spaceball help

Is there anyone using spaceball or a 3d controller? I would love to try out my space navigator with blender. I didnt shell out 60$ for nothing… I have been trying to get the patch to work. I really dont understand how to use it. Is there a way to clean my blender build of it? I cant even build. I have tried patch -p0 -R < spaceball.txt but it doesnt seem to let me do a regular build after.

Very lost and would love to get this to work.

A space ball?

I just got the Space Navigator its a 3d controller
http://www.3dconnexion.com/

Working with this build.
http://lecocqguillaume.chez-alice.fr/www/temp/blender_ndof_test.zip

I’m no blender expert (in the developer area), but does blender have any support for this?

yeah its working!

Glad to hear. Let me us know how things go. It could be another cool addtion to blender, the best 3D program currently available (Even against 3DSMax!)

anyway to get that patch???

like to dl it?

since i want to try making my own patched files for upcoming releases.

the space navigator is way awesome! and blender definitly leaves teh compition in the dust, lol

but yeah

any ideas how i could get the patch?

(not the patched blender exe)

thanks::slight_smile:

I think that its in the patch tracker. I am wanting to build it too… Its a difficult one though

Until Blender includes a driver without having to custom compile, I am going to use the RBC9 keyboard/mouse/joystick binding driver so I can use a Space Navigator. Search 3dConnexion forum for RBC9. I’ll post my bindings when I figure them out.