Hi Everyone,
I’ve been searching this forum without luck, so I’m hoping someone can help me.
I’m trying to understand how to fade a stroke. The GOUGE brush does this but I do not understand (yet) how to make a brush fade like the gouge.
Any help would truly be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Eph
If what you mean by fade is what I think you mean, then you need a Wacom Tablet which has pressure sensitivity. It lets you press lighter or harder to give many different levels of control and sensitivity.
The GOUGE brush is able to reproduce this effect, so why can it not be applied to other brushes?
It does, but not really. Your never going to be able to percisely control the fade without a pressure sensitive tablet.
Seriously, get yourself a tablet and you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it. I have a 6x11 Wacom, which are of the utmost quality. But before that I had a really cheap one from AIPtek, you can get them for like $70 and under, hell, I’d even sell you my old one (12x9) that still works like new for super cheap. If you have the money though, get an Intuous 3 from Wacom. Either way, even if you go for a cheapo, it’s a thousand times better than working with a mouse when your using ZBrush or Photoshop, etc…
I can 100% guarantee you that your work will improve ten fold once you get a tablet.
Given my traditional drawing style, I’m not used to the disconnection between screen and tablet. However, I found a 17in touchscreen graphics tablet for 1k that should fix the issue.
Thanks again.
Eph
I’d still be interested in knowing how the gouge brush does it. It’s a useful effect to have even with a tablet, eg when you need evenly fading strokes that are hard to manage with hand pressure alone.
So anyone got any ideas on how to enable it for other brushes ?
#1. Learning how to use a tablet is as easy as learning how to use a mouse, you’ll have it mastered in a few days tops.
#2. If you have the money for a tablet/monitor either A. Go with Wacom’s line of Cintique monitors or B. Do a serious ammount of research before you buy a non-Wacom.
But anyways, I wish you the best of luck, you’ll never want to go back to a plain old mouse ever again. -Derek
I’m pretty sure the gouge brush behaves like that just because it uses ‘once z’ as its ‘picker’ instead of ‘cont z’. So it is restricted to only work within a certain range of z values from the point at which you first picked, so you can duplicate this with other brushes by using the ‘picker’ menu. However, I don’t find the gouge brush to fade out in a very useful way…!