3D device support

Posted on August 6, 2007 Category: Blender News

By: Ton Roosendaal

Thanks to the support of 3DConnexion, Blender now has support for 3d input devices, such as the SpaceNavigator.

The first testing builds with preliminary 3d device support, and the necessary drivers can be downloaded here:

www.blenderbuilds.com

What works now is:

- In 3D view, turntable and fly mode

- Transform in object mode and in edit mode

You change mode by pushing button 1. Button 2 allows dominant mode. The current mode is shown in 3Dview header.

A big thanks to 3DConnexion, for making available 16 of their cool SpaceNavigator devices to the core developers of Blender!

Credits for coordinating the Blender coding efforts go to Jean-Luc Peuriere.