Hello, I have been using Poser 5 to do some early sculpture posing. Multiple charactors in a single scene. I am thinking of buying a graphic tablet and could use some advice. Does Poser utilize a Wacom Graphire3 4x5 tablet & pen? Mostly interested in fine adjusments of limbs, fingers. I wont be doing much painting as I am doing toy prototypes that will be sold in a monotone kit to be assembled and painted by the kit buyers. So I thought the Intous3 models would be over kill. I use the dials a lot, but would like better hands on control. Also if there is a better tablet than Wacoms for use with Poser PSP8 etc, please feel free to mention it.

Actually, it's pretty hard to use Poser with a tablet - at least my old Wacom UltraPad.

the pen, in my experience, actually makes posing harder. Your best bet is to go with a rollerball mouse (again, in my experience). You can move the ball slightly, and have a bit better control with the ball than with the regular mouse.

Interesting idea. I am posting in a few forums and appreciate all the help. A rollorball mouse can be bought locally and returned if I don't like it. Thanks for this idea.

no problem :D. I'm going to assume by your s/n that you're in tacoma, wa :D, and, if you look hard enough, you may find a reseller that deals Wacom products. I mean, I would assume so...I live in Canada, so things may be slightly different. Here, I can buy them at Best Buy or FutureShop (for a bit more than direct from Wacom, but at least I can take it right back). Good luck! ..shadow..

While I was at the Tacoma Mall this afternoon I snagged a Wacom Graphire3 as well as a Logitech Marble Mouse and a Logitech Trackman Wheel mouse. These were suggested on another forum as well. So I will have all three to try this weekend, (4 if we count the mouse that came with the G3) or even over the next couple weeks. When paying cash the return policies at CompUsa are quite liberal. If I learn anything interesting from all this I will be sure to post it here. Again thanks for the idea.

I just bought the exact Wacom tablet, and although I bought it mainly for painting/ZBrush modeling, I did give Poser a spin with it. It was actually rather fun, though I don't see it becoming my regular way of posing (I usually use the dials). I haven't tried the mouse that was included, I just use my regular mouse. 4x5 isn't near enough space for using a mouse.

I tried all four devices this weekend in various combinations. For detail work on textures and such in Photoshop the Wacom G III was elegant in its opperation. Amazingly natural tool.

For Poser though I found the MX 510 gaming mouse was the most efficient for my use as my hands shake as a side effect of taking a lot of prescription medication. I found the speed and accuracy of the MX 510 in accessing the dials quickly is an emmense help, indeed a relief.

The track ball mice although dexterious in dual axis adjustments wasn't speedy enough in innitially sellecting the dials and joints I wished to adjust. Again my shaky hands played a big part in this.

In PhotoShop the Wacom is excellent and I like the small work surface as I can access the whole desktop in pen mode very accuratly. Zooming in deep I can elleviate my disability with the tremers. And the sesitivity adjustments are wonderful for subtle transitions once I got the hang of all its adjustments. As for the mouse provided with the G3; it is quite servicable but it pales in comparison to the fluid performace of the Logitech MX510.

I appreciate everyones help here and on other forums. It made this process much easier, and less stressful. Now I have some fun tools/toys to play with.

Message edited on: 12/06/2004 03:02

:D That's great to hear!! Have fun!! ..shadow..

I've used a tablet ONLY for several years now with nary a problem, not to mention ease of use, which I guess comes with long term -- er, use, LOL! ProPack, Vue4, Imagine, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, etc., etc. One of the few problems I incurred was in anim8r, when I had to use the mouse to get certain functions to work! Otherwise, fun fun fun! Larry F