Hey guys,
Since getting my cintiq and really being up on my art as i'm working I've noticed something critical that is really bothering me. Before I go on, I will say that I have tested it with my old tablet and its the same- as well as on my laptop with these same results.

Ever pay attention to your brush stroke once you let go? Does it move ever so slightly for you? I'm not talking about the smoothing, I'm talking about even at 0 smoothing. Does it move? If you have a windows PC give it a shot and vote above.

I'd used a MAC in the past very briefly to animate a small test segment and I was amazed at how smooth it was. I couldn't narrow it down why it seemed better, just chocked it up to me having a good day. After all this time, and now looking directly what I'm doing I've noticed this.

For those that I am bringing this to your attention for the first time, I'm sorry and your welcome. For those who are using MAC, could you give us your results? I wanna settle this for good.

I hate windows they can suck a D---k

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I hate windows they can suck a D---k

they would suck MAC's... and mac would love it cus there gaaaay!

In other news, read the post and stay on track as to what is being said.
This isn't a rant on which is better or worse. I'm just trying to hone down whether this specific issue is mac or pc related or whether or not I have some odd issue on my PC personally.

Alright I see what your saying.

Hmm.. the poll isn't helping much so far lol.

well, I'm not a tablet user so I can't say for certain.
What do you think may be a cause stone?

I say that it does, but that only correlates to flash, since flash deals with vectors. Even brush strokes with 0 smoothing get altered.

Maybe its your flash version?
do you use adobe cs or Macromedia?

Well thats the thing. I have flash 8 and cs4.
I have quite the beastly machine myself.
8gigs ram on an Intel QUAD Core Processor
Just upgraded my graphics card to a Radeon r6770 not more than a week ago to be able to support a third display, along with a graphics card upgrade ofc.

Beast machine, beast products and honed in skills. Yet I'm not sure if its how the framing work is done in windows itself vs a mac. I'd spoken to a 'geek squad' rep at best buy about the situation. He says he has an at-home studio where he produces and says he owns both machines. He finds that the MAC is more precise and renders faster but he can't speak for flash.

Idk, its just puzzling and annoying. When you get down to it, you need to be precise about this stuff.

To me it doesnt "move" as I draw something. but it smoothes it out a tiny bit (even at 0 smoothing), so it doesnt turn out 100% as I draw it, but like 99.9%.
But the screen on my Macbook IS pretty small. Maybe the pixels are just to small for me to notice it. idk

I think flash just does that so it doesn't look like ms paint..

I'm completely guessing here but, Vector graphics are just a series of points connected by straight and/or curved lines which are filled with a solid color or gradient.

When you draw a line with the brush tool, I'm assuming each pixel your mouse passes creates that brush shape in that exact spot. When you move your mouse quickly and it "skips" pixels, it creates a straight line between those points and does the same thing to each pixel that's part of that line.

What it does there seems like little more than just a pixellated visual representation of what the program is going to attempt to draw, I don't think the program can replicate that exactly.

I don't really know how macs and pc's differ with how their mouses function but I doubt it's all that different. Maybe the mac you used had a larger screen resolution? More available pixels on the screen to create those pre-vector representations with while you're drawing might make it closer to what the program eventually turns those vector points into.

Either way reducing smoothing should help, if you're accurate enough to draw without it.

well, I am using windows vista, and it's moving just slightly.