[Blend tool]

Cool - sorry I didnt notice it. - Is there any approximate timeframe/strategy for updates in general? Incremental or uber updates?

 

I want to use Affinity products as far as possible but I imagine I'm going to be in 2 camps for a while

[Blend tool]

One of the oldest illustrator (and Freehand) tools and essential for abstraction and logo development I would say.

 

blending along a path - Awesome - I still see little lights go on in the brains of my degree students when I show them that

 

I can see how it would be overlooked in the age of the super smooth gradients which is what the blend tool was there to do but its a lot more than that.

 

Any chance Designer will get more in the way of vector based filtering, roughen/ rumble pucker bloat etc.?

[Any plans to support illustrator plug-in format?]

Just wondering ...?

[3D tools]

Big Ask I guesss

 

But It would be great if Designer could extrude/revolve vectors in the way Ai does for 3D text but also if it could import obj/ dae/fbx in the way Anime studio does which is also vetcor based rendering I believe.

[Image Trace - Raster to Vector conversion]

I use illustrators Live trace to create abstract images from multiple auto traces of the same image with variation changes to the settings - the final result is interesting, experimental and never looks like an auto traced image.

 

If I do a sketch and auto trace it I use the line envelope and width tools with maybe the roughen filter set set below .9 to add digital noise to the stoke - auto trace is just a starting point.

[Feature Request - Create Array]

My suggestion would be create an array tool (its the kind of tool you find in a 3D app) with options like radial array, square array, distribution envelopes affecting things like scale, rotation, distance etc.

[Where did I leave my Colour Picker Dude]

Thanks yes I see that - I probably just didnt quite understand how it works after a lifetime in illustrator - its pixels only - how do you copy a gradient or other attribute to apply to another object? Is it only doable through creating styles?

[Where did I leave my Colour Picker Dude]

Hi

 

Cant find the colour picker anywhere. - looked in help files etc its mentioned but not where it is - I would assume it should be on the left hand side menu but no . . . have I gone blind?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[Plug-in support]

Will there be any kind of plug-in or scripting architecture?

 

I loved and still do love scriptographer - but Adobe were forever breaking it to the point where the developer gave up trying to support it. It had a mass of innovative user created tools.

Would be great to see this type of more abstract tools finding a home in Affinity.

 

http://scriptographer.org/

 

Great app so far!

 

will definitely be buying it and recommending to my students