Photoshop 3D Brushes not drawing in correct place?

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Hi,
The 3D brushes in Photoshop are all great and very fun to use, especially the newer 3D pencil brushes, but ealrier I was getting quite irritated by the 3D brushes and where they actually draw on the canvas in relation to the 'tip' of the brush cursor on screen.
The brushes I am specifically talking about are the first set of actual 'paint brushes' typically found on the 2nd row down on the standard brush menu. Usually when I use these, I turn on opacity and flow jitter to respond to brush pressure, and of course the angle is determined by the angle at which I hold my tablet pen as they are 3D simulated brushes.
I notice that the newer pencil brushes work flawlessly, drawing exactly under the pointed area of the brush cursor, supposedly simulating the look of the lead of a pencil. This works just fine, and is easy to understand where the mark will appear on the canvas when I use them.
But the paint brush brushes lack this for me, and I'm not sure if its something wrong my end, or if its supposed to be this way? For example, if I tilt my brush at a normal shading angle to try and get a nice even. thick coat of paint from the tip, it instead seems to come out infront of my brush cursor not under it, and as a much thinner line that expected. This is not a big problem but when you try to do very precise tonal work in tight areas of an image, this trick on the eyes gets old fast.
Anyone have any suggestions as ways to fix this? Or is it suppoed to be like this and is the same for everyone else? If so, I'd persoanly push to try to change this in the next PS version to work more like the pencil brushes do, with the marks they make coming out from under their cursors instead of randomly about half an inch infront of them at times. Hope people understand what I mean: if not I'll try to make a video capture to get what the cursor is doing in relation to whats being drawn.
Thanks,
- Ricky

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