Fixing Pen Cursor Offset

Are your lines showing AWAY from where you stroke with your tablet's pen? Check this short guide for the most common cause, and the solution.

1. The problem.

As the image up there illustrates, the lines will appear away from your mouse cursor, which is also where you are physically moving your pen. This is called an offset. In most cases it will show to the left of the cursor, though not always.

2. The solution.

This one is pretty straight-forward. Check the bottom-right of openCanvas' main window.



The Tablet and Coordinate fields are clickable, and thus changeable. You can fuss around with them to see what changes, but to fix the offset issue you'll most likely only need to change the Coordinates to OS, rather than Tablet.



... PortalGraphics (the developer) really needs to update it so OS is the default setting. Anyway, that alone outta fix your issue. Just to make sure restart OC, though it MIGHT not be necessary.

If after fussing with the coordinate settings AND restarting OC your issue is STILL not fixed (either partially or at all), then you might want to check your pen tablet's drivers. Look for any settings related with calibration.

[Autistic_Pioneer]

Thank you so much. I felt so upset when this happened to me.

[Xenarax]

thanks, it helped!
I asked a question on the forum, but nobody answered me there.
I should have looked into the guides earlier.

[Itimora]

OMG I didn't know this! welp I have learn my lesson and thank you every much

[zuikaku]

The first time i uesed OC,there is no probelm,the problem appears after i reinstall it .Also the Tablet coordinates is more fluent when i use it ,i hope you can fix it QWQ

[Fontes]

@oronyapocket I'm afraid that can't be done. There are no cursor coordinate options in OC1.

[oronyapocket]

would you happen to know how to do this in oc 1?

[Fontes]

No prob, Glad to be of use!

[Sarah]

Thank you for your awesome guides and tips for OC6!