Hi guys,
So i used to use Corel Painter on Mac. Now i switched to PC. Now im having a super annoying issue and i dont know how to fix it.
Every line i draw has weird breaks in it and does not come out smooth. A line that is drawn super fast and smooth somehow comes out with a wiggly look. This does not happen in photoshop, and does not happen on Corel on my Mac. Here is 2 pictures. One where i draw smooth lines the way they are supposed to look, and the weird slightly wiggly lines that Corel is giving me currently.
Smooth Normal Lines
https://imgur.com/a/POLLyDx
Weird Wiggly Lines
https://imgur.com/a/4yYa7cf
Any help or ideas would be appreciated. (I tried re-installing the program a couple times, downloading different wacom drivers, different brushes, plugging tablet into different usb, turning on and off windows ink, etc)
EDIT: SOLVED
I went to windows>settings>system >Display and changed "Change the size of text, apps, and other items" from 150% to 100%. And magically i have the smoothest lines ever like i used to, And i can switch it back and forth between 150% scaling and 100% and get the problem to come and go.
Also review this thread- been a problem in Painter for a long time.
painterfactory.com/.../127437
So actually i solved my problem. It turns out i was getting wiggly lines even in photoshop, not just Corel. And the fix was something i never seen anyone suggest, but i just did it randomly and it worked.
I went to windows>settings>system >Display and changed "Change the size of text, apps, and other items" from 150% to 100%. And magically i have the smoothest lines ever like i used to, And i can switch it back and forth between 150% scaling and 100% and get the problem to come and go. I cant believe. Someone was talking about multiple monitors maybe being a problem, so i was messing around in display settings and randomly chose to change that.
It kind of sucks of course because i have a 4k monitor, and not having 150% text scaling makes things very hard to read, because everything is so small. But god damn im happy i fixed it.
Thanks for the replies though and help!
If that's the solution, then major kudos to you, as this has been a longstanding complaint by people for a long time with Painter, and nothing seemed to fix it for some.
It's still fixed, and the problem still comes back when i set the display to scale text to 150%. So yea, its the fix for me. I was getting wiggly lines in photoshop to, but they were only 1/10 as bad, so it was actually hard to tell. So i dont think its a Corel program issue, more like a driver / windows thing. But if someone comes by this post hopefully it helps them to. because not a single post across the internet suggest that as a fix that i saw, and i was losing my mind.
There is another win10 setting for display; independent from the 150% setting you use. Hit win key + u to get to Text Size. I use 4K screens and set this to 130% (along with scale @ 150%). Only issue I have found is in newest Ps, some plugins panels are wrong sized....but you can change the 130% to 0 anytime (and go back) no restart needed.
I have no idea if this affects P22 brush wiggles.