Is there anyone have the experience working with daz using touch screen monitor?

James

Is there anyone have the experience working with daz using touch screen?
I've been looking for ways to work more productive.

So I would like to ask anyone who has the exprience. Cos the cost of a touch screen montior is not cheap.

Gordig

I spent a year mostly working on a Surface Pro. C4D was great to work with. DS seems almost deliberately hostile to a touchscreen interface. If you have other uses for it, go right ahead, but definitely don't buy one specifically for DS, because the experience is horrible.

Korpin.Sulat

Though if you like to tweak meshes and surfaces, a drawing tablet with screen is a worthwhile purchase.

BlueFingers

I used a touch screen monitor for a few years but I really didn't like it.

First, from an ergonomic standpoint, working on a touch screen is simply less efficient than using a keyboard and mouse. The constant up-and-down motion of your hands is far more fatiguing than keeping them in the same horizontal plane while using a mouse and keyboard, where your arms can rest comfortably on the table.

Second, be prepared to clean your monitor a whole lot more often. Touchscreens tend to accumulate dirt and grime much quicker than traditional monitors, which can be incredibly annoying, especially when trying to work on tasks like post.

And third, the constant need to reach out and touch the screen inevitably obstructs your view of the content you're trying to interact with. This momentary occlusion of your line of sight can slow you down just a bit compared to using a mouse, where your "input" is always readily available.

Overall, I'm not a big fan of  touchscreen monitors, luckily mine had excellent image quality. These days I use a keyboard, drawing tablet, and a trackball (Logitech MX Ergo Wireless Trackball), which I've found to be the perfect combination for my workflow. I can't recommend working with a ergnomic trackball enough over a mouse, once you get used to it, it's less fatiguing than a regular mouse.

James

Thanks for the sharings guys. You save me.

paulawp (marahzen)

Separate of DS, I had a touchscreen all-in-one as a production computer years ago that otherwise adequately served its purpose over the reasonable life span that I expected of it, but I did get tired of the cats scheduling Outlook appointments by randomly brushing against the screen.

Gordig

BlueFingers said:

Overall, I'm not a big fan of  touchscreen monitors, luckily mine had excellent image quality. These days I use a keyboard, drawing tablet, and a trackball (Logitech MX Ergo Wireless Trackball), which I've found to be the perfect combination for my workflow. I can't recommend working with a ergnomic trackball enough over a mouse, once you get used to it, it's less fatiguing than a regular mouse.

I've used a trackball for decades, but can't stand the "ergonomic" ones because I find it much more comfortable to operate the trackball with fingers than with my thumb. I'm a big fan of the Elecom HUGE trackball. 

Gogger

You might look into a Stream Deck (web search it). Man, it has certainly been a game changer for me! Someone has even made a set of controls for DAZ Studio. (Search "stream deck" here in the store).

fixmypcmike

BlueFingers said:

First, from an ergonomic standpoint, working on a touch screen is simply less efficient than using a keyboard and mouse. The constant up-and-down motion of your hands is far more fatiguing than keeping them in the same horizontal plane while using a mouse and keyboard, where your arms can rest comfortably on the table.

THIS.  Touchscreen makes sense for a phone or even a tablet where your hands are in the same place as your visual focus, but for anything larger it's really not ergonomic.  Imagine what it would be like to have your keyboard hanging off the bottom of your monitor -- not a practical typing position. 

Roman_K2

Gordig said:

I've used a trackball for decades, but can't stand the "ergonomic" ones because I find it much more comfortable to operate the trackball with fingers than with my thumb. I'm a big fan of the Elecom HUGE trackball. 

! ! ! ! !

PMFJI, but that Elecom mouse looks very cool.

In the past I've had a Dell laptop with a... small but usable trackball, and going way back I think I had an Atari, wired trackball that felt like a billiards ball and was almost as big.

FANTASTIC!

I have started fiddling with a Wacom One. AC powered and uses an HDMI connection. Larger drawing area than many but you can of course zoom in. Non-glare screen is also a good idea in my opinion but I would like the scratchier, more tactile feel of the black matte surfaced Intuous models.

Btw in the picture it looks like they are running "Sketchbook". I have noticed Sketchbook going up and down during the past couple of years. Earlier this year they charged me a few bucks, on one of my tablets but not a subsequent one. And "Photoshop Sketch" vanished from the Play Store for a while. It now seems to be back, in the "Play Store".