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Fluid Brush delaying

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 12, 2022
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I decided to try out the fluid brush in Animate but for some reason the brush gets a large initial delay when making a stroke, and continue to create a delay towards my cursor until I let go, which creates a quick line from its current location to the cursor once released, which ends up making the line look awkward. The same can be said for the mouse.

However, when I bring my window into my main monitor, the fluid brush has no problems. The issue only occurs whenever I use Animate on my tablet. All other brushes are fine.

The version I am using is Adobe Animate CC 2023, v23.0
The display tablet I'm using is an XP Pen Artist 13.3 Pro

I've tried to show the delay problem using my tablet but it doesn't show the cursor in the video properly, so I've made a video with me using the mouse to show the delay better.

If needed, I can provide a better example with the tablet

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PeteStain

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Any updates to this? I have the same problem when I use Animate on my ROG Zephyrus Duo laptop. I use a Wacom One tablet and if the screen is duplicated onto the tablet it works fine but if I landscape the display across screeen and tablet then the Fluid Brush lags. It is only the Fluid Brush, same exact results as OP. Everything works fine on my desktop ,which is about 12 years old, no matter how the displays are formatted.

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Nick Gioia

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I have always found the fluid brush to be weird and more complicated to use then it needs to be. I stick to the Classic brush.

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ILYA27767133q7og

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I have the same problem, I am using XP Pen as well, so that may be the problem.

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AtaraxiAuthor

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It's been a while since I've posted this and I totally forgot about it!

I just wanted to update that for some reason, the fluid brush works properly now and I have no idea how.

My only guess is that when I sent an Animate file from my school computer to my personal one, it might've fixed my fluid brush, although that is a stretch.

Unfortunately, I still do not have a guaranteed correct answer to this problem yet.

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sssas27209452f1d2

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try updating your tablet's drivers !!

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AtaraxiAuthor

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I already have updated them.

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AtaraxiAuthor

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Here is another video on my problem.

I am completely bumfuzzled on why it only affects my tablet's screen and not my other screens.

_keyframer

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I noticed when you drew on your pen display, the cursor was very far off calibration. Was that on purpose for demonstration reasons?

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AtaraxiAuthor

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Yeah, I set it so that the screen area captured all the monitor to demonstrate.

_keyframer

Community Expert

And you can verify you have the latest XP-Pen driver for your device?
https://www.xp-pen.com/download-430.html
V3.3.10.220926

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AtaraxiAuthor

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Yep, I have the latest driver.

kglad

Community Expert

reset your...

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AtaraxiAuthor

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Also just as a side experiment I did, I have tried to duplicate my tablet's display with my main monitor.

Initially, it was lagging a bit but was gone once I started using my mouse, it worked perfectly (used both my tablet and my mouse to draw with the brush).
The second time I duplicated it, the fluid brush was still lagging, so it might just be a one-off thing.

kglad

Community Expert

reset your preferences:

1.assign (if none now exist) a custom keyboard shortcut:

2.reset your preferences* (you should not give up on this until you've tried several times)

3.confirm you were successful by checking your keyboard shortcut was reset

if it's not, return to step 2

if it is reset, check if the problem is resolved

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press and hold Control+Alt+Shift (Windows) or

Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) as you start Animate.

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AtaraxiAuthor

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Haven't been able to reset my keyboard shortcut despite trying multiple times. I'm not sure if I am messing something up or what.

_keyframer

Community Expert

Also, make sure you don't have any other pen display drivers still installed (such as Wacom or others).

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AtaraxiAuthor

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About a year ago before this tablet, I had a Huion tablet. Since then, I have already uninstalled it even before connecting my XP Pen tablet, so unless it's somehow still on my computer (unlikely), then the issue most likely does not connect to the conflicting drivers.

_keyframer

Community Expert

I am on an Apple M1 using an XP-Pen 22R Pen Display and having no issues. So I started comparing your display specs against mine...
Yours: https://www.storexppen.com/buy/artist-13-pro.html

Mine: https://www.storexppen.com/buy/artist-22r-pro.html

Notably both displays have the same response time of 14ms

My driver build is Ver 3.2.3(build: 6sf1c29)
I suspect this is a conflict with your CPU/OS - you on windows?

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