Comments on: Maide Control: control Maya or 3ds Max via your iPad http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/12/maide-control-control-max-or-maya-via-your-ipad/ Community for Entertainment Artists Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Oleg http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/12/maide-control-control-max-or-maya-via-your-ipad/#comment-19198 Oleg Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:59:01 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=30496#comment-19198 Thanks for the short review Tom, keep an eye on our blog for developments. Have you seen the video of the iPhone app? http://blog.maideinc.com/iphoneipod-touch-multi-touch-cad-remote

- Oleg.

]]> By: Tom http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/12/maide-control-control-max-or-maya-via-your-ipad/#comment-19129 Tom Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:17:49 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=30496#comment-19129 Mini Review:
This app should be marketed as a general purpose mouse/touchpad and keyboard replacement that happens to have some 3D navigation tools also. In the first day playing with it I find it useful for zipping around on the Windows desktop, in OpenOffice and for playing EVE (just warping a squad to stargate, jumping, choosing the next jump, docking was pretty easy – all of those are right click menu commands). It takes a little thinking to get used to the application’s double tap+drag = LMB+drag equivalence, but we’re talking only minutes of discomfort before it feels fine.

In 3ds Max, at first I found the application specific controls didn’t register … but today that seems not a problem. So I tried out the panning tool and the three finger orbit, and that is okay. I’m not yet sure if habit will make this more pleasant with time, given I’ve accustomised over decades to regular ways of navigating, but it isn’t hard to control at least. I’d imagine this app might sit nicely alongside iDevCam for those controlling camera animation with the ipad.

For the radial menu, which is a three finger tap (with fingers close together not spread apart) , you’re then faced with four categories of commands, and then only four commands that are provided (none are user set), meaning you have to tap, swipe-hold, and then release to do any command. This takes that little bit longer than right clicking, moving the cursor and clicking in the quad menu … which also offers far more than Maide’s 16 commands and you can user set the quad menu however you want. I forum requested Maide to add user programmable commands for future releases; with an entire iPad screen filled with commands, it’d be much nicer.

A highly convenient feature of the app is automatic re-connection from PC to iPad.

]]> By: Tom http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/12/maide-control-control-max-or-maya-via-your-ipad/#comment-19086 Tom Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:50:57 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=30496#comment-19086 LOL – so the ipad on wifi is a better control for the computer with the 3D application running right in front of you than the computer ? Well, possibly … the number of times I’ve banged my mouse for not tracking nice or for hitting the end of its cord or for just getting dirty is alarming. This could be nice in ZBrush, which really has an environment where touch-y controls could be helpful, or UDK. The Maide app looks like it needs a fair amount of practise though … and if you are working also at the same time with a wacom or cintiq then it’s going to take quite some getting used to. Still, at least the price is not high … the best part is if I can’t get it to work as cool as in the video, I won’t mind.

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