Wacom recently introduced an optional pen designed specifically for 3D programs. On the other hand, the more ergonomic position and programmable buttons could more than make up for it. Pressure sensitivity is also ignored in those programs, neglecting one of the tablet's main features. In the architectural and engineering fields, there's a split: some users love it, some hate it, mostly because the mouse scroll wheel is very handy for zooming on CAD programs and Wacom tablets have that feature on the tablet surface, requiring putting the pen aside to use it.
Think about controlling a first person shooter with a pen. Most games don't work very well with pen input, as their interfaces were originally designed for mouse control. There are a few areas in which even the best drawing tablets are not the ideal input devices. More importantly, it also allows for more natural input in activities such as drawing and photo retouching.Īreas in which drawing tablets don't work so well Your hand can travel from point to point on the screen in a single movement instead of repeated slides, as with a conventional mouse or trackpad. Most important of all, working with a drawing tablet is faster and more efficient than with a mouse. There are buttons on the pen that can be programmed for right click or other commands. Touching the tip of the pen on the tablet surface is the equivalent of a click, while pressure and pen tilt can be used to vary stroke width, opacity, effect intensity, and other attributes.
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Most professional programs on those fields offer advanced pen support and can recognize and use pen pressure and even tilt, on more feature-rich models like the Wacom Intuos Pro lineup. Since I have not been able to find much on this type of manipulation in the archives I thought it might be worth getting the process out for these newbies.and maybe some oldbies like me who might have forgotten.Ĭlearly of course the same technique can be applied to networks and I have used it very successfully with the preparation of family trees.Drawing tablets can be used for most creative and content production needs such as illustration, photography, 3D modeling, animation, graphic design, etc. :-)Īn advantage which these manipulations have over conventional stick figures is that it is very easy to take foreshortening into account. The chair sequence is an apology to handrawn. The stick figures are very rapid manipulations of the red figure, while the last few are manipulations of the red hexagon. However, what can be done is powerful and I've put some other grabs up to show some of the possibilities. Unfortunately as far as I can see it is still not possible in Xara to rotate a group of nodes yet so limb rotation is not here yet. The head can be round or triangular but I have found the simpler the better. It is very fast to rearrange limbs and obviously the stick figure can be as complex as you like. Use Shift and Drag when multi-point (>2 lines) joints are being moved. Snapping enables you to get the "three-point joints" accurate. The body is a two point line snapped to the middle of the arm sequence and the middle of the leg sequence. The foot-groin-foot sequence is a second multi-point line. The hand-shoulder-hand sequence is one multi-point line with the Pen tool. I make the stick figure at say 4 pixel line thickness with round joins and caps. When "soft groups" came in that I revisited the situation and find that now it is a very easy process. My aim has always been to do it fast and furious within Xara and while I could do it with early Xaras it was a bit slow and clunky. Besides, the hassle of going back and forth between these programs and Xara is a pain. Stykz, Pivot Stickfigures, Stickman and Elemento work but these seem geared to animation and I'm not interested in that. I went through the Anime studio etc programs and a host of stick type programs. Everything is done in Xara but I always found it a pain to manipulate the figure because the bits tended to fly apart. The second shows the section with the stick person in it.
The first shows a map with a couple of cross sections and some photos. The attached grabs show the context in which I use them. I find it useful to put a stick person into a cross section map to illustrate a particular point or profile. Your request reminds me more of stick figures and my early attempts at using Xara to do stick figures to illustrate my cave maps. This talk of bones and rigging and animation seems to me to be maybe a bit more than you are after.
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