Of course after searching for around half an hour, I find what I believe to be the manual, or at least a portion of it. Here it is, for others in similar situations: https://web.archive.org/web/20240129153855/https://www.wellobserve.com/en.php?post=20221222165617
Hi there! I’m sorry you have problem accessing the page. It does load fine here, so I believe it could be a slight hiccup on my server… Sometimes they got DDoS’ed, or it could also be your ISP somehow can’t route to the server.
The archive page is indeed the manual. Could you try again for my website? I’m not actually sure what is going on exactly
Hello again! It seems to work fine now, but yesterday for several hours (to my knowledge) it was not returning load requests. All with WellObserve is well now!
Now I have a new question. I am thinking about trying to use this for doodling, but also scribbling notes. Because you are able to export PNG files, this could be useful to my workflow. I am looking into buying a cheaper digital tablet for now, to experiment and see if this is something worth investing into. Your manual says OurPaint supports Wacom and Surface, does that mean OurPaint will exclusively work with those types (which are more expensive), or those are the only ones you've tested? I've found some cheaper alternatives from XP-Pen and HUION. These claim to have major compatibility specs, but maybe OurPaint is only built to respond to Wacom? I understand if this is something outside of your knowledge, it is a rather broad inquiry. Thanks for your time, and your software is looking great regardless!
Hi! If you are on windows, OurPaint supports Windows Ink, and I think all tablets on windows now have that driver option (after you installed the driver, you can set that in the program), and you will have no problem using it. I have Huion/xppen users saying they work fine, even without windows ink, those tablets mostly uses wacom-compatible driver, so programs can recognize them just fine. On linux, it should also just work after driver installation. You can pick any reasonably reputable model and you should be good to go :D
If you ever encounter any problems with tables, please report back to me and I’ll cooperate with you to fix the issue. (most of the time just minor tweaks and we can support a brand new tablet)
Cheers!
Good to know about Windows Ink, that is super convenient! I have ordered an entry level HUION, got a good deal (almost half off!), I will let you know about compatibility once it arrives, but after what you said I think it will be just fine. Thank you for your help!
Also I might as well add here, it is phenomenal that you are both artistically skilled and in possession of software finesse! Mighty good work!
Just got my tablet, excited to work with OurPaint! It seems to work very smoothly, but there is no pressure sensitivity? Perhaps it is an unsupported feature, or I am not setting it up the device correctly. When I try different brushes, I am not getting any difference in stroke thickness/intensity when I let off or push with more pressure. Also, Windows tells me that the table is online, but has a "driver error"... I downloaded from huion.com/download and it seems to have worked, gave me a program for remapping hotkeys and such, and restarted my computer, but nada. Your manual says to choose from Windows Ink or WinTab to get pressure event, but also that if it doesn't work, my input just isn't supported yet. You mentioned earlier that you know people use OurPaint with Huions, do they say anything about this? Anyways, you're not tech support, but I would appreciate any insight you may have. Cheers!
Hi hi! You may want to toggle this setting in windows: In windows pen setting, you can find a “allow this device to be used as mouse” option (You may need to dig a little bit, it’s in the setting app in Win11 and Win10, can’t remember that clear…), you either set this option to on and off, and together with the wintab option in OurPaint and Huion software, you should get pressure to appear in one combination… Use “Digital Pointy” brush to see the pressure effect more prominently. I had to use this option as well to get pressure on windows, it’s kinda weird.
Using "Digital Pointy" brush, I got pressure sensitivity to work with "WinTab" driver in OurPaint, and "Let me use my pen as a mouse when it's available" set to ON in Windows Pen settings (Windows 11)! I didn't realize the default "OurPaint" didn't really show pressure sensitivity, is this part of the "programmable, featureless, node-based" brush concept? If so I shall have to dig into this deeply and see how to make brushes that show the pressure sensitivity by default and change all your nice preset brushes! Thank you for your help!
Unfortunately the program keeps crashing if I switch brushes and try to draw much more than a few strokes.
Also, I opened Blender 3.0.0, and if you are curious, it seemed to work just fine, and I was able to adjust pressure sensitivity with the download program from Huion. It worked whether mouse pen option was on or off in Windows Pen settings.
Hi! If this option works, then pressure is working normally. Most brushes in OurPaint has pressure dynamics already. If you want a simple configuration, just add a new brush, don’t enable the nodes, then there will be a P symbol next to size/transparency sliders and if you click that it will automatically use pressure for those properties. However the crashing thing may need more investigation. It shouldn’t crash that frequently as I barely had any using this to create my comics… I’m actually not sure how can I reproduce the crash… Could you describe what your exact actions are when you encounter the crash? Thanks!!