Pres-sensitive software
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Thanks for the advice on the CalComp/Trifecta. This looks like the
way I should go. I should have asked you one other thing: What
software do you use, and does it respond to the pressure-sensitive
characteristics of the stylus? I am about to buy Brilliance 2.0,
but I'd change my mind if it doesn't recognize pressure signals,
whereas some other paint program does. Thanks again.
Regards Tom (via Whap!)
Thomas:
I cannot say about Brilliance because I do not use it. However it works
just peachy with DPaint 4.6 and Image FX 1.5, one can only assum that It
would work with Brilliance. The Software is Trimedia. If I said Trifecta I
must have been Dinking & and Driving on the Info supper Hiway. I hope the
Virtual C.H.P. isn't watching.
I digress, The whole package came with a cordless presure sensitve pen
and a corded mouse like device. the board is 12×12 and I love it. It plugs
into your serial port and has a three module software system. AutoPoint
Start, this gose in your WBStartup drawer of in your startup sequence. AP
exit, Kinda obvious… and APConfig, this is the cool part. First lest you
select between the mouse and the pen. but also selects the area of the
tablet that you wish to use. I you have a tiny little drawing that you
wish to trace you can tell the software that this is the whole area that
it suold read. so evan though the draing is 1×1 it will still fill the
whole screen …
Brad Hayes
Hayes Visual Communication
I missed the beginning of this thread- are we talking Wacom tabs here? I
just got an ArtPad- and it seems to work just fine with a Driver for Wacom
II-S I d/l'd here on CIS- It doesn't seem to like pressure sensitivity (I
only tried it in Dpaint- which doesn't support it, and TVPaintSr which I
thought did) In TVPaint, it doesn't work verically I think- Is the
Trimedia driver for ALL Wacoms (if indeed that's what we're talking
about)? Thanks- any help would be welcome.
Mike
Mike:
Actualy I was talking about the CalComp pad. But I think that it may
work with the Wacom because in the Image FX 1.5 manule it states, "you
will require a tablet driver (tablet.library) compatable with the
Tri-Media standared (e.g.:Wacom510c).
P.S. DPaint 4.61 dose support Presure sensitivity.
Brad Hayes
Hayes Visual Communication
Now I'm curious. I have a PicassoII board and TVpaint(SR), do any of
you gentlemen have any experience with pressure sensitive drawing tablets for
this arrangement?
Paul Fish
Brad:
Trimedia! Trimedia. I must get this correct. As they used to warn:
"Loose lips, sink ships!" I don't want to put someone out of business because
of my sloppy reading. 😎
Is DPaint 4.6 currently available, and will it load, edit and save in IFF24
format, albeit a HAM8 display.. in the manner of Brilliance 2.0? One of the
reasons I was interested in Brilliance is because I hoped to create "texture"
files that I could save in IFF24. The only reason for that is so that Caligari
Broadcast will be able to convert these images to the .6rn texture format.
Cali only recognizes Amiga 24 bit, .6rn, Targa and DCTV formats.
I am suspicious in that Brilliance apparently requires and provides two,
individual programs. One will do what I require and still allow viewing in
HAM8 on an AGA machine. I never saw a review re DPaint 4.6 Thanks.
Regards Tom (via Whap!)
Tom:
Yes and No… It is Trimedia. DPaint 4.6 is an upgrade Patch that comes
with the Trimedia software. If you have ADPro 2.5 you also have this patch
(actualy you have 4.61). You ofcorse need DPaint 4.5 to Patch it. The AGA
or 4.5 version will load 24 bit files, however it takes forever. The Ham8
is really very nice but also slow. It dose not save in 24bit.
If you have any of the Amiga Image procesors you can always loasd a
file into it then save it back out as 24bit…
Brad Hayes
Hayes Visual Communication