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Subject: A question for all you modelers (input devices)

Wild77 opened this issue on Jul 19, 2005 · 9 posts
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Wild77 ( ) posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 6:58 AM · edited Wed, 29 January 2025 at 3:12 AM

I have been working with 3D programs for a few years now but have just started doing some modeling. I work a lot with my computers and am now having a lot of wrist strain as I use a mouse or track ball for everything. So my question is what type of input device are most of you using and how well will a tablet work for 3D modeling? Also Im using C4D as my modeling program at this point and will a tablet work with C4D? Thanks

laughingnome ( ) posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 4:33 PM

dunno bout C4D . i use a trackball myself. ive got a wacom intious 2 plugged in but dont use it much for modeling cheers stu

Jaqui ( ) posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 6:09 PM

I only use a basic wheel mouse. or a basic 3 button mouse. none of these fancy input devices at all.

AlarmedBread ( ) posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 10:47 PM

good old optical mouse... have wanted to get a usb keyboard and set that up for all my hot keys tho...

Gog ( ) posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 9:53 AM

For me the tablet gets used in painter/photoshop and a mouse for the modelling process.

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Dann-O ( ) posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 8:45 PM

I use a monkey a mouse is not intelligent enough. Now just a standard 3 button optical mouse. I was using a 3 button trackball but the middle button went bad and using Wings with no middle button is weak so I had to get a mouse.

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Wild77 ( ) posted Thu, 21 July 2005 at 6:17 AM

Thanks for all the info, it was good to get all this feedback. My poor wrists have see way to many hours of 3D work and even more hours of World of War Crack (Craft) as of late.

DustRider ( ) posted Thu, 21 July 2005 at 12:22 PM

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Have you looked into 3D controlers like the SpaceBall? It works well with C4D, and reduces a lot of the abuse on your mouse arm. The biggest drawback to 3D controlers is that not all 3D applications are supported. and most of the "low end" and specialized applications are not supported (i.e. Wings3D, Anim8tor, Silo, Hexagon, Amapi, TrueSpace, Vue Esprit, etc.).

All versions of C4D from 6 up have support for the spaceball and spacemouse.

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sailor_ed ( ) posted Wed, 27 July 2005 at 3:41 PM

I use a trackball and swear by it (Logitech). One single session playing a game though, will give me pain in my neck, shoulder and wrist for a week. :-(

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