Sijun Forums :: View topic - using wacom intuos mouse and pen together

PandaPops · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 11:16 pm

i saw this video dual hands on 3d program maya and was wondering if anyone knows how to setup the mouse and pen to work together on a wacom intuos ?
i mean for any program not just maya

Demon Prince · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 12:50 am

Check out DualTrack in your Tablet's help menu. I was gonna try this on Photoshop but since you can only use the mouse for its buttons and the pen to control the curser, I thought it was a waste of space. It's really only good if your working with 3D packages.

Catfish · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 1:30 am

/runs to his tablet menu to check it out.

awwww. Sadly, it doesn't look like the graphire supports it. Of course, you'd have a mighty difficult time squeezing the mouse & the pen on there at the same time

Frog · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 4:51 am

The example in the video doesn't look all that useful, the guy is using artisan to sculpt which not many people use as it just isn't as good as normal NURBS or poly/subd modelling.

The one application where DualTrack would be really useful would be painting on 3d models in an app like Deep Paint 3d. According to the Wacom site Deep Paint fully supports DualTrack meaning that you could paint with the pen in one hand while rotating the model with the mouse in the other, just like in that video. You need the 4d mouse though, which I don't have. The 2d mouse won't work.