Bibi McMurray

Hi Bibi
I'm very sorry to hear you're having trouble!
If no update was performed during this time, it sounds as though a third party app may be affecting your Affinity files and routinely 'cleaning' these folders.
Do you have any third party apps installed, such as CCleaner, designed for removing unwanted files from your computer?
Many thanks in advance!

Hi all, 
I've been learning how to, and experimenting making brushes and swatches and I thought I would share some with you.
If you have any advice, tips, hints, suggestions I would really love to hear them.

Brushes_swatches_for_Infinity_Designer_Forum.zip

Sure... Even if I can say that bigger nozzle/tip is not always better.
Talking about pure painting or sketching tools (I mean tools that want to reproduce natural media experience) even working on large canvases you never reach those sizes.
 
A 1024x1024px nozzle for a pencil means that you can use a 1024px wide brush... But... Would you?
Consider that with such a tool you can literally fill a 4k file with three strokes.
And a 4k file (8Mpx of resolution more or less) is dense enough to produce a good quality A3 print.
 
Different approach if you want to create a Texture brush, in that case the larger the better since you want to block large areas quickly.
But also, in my opinion with massive large brushes the painterly effect "faints" somehow, so you have to tune up your upper limit.
 
Don't forget that sometimes low res nozzles are useful to reach some effects as a very soft pigment tool.
So a 128x128px tool upscaled to a 1200px width brush can deliver a really nice subtle texture.

Sure!
 
It's pretty easy:
 
1) Create a new Intensity brush form Brushes Studio palette
2) Use a PNG picture as starting nozzle (use this one for example)
 

 
3) Form Brush editing palette use these settings
 

 
4) In Dynamics these...
 

     
And you're done!
I do prefer Pixel Tool because turns anti-alias off and delivers gritty results, but it is pretty usable even with brush tool.
Flow variation helps to simulate pencil hardness.

Different versions of the Visual C++ Redistributable are used by different applications.
Newer versions sometimes omit things that older versions have – or otherwise work in different ways – and therefore some applications may not be able to run with a newer version, which is why you have lots, each being used by one or more applications that need it.
If you have any particular one then it’s probable that one of the apps you have installed needs it.
They all just sit around on disk waiting to be used so they don’t take up any ‘in-use resources’ (unless something is using them).
Permanently uninstalling any one may cause problems but reinstalling one or more should be okay.

Well I know it looks somehow always strange and chaotic to have so much of them, but sadly they are needed by certain software which installed those along their installment since they relay on those specific ones. - See also ...
Microsoft ends Visual C++ Redistributable Chaos VC ++ 2019: The end of MS C++ Redistribution Chaos? Why Are There So Many “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables” Installed on My PC? ... and down on page the comments there.
 

Awesome Stuart, thanks for the sample sheet.

The shown exception for AD is related to the Microsoft ucrtbase.dll, which is a C ++ runtime library that comes with Microsoft Visual C ++ Redistributable, either as 2015 or 2017 versions. - It's sometimes causing problems on Win systems after a Windows update etc. You can try to deinstall and reinstall the Microsoft package Visual C ++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) again. Or search the Microsoft Knowledgebase about certain ucrtbase.dll problems and how to fix them.
Microsoft Visual C ++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 There are also sources like this Wiki Dll here, which do tell a bunch of possible procedures for ucrtbase.dll handling. Though I first would try a first hand reinstall from Microsoft's redistributable package sources. - Other than that it might also be some associated AD problem after newest Microsoft OS updates.

That could be a redraw issue. If you move the canvas out of sight, i.e. out of the workspace area and then move it back do the objects appear on the left side?

If it's an M.2 they are pretty quick drives, approx 3 x quicker than a standard SSD.

Thank you for reminding me!...I meant to put together a scamp sheet outlining the process for the Camouflage Projects....Thought the text explanation was a bit bland....so....
 

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There should be no problem installing on the E: drive rather than the C: drive. I've done that with all my Affinity applications (and many other applications) with no issues at all.

Maybe it is different for Windows but on Macs all the assets, custom brushes, & so on are stored on a per user basis (so each user account can have its own stuff), not in or with the application. On Macs, these per user items are saved on the startup drive by default -- it is possible to move the user account folder to a different drive but this must be done explicitly in a multi-step process using the command line interface.
So assuming it is similar for Windows, all the assets & such would already be stored on the C drive & just uninstalling & reinstalling the app might be all that is needed ... assuming the uninstall process does not 'helpfully' remove all the per user files as well.

