![]() Despite your previous issues, the Wacom Bamboo fits this description. For the most part, it sounds like you need a very inexpensive tablet, with minimal features. So what you're stuck with is which Wacom/Huion you want to buy. One of their competitors is called Huion ( ), and I'm sure someone may come along to mention another, but really that's it. Wacom is the most popular and widely recognized brand of drawing tablet available and there are very few serious competitors. Within the drivers (that will come with ALL touch tablets) you are able to modify the behaviors of your tablet, and can de-activate and modify the feature you describe.įinal Thought At the end of the day, all this talk really doesn't have much effect on what brand of touch tablet you will buy, because there really is only a few choices on the market. The issue you had previously with a Wacom Bamboo sounds like a bit of inexperience with setup. You will find uses for it far beyond your original expectations. While I understand you're working within the pixel space, and so you may not find it immediately useful, it is the ability of these sophisticated devices to do so. Pressure Sensitivity is one of the most powerful features of modern touch tablets, and saying that you don't need it is a tad troublesome. Let me start with the bolded text, because it pops out a bit as a red flag. ![]() Most likely you'll have to adapt a bit to the way these new technologies work. You won't find that modern tablets have very much in common with the way your old Atari tablet worked, you'll have to try a few out in the store to find the one that fits your style. These qualities are almost always derived from the price tag of your drawing tablet. This means that you really shouldn't limit yourself to only mouse-emulating devices. I can say with confidence that regardless of the tablet you choose, you can set up your programs to react to the majority of the tablet's features with some adjustments. You should discover whether that is truly the case or not, and which devices are recommended for those particular programs if they are supported. You mentioned that your software probably doesn't hook up to any special tablet functions. It's good that you're thinking through your requirements, it shows that you're already making the first step to a higher quality output. Question: Any idea where I can get such a device as outlined above? I'm aware that touch devices offer another option, but for now I'm just trying to tell whether there is anything I can use that allows what I've described above, cheaply. It would be a nice to have, though the apps I'd be using would anyway have their own onscreen palettes and probably wouldn't tie into the hardware. This will allow compatibility with the things I want to do. I'd prefer a device that doesn't require fancy driver installation and that basically operates just as the mouse does, only provides better accuracy (but if I cannot get that without going fancy, not the end of the world). I don't need pressure sensitivity, although I guess it wouldn't hurt I'd be working with limited, opaque palettes anyway, so opacity and gradients won't matter, only solid colour placement. I cannot handle this hovering thing: I tried a Wacom Bamboo some years ago but when I realised I could not move the mouse cursor without lifting the pen off the pad, I was disgusted. It's crucial that if I move the pen on the surface (whatever that may be), that this moves the mouse pointer. In this case maybe a stylus button is necessary, since selection is not based on press, instead movement is. ![]() I don't really mind switching to the mouse where necessary, though it would be nice to use the stylus to do everything - work in Windows and draw where necessary. So surface traction & immediate response are very important for me to feel more comfortable than using a mouse. Aside from this I've drawn with pen / pencil / paper for much of my life. ![]() So traction on the drawing tablet was a very important part of control. You pressed down on the tablet while holding one of two buttons (IIRC) - one to draw, one to erase. The Atari CX77 drawing software I used as a kid didn't use a pointer. Because the spriting apps probably don't hook up in any special way to specialised devices, a simple, mouse-emulating type of stylus would probably be best (no drivers, no fuss). I'll be using one of the popular Windows pixelling / animation apps like Cosmigo Pro-Motion or ASEprite on my Windows 7/8 workstation. This would be the first time I've seriously used a pen for drawing digitally since my 1984 Atari CX77 Touch Tablet. I'm finally thinking of going with a pen- or stylus-based solution for pixel art & animation.
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