Has anyone ever tried to make and use a hardware parameter dial to work with Poser? I mean a real thumbwheel that you can spin and so set the parameter value of the selected dial? Reason I ask this is that I moved to using a pen tablet in lieu of a mouse. Tablet with mouse uses USB, but my old mouse is still at the PS2 port. Both work in conjunction, the tablet taking precedence when the pen is in detection range. Once you get used to it, most of the operations in Poser are a breeze with a pen, but spinning the dials remains difficult, so I find myself often falling back on the mouse for that or just typing numbers directly. So I wonder: Are there suitable devices on the market, or is it possible to scavenge an old (mechanical) mouse to make a dedicated dial control that I can I can spin with my free hand? Anyone ever done this? Experiences? Suggestions? B.

Have you tried just typing in the numbers manually? Many times I find turning the dials just too "sluggish", so I end up clicking on the number area and typing in a value.

I renember there once was a Plug-in for C4D.An Audio mixer that was plugt into the Midi Port of your soundcard.

Such support would require a hardware interface. As far as I know, the dials are targeted to specific interfaces (keyboard/mouse) in the regular sense. It may be possible with Python, but it would more than likely require an entirely new set of dials replacing the originals or masquerading as the originals for something like thumbwheel support. I agree with Acadia on this one. Unless I'm doing general posing or transformations (without any need for precision), I use the numeric entry. Same for Cinema 4D. :)

Python could certainly tie the mouse wheel or a joystick-type thing to a parameter, but I'm not at all sure it would be more convenient than the usual way. Problem is that there's no concept of "Currently Selected Parameter". With lights, cameras, figures, and body parts, Poser has a specific way to select one, and the selection holds. There's no internal way to do that with parameters. So the Python would either have to use its own listbox of parameters, or it would have to detect when you've changed the real dial. Either way would (I think) be less convenient than the usual, because you'd end up using both the regular mouse and the dedicated device. With a joystick, I can imagine a really quick way of operating: the stick's Y slides across the list of parameters, and the X adjusts the selected parm. This could also work with a dedicated separate mouse, I suppose.....