Using a 3D mouse for the construction

[Kosmie]

Hi simmers !

I work in a company which has created a 3D mouse designed for graphic designers and 3D designers. I find the format suitable for video games and I would like to know your opinion on the subject.

Our mouse is called "Lexip 3D", it has a joystick and a tilt allowing movements in 3 dimensions on 6 axes. Companies like Dassault Systems have had the opportunity to work with.

Today, we don‘t sell this product anymore but we are working on a new basis for our professional target. On my side, I would like to present some mouse’s configurations on video games to my superiors to propose the development of a Lexip gaming mouse. I had the opportunity to do some tests on the Sims 4 : http://www.ark-innovation.com/img/gifs/Sims4.gif

Here is the list of the buttons and X, Y, Z axis :
- Left and right clics
- 2 side buttons
- Joystick button (you press the joy)
- Analog joystick 360° : config on 4 directions
- Analog tilt 360° : config on 4 directions
- Translation up, down, left, right
- Scroll wheel up, down
- Scroll wheel button
- Lexip button (under the scroll wheel)
- Scroll wheel sensitivity
- Mouse sensitivity
- DPI (01 to 5040)

You can set up all these buttons with the Control Panel. You can do what you want (keyboard keys, shortcuts, macros…).

As regular players, what do you think of our mouse?
Would it be interesting?
Do you have any configuration ideas?

I look forward to talk with you :)

[cruinne]

I have a 3D mouse, but I never use it for gaming, as most games simply don't support it and cannot make use of the 3D functionality. They seem to look for traditional mouse inputs only, and often don't work with other inputs and they ignore whatever customization it has in the control panel.

My "regular" mouse is a Logitech marble mouse (like this[assets.logitech.com]) with programmable buttons, and even then, games frequently need me to plug in yet another mouse because they expect a scroll-wheel and it doesn't have one. Some years ago, it supported holding down left- and right-click simultaneously to produce a scroll-wheel function, but the support for that suddenly and mysteriously ceased, and has never come back.

And finally, I would be extremely hesitant to buy an expensive 3D mouse for gaming because, in my experience, these products often have very short support cycles, then get discontinued while the company either disappears or moves on to a new product.

[Kosmie]

Hi thanks for your answer !

My mouse has a control panel which allows you to set up the controls as you want on everything you want. When I tried it with the Sims 4, I used some shortcuts with the mouse (ctrl + 9, ctrl + 0, alt) but I could do something different.

Actually, it's just a project, so there is no price yet.