[Bit of advice needed, Intuos 4 Medium or Bamboo Fun Medium]

Thanks everyone for your comments

I ordered the Intuos4 medium, it should be here tomorrow so looking forward to that.

Is there a preference to which nib you guys are using, I believe it comes with 5x std, 1x flex (I assume this is the spring one that artman is referring to?), 1x stroke and 3x felt nibs?

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Bit of advice needed, Intuos 4 Medium or Bamboo Fun Medium]

Thanks for all the great advice everyone, very helpful.

I had been edging towards the Intuos4 before I saw the bamboo fun (http://www.wacom-asia.com/bamboo/bamboofun/), one thing I wanted to make sure of was that I only buy one tablet which will hopefully meet my needs for a number of years which seems to be the case with the Intuos range, from looking here and the newtek forums. It seems most users have had them for several years and only upgrade when they wanted to and not usually because of failure.

The other worry I had with the Intuos4 was the nib wear, from what you are saying sounds like it is down more to users maybe pressing the pen to hard than a design fault (there is a big post on the Wacom EU forums about it).

Does 3D Coat make use of the tilt feature?

I think I will go and place an order for the Intuos4, in the meantime I will try and get some time with my brothers bamboo graphics tablet.

Thanks again for the advice

Andrew.

[Bit of advice needed, Intuos 4 Medium or Bamboo Fun Medium]

Hi Guys,

I am looking at buying my first graphics tablet and hoped someone can give me some advice on which one to buy.

My brother bought himself a Bamboo pen and touch 2nd edition the other day and I have never used a stylus before so gave it a go in 3D Coat and was really impressed so I started looking into buying one for myself.

I don't know if monitor size has anything to do with tablet size but I am using a 30" monitor.

I was leaning towards a medium Intuos4 but then took a look at the medium Bamboo Fun and now don't know which will meet my needs best, basically I will be using it for painting and some sculpting in 3D Coat and maybe drawing in a 2D package.

I know the Intuos4 has twice the pressure levels, better resolution, pen tilt, higher report rate, more options regarding nibs etc however over here it costs $410 AUD compared to $220 AUD for the Bamboo Fun Medium (the silver one).

Am I likely to make use of the extra features, especially in 3D Coat (sculpting and painting) or are they mainly gimics?

I also read that the Intuos4 goes through nibs quite fast, is this consistent for most users or is it down to personal use (eg. how hard you press down with the pen)?

I don't mind paying the extra for the Intuos4 if I am going to see a benefit within 3D Coat, for instance is the resolution much more useful on the Intuos4 (5080) compared to the Bamboo Fun (2540)?

Unfortunately I don't know of anywhere local I can go and compare the tablets.

Looking forward to any advice you can offer.

Thanks,

Andrew.

[My Bob Ross tribute sketch]

Nice work

Back in 2000 I had an operation and was off work for 12 weeks, I started watching Bob every morning on cable and was fascinated by how easy he made it all look. I remember one of the episodes he had a field mouse in his top pocket while he painted one scene.

He came across as such a nice guy.

[Voxel sculpting primer]

These are great, very easy to watch with a lot of information, I can't wait for the next one

[Voxel sculpting primer]

Thanks for doing these they are great

I watched the ear video and plan on watching the the second one later today, are you planning on do others because you have a very relaxed and easy to understand method of getting the information across?

[3D-Coat 3.0 ALPHA]

Do you have UAC enabled? Maybe if you Run As Administrator.

Hi Phil,

UAC is disabled and I tried Run As Admin.

I just tried build 60 (which is the last build I downloaded prior to build 62) and that installed fine no probs so for me it is just build 62 causing this issue.

[3D-Coat 3.0 ALPHA]

Anyone else getting this error when installing version 62?

I am using Vista 64 Ultimate and all previous versions have installed fine.

[3D-Coat 3.0 ALPHA]

Interface was not changed essentially, but it is important point to be done in V3. It is in to-do list.

Thanks Andrew, looking forward to the release.

Andrew.

[3D-Coat 3.0 ALPHA]

Hi Andrew,

I haven't been following the updates to version 3 as much as I would like but is the new interface that was talked about in the forums likely to make it into the release of version 3?

Sorry if this as been discussed but I couldn't see it.

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Navigation in different programs]

Hi Andrew,

I second Eric's reply about using LightWaves mode to move around, I especially like the zoom in lighwave because it keeps the area you initially click over in the center of the viewport.

Would it be possible to implement key bindings based on other 3D application or maybe allow users to customize keys and mouse clicks so they can enter what they prefer? Or maybe a combination of both, say have key bindings for the other major applications but also allow the user to configure them to make their own key bindings (e.g. Allow me to use lightwave key bindings but change them slightly), Modo has a similar system called Input Remapping where you can base your input on another applications key bindings.

Thanks,

Andrew.