Hi, I'd suggest contacting space navigator's creator, http://www.3dconnexion.com/, and ask about the different drivers. I too had many problems compiling and using their drivers on different platforms,
regarding the intuos, what exactly is missing in current blender implementation ? Shaul On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Matt Ebb <m...@mke3.net> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Mike Erwin <significant....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I found >> several posts over the years about the BF working with 3D Connexion on >> SpaceNavigator support, but also found some confusion about plugins >> and whether or not these devices work out of the box or need a special >> build. > > Hi, > > Spacenavigator support is in 2.49, you need to get a plugin to put in > a folder under your blender dir to make it work. Support in 2.49 was > ok, but quite limited due to the old events system. 2.5 is much better > in this regard, the new event system/keymaps have lots of exciting > possibilities to do some very cool things with the spacenavigator, but > it's just not implemented yet. > > I looked at doing this myself a little while ago on OS X, but got > stuck since blender is now using 64bit/cocoa on OS X, and I was having > trouble re-compiling the plugin to work on that system. Plugin aside > though, putting spacenavigator support back shouldn't be too > difficult, you just need to insert the events generated by it, similar > to how tablet events work, and then key maps and other code in Blender > can get those values. > > This would be really great to get back in 2.5, however it may be a > little small for a GSoC. Maybe if combined with something else it > might be better, i.e. some really good UI design/implementation about > how to integrate it throughout with Blender's tools and take it to the > next level? > > cheers > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers