Firealpaca pressure sensitivity11/7/2023 ![]() I ended up really liking the one they called “curve B” but it had a couple weird bugs that had it drawing lines even when the pen seemed to be hovering. One of the engineers that came out seemed 100% confident that they could make the machine “feel” the way I wanted it to and the two custom pressure curves they showed me were super interesting. What I was looking for wasn’t so much more levels of pressure sensitivity but greater variation in line quality within the slice of the spectrum I was using. The Surface Pro 3 has 256 levels of pressure sensitivity and it turns out I wasn’t using anywhere near the entire spectrum. They also had a program that measured the pressure I was applying to the screen so they were able to build a sort of map of how I use pressure to draw. Each one had been tweaked to treat pen pressure a little differently. Next they had me try drawing on a couple different devices that had altered “pressure curves”. ![]() I told them that as a user, I’d be happy to go into the pen settings on the device and check a box that turned that on or off. Sadly they are not 100% sure how they are going to role that particular feature out yet. The fix worked perfectly and I actually asked them if they could put it on my personal machine right there. It stays disabled for a couple seconds after lifting the pen up so that you can lift your hand up and select menu items. Basically when the pen is in contact with the screen the home button is disabled. The fix they came up with was pretty cool. It essentially makes working on the Pro 3 impossible for me. The number one issue I had was the home button placement. They ended up coming out to the PA office this time with a handful of devices for me to test out. They told me they are determined to make the device work for artists and they appreciated my help.Ī week or so went by and MS reached out again and asked if they could show me some of the fixes they were working on. Specifically artists who want to use it the way I do are really the only people who will have issues. I explained that it was a cool device and that a person who buys it to take notes or doodle or just replace their laptop is probably going to love it. After I was done they told me they were going to take all the notes they had gathered and go to work on fixing the issues I had shown them. The results were pretty much the same across the board. They had me draw on a few different devices with some modifications they had made as well as various hardware specs. ![]() The Surface 3 just couldn’t keep up with my drawing which was a problem I never noticed on my Pro 2. They could all see me draw a line and watch it pop in a split second later. I was also able to show them some of the lag I was noticing. I had to press very lightly or very hard, and it changes the way I draw. With the Surface Pro 3 I feel like I need to either whisper or yell to have the same conversation. I said drawing on the Pro 2 was like having a conversation with someone. I ended up describing it in terms of speaking. It’s very hard to take something like how the device “feels” to draw on and convert that into something engineers can use. ![]() I went on to talk about how the pressure sensitivity felt a little off to me. They were very obviously bothered that they had not seen this before. I could see some of them shaking their heads and looking at each other. I was trying to draw for them but kept brushing that home button and getting kicked out to the desktop. Within the first thirty seconds they realised how frustrating the home button placement was. I drew and talked for two and half hours while they watched and took notes. I ended up in a conference room with about half a dozen people from the Surface team. I figured if watching me use the device could help them fix some of this stuff then it was worth giving them an afternoon. Basically they wanted to get me in a room with the designers and engineers and just have them watch me draw for a while. MS reached out to me and asked if I would be willing to come over to the campus and meet with some folks from the Surface team. Last time I talked about the Surface Pro 3 I laid out some of the problems I had with the device. ![]()
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