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how do you scale down a tablets active area?

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#1

heres the problem i got a large intous 4 for digital painting and i was wondering, how do i set the active tablet area …

what do i need to type in the coordinates boxes under tablet mapping for my intous4 large http://www.wacom.com/intuos/large.php to get my active tablet area to function as my old intous3 6x8 inches …so that i can map my tablets active area specifically for zbrush4 ? because i originally got the large size for drawing and digital painting and dual display capability… and i don’t really seem to understand pixel to inches conversion ratio to scale the active area down proportionally to a size more usable and manageable…

im not sure what to put in as far as coordinates goes so that its active tablet area functions as my old intous3 6x8.. any help some one here can give would be greatly appreciated?.. because i would hate to have to buy another intous4 tablet just for zbrush alone.. how do some in the zbrush community have there tablet setup for use in zbrush?
#2

Hi!
I Hope I can help ya’. It should be as simple as its in the Tablet properties, as in the driver you download.
You know in the “calibrate” “pen” “active area” “MAPPING” part of it. (?!)

Under the Mapping -> “Portion” here you can manually set it. The Wacom driver should automatically “see” the ration. Mine does.

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#3

Intuos4 width = 12.8"
Intuos3 width = 8.0"

Percentage difference of width = (8/12.8)*100 = 62.5%
The Intuos3 width is 100% - 62.5% = 37.5% narrower than Intuos4

Intuos4 height = 8.0"
Intuos3 height = 6.0"

Percentage difference of height = (6/8)*100 = 75.0%
The Intuos3 height is 100% - 75.0% = 25.0% lower than Intuos4

So,

First, make sure that Tablet Area is set to Full then:

The coordinate in the left box will be the coordinate in the right box times 37.5%

The coordinate in the top box will be the coordinate in the bottom box times 25.0%

As the boxes won’t allow decimals, then you can only be accurate to the nearest whole number.