Anyone using the Wacom Express Keys and Touch Dial. After all these years thought I would try and incorporate them. seems mad not to! So far the zoom in and out seems very basic and big steps but the express keys work really well.
I used them extensively back in my Photoshop days. They’re really handy if you keep the Wacom in front of your keyboard to put modifier keys on them for brush strokes, clone, etc. The dial is good for zooming.
But with Flame I keep my keyboard front, and Wacom to the side, makes it awkward to reach for them with the left hand.
You can use the express buttons for something - like toggle AutoKey, undo, etc. that could be useufl. In my case I have those programmed on my Tangent panel, where my left hand is already.
But if I had find a use case for Flame, that’s what I would be looking for. In fact my Bt3 panel on my Tangent has a few buttons that are always accessible in all modes:
Prev/Next Keyframe, Add/Del Key, Toggle Auto Key, Sel 1-4, GMask Invert. Some of these things that you need all the time but take you out of your flow or you have to aim rather than muscle memory would be good uses for the express keys. Pick the 8 most important ones.
And for the dial - zoom is most obvious (instead of space+shift), also brush size for paint. You can have up to 4 dial functions, which you toggle with the button in the center of the dial.
thanks for this. I have my keyboard on top of the Wacom. so it’s pretty handy.
I tried once, but I was always inadvertently pressing buttons.
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I took my Wacom apart and disconnected the ribbon cable for the buttons/wheel.
Never looked back.
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haha - I just spent a day with it and turned it off!
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