That's not my understanding of portable - that would be an app that can be installed on a removable drive and run on different PCs.  I can't think of any reason why AD must be installed on the system disk, but if that's the case there shouldn't be an option to do something different.
My first thought was  that there's just one physical drive that's been partitioned.  If that's the case the partition sizes can be changed.
That's common practice with the big manufacturers - it make remote disaster recovery easier (so long as the disk itself is ok).  
I think @v_kyr's suggestion to reinstall on the system drive is a good one, but before you do that I'd install something like EaseUS Partition Manager (the free version) and find out how many partitions and how many physical drives you've got.  Knowing that, you'll be better placed to plan your next move.  
I've tried installing software on different drives in the past.  It wasn't my best idea, but I never had any problems with software not running.  I suspect that reinstalling will give you a more manageable system, but I don't expect it to fix the problem - I hope I'm wrong!

There are reasons a system can be configured in such a way. If it's a Desktop PC I suspect it has 2 Hard drives, a Solid State Disk (SSD) to get quick boot speeds and fast program reactions and either a standard SATA or a Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (SSD/HDD) for storage.
When Windows installs a program there are multiple locations it will add files to. It will also add registry entries (don't go there unless you know what you are doing )  Like V_kyr has said let the uninstaller do the work because it will remove registry entries as well. Anything created after install will likely stay on Drive E: because the uninstaller will not know about those files.
Just because something says it's associated with Affinity does not necessarily mean it's of affinity so be careful what you delete. If need be check here first.

Wow Stuart, fantastic and as VectorWhizz pointed out, a lot of work.

I love looking at your artwork, your methods and the way you create the documents for us to view.
Thanks. 

Organic Pattern Brushes 02
Extended Organic Pattern Brush Set
30 Brushes
14 Seamless patterns  

Vector Elements:Plants
Added individual Vector Asset Sheet 1 & 2

Camouflage II
Finally finished the second Camouflage Vector Drawing. 
Completed in Affinity Designer 1.7 with a little help from the 1.8 Beta.
Continued with same theme as Camouflage I but with a completely new set of vector objects.
Original size 1500 x 500mm 300dpi
Uploaded at 3543 x 1181 jpg
Eight layer Composite Embedded file set
 

 
 
 
 

Yip that wasn't a good installment idea, since the Affinity apps aren't so called portable Win app versions, meaning those apps who can here be instead installed in an freely choosable independent drive/directory manner from the usual drive C related Win programs folder.
Your best move might be (in case you get it somehow opened and running again from drive E) to export and backup all the stuff you explicitly internally added to it (brushes, assets, styles etc.), as far as you don't have backup copies of those add-on files. Then use the Win/apps uninstaller and uninstall the whole (the Installer part usually keeps a track of what has been where installed, meaning it holds a list and knows where file portions of the release app have been placed to during the installation. That's what the Uninstaller then usually accesses when removing/deinstalling again).
Afterwards install it newly/freshly the usual default way on your drive C, so it appears there under the Win programs. Then you can reimport all those things you have added additionally/manually. - Note that working files etc., so those which you created with AD, can be still left on drive E, those shouldn't be affected since they don't belong to the initial release app. Thus you have to differentiate between those and the AD apps own release files (for the later the Uninstaller should normally automatically know).
 

I needed a quick script to make it easier to create some styles that contained stripes using the fx gradient overlay but it obviously also works with the standard gradient. With just a few stripes and it's easy enough but when you are doing 20 or more with fractional percentages it's too much for my tiny mind to easily keep track of 
So just enter the odd and even stripe width percentages then where any padding should go and it lists the gradient stops to add. I copied the output to a text file and as I completed steps just deleted them from the list. It saved me a headache. 
Don't look too hard at the messy code, it was a quickie!
Stripes.py

Hi all, 
I've been learning how to, and experimenting making brushes and swatches and I thought I would share some with you.
If you have any advice, tips, hints, suggestions I would really love to hear them.

Brushes_swatches_for_Infinity_Designer_Forum.zip

I am posting a third set of custom Textured brushes for Affinity Designer:
Textured pack 03 Intensity brushes (zip file - big - 30+mb)
 
These are more remakes of custom brushes I created for Expression3 back in 2004-2007. Plus quite a few new custom brushes and variants.
This set is also a continuation of the previous sets posted. Strokes developed with a moderately organic, mostly (un)natural media, water or oil based pigment like art approach in mind. There is a big variety of brush "looks" included. None of these are strict emulations of traditional media effects. Each is a little "digital" in its own way. There are quite a few wash stroke variations in this set and a few wild cards.
There are quite a few additional rugged drawing/wet inking brushes as well.
There are also several brushes with raged, dashed or random textures.
 
Example images of the strokes are attached here.
Hope the user base here finds this third set interesting and useful.

Hi all, 
I've been learning how to, and experimenting making brushes and swatches and I thought I would share some with you.
If you have any advice, tips, hints, suggestions I would really love to hear them.

Brushes_swatches_for_Infinity_Designer_Forum.zip