Type of device* : 2 in 1 Laptop
Brand and version of the device: HP Envy 360
System** : Windows 10
* graphics tablet/display tablet/2-in-1 laptop/Android tablet
** Windows/Linux/Mac/Android, + version (you’ll find it in Help -> Show system information for bug reports)
Description of the issue (you can include screenshots): No matter what I do, I can’t get the pressure sensitivity to work. I’ve looked up several tutorials and troubleshooting articles, including the pressure curve settings, toolbar problems, and other issues people have had, but nothing has seemed to work. I have another art program that pressure sensitivity works in, so I don’t think that’s the issue. I’d prefer to use Krita, as it’s a more workable tool for what I want to use it for, but I kind of need pressure sensitivity. Can someone help?
One quick thing you can try is change the Windows Input API in Tablet Settings. There are only 2 choices – change yours to the other setting then close Krita and restart it to make it take effect.
I spoke too soon. It enabled the speed function, but pressure sensitivity still isn’t working. Should’ve looked harder before crying success. Thanks anyway though! I’ll try and mess around with drivers some more I suppose.
You have the same laptop I use as well. When I didn’t have spare screen protectors for my tablet, I had to use the laptop screen itself (with the included laptop pen). For the pressure sensitivity to work you would have to go into the settings.
Settings → Configure Krita → Tablet Settings (2 options: WinTab & Windows 8+Pointer Input) → select Windows 8+ Pointer Input → click Ok → close and reopen Krita
the WinTab is used for drawing tablets while the Windows 8+ is used for laptops with touch screens/a pen
Changing the input from WinTab to Windows 8+ worked for me
Do you mean the speed record in the tablet tester?
With those pressure sensitive screen laptops, it’s rare to be able to find any configuration utility for the pen itself, apart from the system level Windows Ink settings.
The final/practical check for pressure sensitivity is to use the Basic-2 Opacity or the Basic-5 Size brush preset because thay have simple and obvious response to pressure variation.
At a ‘lower’ level than that, you can check what is actually being received from the stylus with Settings → Configure Krita → Tablet settings → Open tablet Tester.
The tablet tester should be resized to make it conveniently large then you draw on the grid are and see the received stylus events on the right side.
You should get events with P=xy.z% where xy.z is the pressure input varying from 0.0% to 100.0%
When I said speed function, I meant the option in the pen settings size menu where you can enable speed as a setting to control thickness. I tried both of the above recommendations, and this is what happened
Can you check to see if your drivers are up to date? The fact that your device works with other programs is not an effective way to judge it as many programs don’t rely on your device drivers but Krita does. I’ve noticed that when pressure works in other programs and not Krita it usually turns out to be a driver problem.
I’m not familiar with your device, but others like Ugee and Huion have a very specific order of events for driver installation and update - varying from their specified order messes up the driver but there’s no warning or error msg. The mfgr. website could tell you more about your specs.
Your stylus is being presented as a mouse to krita. As such, it has no pressure signal.
You need to concentrate on the Tablet Tester results to get a Pressure signal in there before there is any point in trying any brush property settings.
As a matter of interest, what happens if you change the tablet settings to Wintab?
(A restart of krita will be needed.)
It’s not clear if @WildflareViking is using some 2-in-1 laptop touchscreen stylus or is using an externally connected graphics tablet (with installable and adjustable drivers/utilities) because they haven’t made a clear statement about this matter.
So, which is it?
I am using a 2-in-1 laptop touchscreen with a stylus directly on the screen, I’ve also tried switching it to both Wintab and the Windows option, neither of which affects anything
