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#1

Hello i am new in this forum, i want to question if Zbrush can use any brand of Tablets or there is compatibility problems with some brands.

i saw that the people use Wacom Intuos, but, i can´t afford this kind of professional tables. Zbrush will run well with a cheap Table (and small) like a Wacom “Bamboo pen & touch”? http://www.wacom.eu/index2.asp?pid=294&lang=en&spid=1

or others like this Woxter http://www.appinformatica.com/tabletas-digitales-woxter-slim-tablet-rp106-windows-mac.php

or this Trust http://www.appinformatica.com/tabletas-digitales-trust-8x6-sketch-tablet.php

if i use a 4:3 proportion Table, this will run well using a 16:9 monitor?

i don´t know nothing about how the tablets works, and i hope that you can guide me in the right way… :slight_smile:

thanks in advance.

Sorry by my english, i come from Spain.

#2

wacom bamboo tablets work very well. I have a pen and touch that I keep in my bag with my laptop and it works great.

I can’t say about the other brands you mentioned though.

#3

other tablets should work for zbrush if they “work” on the computer. As long as they are sending the pressure sensitivity information to the computer Zbrush should pick it up.

You can use a 4:3 tablet on a 16:9 monitor. either the movement won’t move 1:1, meaning if you move your hand in a circle on screan it would be a tall oval (slightly). Or, the tablet would have settings to ignore a strip on the top/bottom of the tablet, and leave only a 16:9 portion active. All that is up to the divers of whatever tablet you get.

I started on an old Wacom Graphire 3, the equivalent to the modern Bamboo, used it for 4-5 years and it worked great.

If you look into another brand, make sure to do research and read reviews. Wacom has such a name that anything else I’m suspicious of unfortunately.

#4

thanks you for answer.

i will go for a 16:9 table then…

for sculpt works is better a bigger table? i read that a table don´t work like a mouse where the movement is “additive”, you move the mouse and when you don´t have space in your desktop you pick up the mouse, position in the other side of your desktop and continues moving in the same direction again. the Table size is the full size of your monitor, and if you position the pen in the upper left corner, the pointer in the screen positions in the same zone.

can a table work like a mouse (additive movement)?

about the resolution of a Table, i saw that the Bamboo have 2540 dpi, then if you get a bigger table, and if the size of the table is the equivalent of the size of the monitor, there is a big waste of the Table resolution? it is?

#5

you can make a tablet work like a mouse. But that kind of defeats the purpose…but I do know some people that work that way.

A bigger tablet doesn’t mean it is better. It all depends on how you work. If you like big broad strokes then you’ll want a bigger tablet. If you work with small strokes then a smaller tablet is fine. The resolution of the tablet isn’t important. The pressure sensitivity is where it’s all at. The higher you get the better usually. But anything 1024 or higher is great. I notice the lack of sensitivity with a 512 version though.

#6

ok, thanks you.