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Wacom Intuos 3 issues.

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#1

Ever since I started work here at Sony, I have had issues with the Wacom Intous 3 tablet. What it’s doing is creating a popping whenever I put start to sculpt. So basically it creates a full on stroke, making a circle right before I start sculpting. I’ve tried everything to fix it, different Wacom drivers, different Wacom pressure settings for the pen, but none of them have fixed the problem. What really makes it weird, is it doesn’t do that all the time. So it will be fine for a few strokes, then I’ll have to stop and undo a stroke to fix the circle bump. Weird.

Does anyone else have this issue with the Wacom Intous 3? It’s the 9 X 12 size Intous tablet.

And just to clarify if it’s a driver issue or not, I also tested my Intous 2 from home on my work machine. No issues at all.

Thanks for any help.

You can see the circle at the start of the bottom stroke.

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#2

Once in a great while that happens to me with my graphire 3…it also likes to stick when using ctrl to move buttons around which drives me nuts.

usually if I adjust my mouse avg in zbrush the circle thing goes away for that session though. Perhaps it will work for you? Tho I imagine you tried that too.

#3

I usually have the mouse average setting set to 3 or 4. I’ll try adjusting it to different settings tomorrow to see if that helps or not.

Thanks for the help. :smiley:

#4

I see this problem, too, using an Intuos 3 6x8 (PTZ-630).

It definitely sucks.

A light tap of the tip will often result in a very large brush dab – larger than expected for the amount of pressure on it. You would expect it to be a small dab but it ends up near the maximum value.

Maybe something in the driver?

Here’s a couple crazy things to try… (at your own risk :wink:

  1. Try a new tip, or remove the tip from the pen and put it in backwards.

If the pen is old and abused the sensor can seem to go bad. (How many times have you seen people crush the tip of a wacom pen? :wink: I haven’t disassembled one but I get the feeling there’s a pressure

  1. adjust the AlphaAdjust for the brush… make it a parabolic curve by creating and moving the adjustment point down to the right.

These may or may not help… it seems to sometimes help, but then the problem eventually shows up again.

Hopefully this problem will be taken seriously…

thanks,
Joe

#5

I don’t think it’s the driver, as the same driver works fine with my Intuos 2. It’s a brand new pen, so I don’t think it’s bad either. I tried out a coworkers pen just to see if it was mine or not, and his did the same thing.

Hopefully there is a solution. Other than just using my Intous 2 tablet. :smiley:

#6

i got the same problem whith my intous3. please tell me if u find a way to get rid of this :cry: i have no idea what to do, i’ve tried lots of things nothin works…

#7

I installed the spring tip in my pen. I thought it would make a difference, but it didn’t really. But so far I haven’t figured out how to cure the “pop”.

#8

This looks like a Wacom problem but you might try the adjustments in the Preferences>Tablet subpalette, specifically Tablet Size and Tablet Intensity. I don’t have the problem (Intuos 2) so can’t test it but pushing both sliders to their maximum may help.

EDIT: If you find settings that help be sure to save your configuration to preserve the changes: SHIFT+Ctrl+I.

#9

I tried adjusting the tablet sliders like you suggested, and it still pops. I was able to get it to where the pop wasn’t that noticeable, I think, but you can still see it pop while you’re sculpting.

#10

Bumping just in case.

I’m still getting the popping issues. Sigh.

#11

same here… a slight touch and boom! – the brush pops and the stroke is super-large.

this does not happen in Photoshop or any other application we use…

what do we need to do to get this fixed?

#12

Pray? hehe

Seriously though, I’m sure they’re aware of the issue. I’m also pretty sure its not high up on their list of priorities right now. :smiley:

I’m hoping it will be addressed with the release of 2.5.

#13

ok guys,

try this. before you start sculpting with your wacom pen, tap the screen in another window using your pen. Then alt+tab back to zbrush’s interface and it should be ok. Stops the poppin’ fer me.

Regards,

Mark SOon

#14

I tried that, and still no dice. Thanks for the tip though. :smiley:

#15

Ok, I’m also having this problem.
I think it has to do with zbrush mainly.
But I think we should let both wacom and zbrush know just how bad we want their products to work together perfectly.
And the only way to do that is to email them directly:

http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/region.cfm
http://pixologic.com/support/techquery.html

Send a short message to them both describing what your problem is and that you want perfect compatibility between zbrush and wacom tablets.

A company won’t make a change to their product unless you ask…

#16

BTW are you all running the latest drivers released 31 october 2005?

#17

Using latest driver doesn’t help. The issue doesn’t occur in any other software so it seems to be a Zbrush bug…

#18

The fact that my Intuos 2 works fine using the same drivers leads me to believe it’s one of two issues. One, being Zbrush wasn’t designed for utilizing the Intous 3, or two, the Intous 3 has changed enough from Intous 2 that it requires different settings for programers to utilize. More than likely it’s a little of both. But we won’t know until we get a response to the issue.

Like I said before, I’m hoping it’s fixed in Z2.5.

#19

Yeah… Wacom has probably changed something in the pressure data that gives a conflict with the somewhat older Zbrush programming. It seems to have something to do with the pressure the tablet needs to recongize a click.

If you go to your tablet settings and in there go to Grip Pen and click in the details button. In there, pull the first slider to the left (not all the way… makes it impossible to work with) and the second to the right. The second one seems to be the one that has most impact. At least in my opinion I get fewer issues after this adjustment. (I’ve got the Swedish tablet settings dialog, the layout might be different in English… Could anyone check this?)

You can change these settings so that they just affect Zbrush.

#20

I had this problem with the 4.91-2 drivers on my 9x12 Intuos3, but the 4.87-2_32 drivers work fine. No odd ‘blobs’ of full pressure when lightly drawing.

I haven’t tried the 4.93-3 drivers yet to see if they have the same issue.