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[Rune Rask]

Hello Everyone!

So i love my Wacom tablets, and Wacom products in general, they are great!
i use them all the time, yay, all the love.

Remember when the 6D art pen came? i sure did, man i wanted that piece of
hardware, it just rocked!, so i got it, and guess what... it did actually somewhat
rock in Painter, not all good, but ok. Photoshop has terrible support for this
product, so lets fix that!

seen this vid yet?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3530183597432149114

its a guy pointing out some minor flaws in the wacom product line, and i was
like, hmm cry more man! :P But then i saw what he had done to the 6d art pen
Amazing! it actually behaves like i imagined before buying it! thats nuts.

So he made a DLL to interact with his software (TVP? dont know it)
and he had corrected the entire bahavior for the 6D art pen, making it
work, both with rotation of the chisel and with the contact factor of the
Pen Nib (see video for explanation).

Great you say? wheres that DLL. well, he jacked up and went like
"well, i don't get paid to fix this stuff, mumble mumble, new driver from
wacom mumble mumble" ... geeeez! ill pay a few bucks for a fix like that!

so guys.... anyone know the Wintab SDK? we should collab on a driver for
PS and Painter inspired by the results in the video.

Now i suck at coding, i looked at the SDK, and some of the example code
but most of it is for testing pen input to make the software you are
developing interact correctly with a Tablep/Pen.

I would love to help out, and perhaps if i study it just a tad more, i could
assist in the packet sending functionality across the system32... but it
would be great if someone with more understanding of the SDK could come
up with some base for what the DLL actually has to send/interact.

preferably the guy who did it, should go about at least discussing what he
went through...

anyways sorry for the wall of text,
what do you think of the video? it looks pretty interesting to me, at least
the 6D art pen fix.

Rune

[Jaycephus]

I'm certainly interested in an improved 6D Art pen usage within PS, but since rotation doesn't seem to come through at all into CS4 x32 or x64, at least on my Vista64 system, I don't really know whether such a DLL would help me. Plus, he did this with the DLL link to TVPaint, and I have no idea if the same thing could be done with CS3 or 4. Additionally, his gripe about the tilt interpolation error that he demonstrated in a Wacom test utility may be present only in the test utility, NOT the actual Wacom pen driver. I base this claim on the fact that in CS and CS4, using Intuos3 tablet and original pen, I can link tilt to angle, and it works without the errors he demonstrated. So either the error is in the utility's usage of the tablet driver, or CS and CS4 are already doing the filtering to overcome the error.