a mouse in those situations. :) I have that problem with clicking accurately with the pen in all those programs.