Which option defines the brush pressure sensitiviness?

[cinematik]

Yes my pen has pressure sensitivity. And yes the tip is slightly springy!

At least from screnshots your pen produces the same behaviour - even small stepping in the ends of the brushstrokes (but it appears when I reduced tablet's pressure sensitivity to min value).

if you save an oil brush preset with one set of settings, and another oil brush preset with a different set of settings - i.e. a pressure-responsive and non-pressure responsive brush - artrage will remember those settings.

Oh, that explains a lot, thanks. But I noticed that's true if my tablet driver magic option `support TabletPC` enabled (it enabled by default). But if this option is off, the AR does not reproduce pressure sensitivity despite the stylus settings you specified.

there's a wacom-specific pen tapering issue, the shoelace stroke, which is particularly bad with some optional wacom pens

Yeah, probably the pen I use has the same issue, although it's Huion pen.

but artrage does not exhibit this problem for me. other apps often do.

Which pen do you use? It would be interesting if you post AR screenshot with your oil brush strokes with pressure-responsive option on.

[nekomata]

hi cinematik,

sorry for a late reply, my week was a bit hectic here.

Oh, that explains a lot, thanks. But I noticed that's true if my tablet driver magic option `support TabletPC` enabled (it enabled by default). But if this option is off, the AR does not reproduce pressure sensitivity despite the stylus settings you specified.

there're some recommendations for windows users in regards to setting up pen tablets provided here; I can't comment on specific tabletpc/wintab settings, because they're proprietary windows technology and don't exist on mac.

Which pen do you use? It would be interesting if you post AR screenshot with your oil brush strokes with pressure-responsive option on.

I have a very old, discontinued intuos pro pen tablet (2048 levels of pen pressure + 60º tilt) with a basic plastic nib (I don't like how spring nib feels like because it's very sensitive on low pressure, and it's almost impossible to hit over 80 % true pressure with it)

I've attached what my strokes look like when I'm painting carefully, trying to get the full pressure range:



and how I paint with oil tool (I tend to lay paint heavily and scumble after):



one thing I've noticed, since I don't use rectangle brush regularly - I prefer the paint roller tool for flat brush stroke application - is that is does behave differently from a round/oval oil brush tool in terms of pressure. oil brush in artrage is developed exponentially (first there was a very basic oil brush as I remember it with artrage app that was bundled with one of my pen tablets; later a square brush option got introduced, and more other tweaks such as rotation and paint depth also became available)

I guess there's some disconnect between what you expect from this brush VS how it actually behaves, but for my purposes, as a way to provide quick and vivid underpainting with a textured oil paint look - it works very well.

[cinematik]

there're some recommendations for windows users in regards to setting up pen tablets provided

Usefull link for those who are with windows. For my tablet I found also that using `support TabletPC` without `wintab` enabled leads to some interface problem, but `wintab` itself allows not to use `support TabletPC` to achive that pressure-responsive behaviour. Also disabling both `wintab` and`realtyme stylus` makes brushstrokes a noticable slow. There may be other issues, who knows. So these options are really can be tricky.