DEWLine

Thank you for the clarification!

At this point, I expect to be well behind most Affinity users for a couple of years until I can afford to further upgrade my hardware (and software), hence my concern.

🙂

International Flags.afassets

Thank you. This is going to be useful for building certain kinds of star maps!

Here's a quick Mini-HowTo for making a more trivial/simple protractor in ADe ...

simple_protractor.afdesign

Let's go back to school, with some of those common and well known school protractors for measuring in degrees.


 

... etc.
 
The protractor assets shared here ...

... are all vector based and do have printed on degree scales. You have to adapt/size the default assets protractor sizes to your document needs and thus scale them up/down so they nearly match your doc measurements.
Note that all protractors are just a bunch of grouped/layered together vector parts (curves and text) thus they can be modified in colorings and the like. Also you should always move & size etc. a whole reused protractor group/layer when needed!
Here is the associated assets file:
protractors.afassets Have a nice school day!
 
 

Of course we can also make the same for ADe reusage with some Python scripting, as an example with it's fun simple Turtle graphics. - So let's make it quickly instead with some Python Turtle drawings ...
from turtle import * for theta in range(0,360,30): fd(100) write(str(theta)+'*') backward(100) left(30) goto(0, -100) circle(100) goto(0, -10) circle(10) mainloop()
screencast_turtle.mp4 And if we want to have the whole instead as a SVG drawing for reusage in ADe ...
# Use the SvgTurtle package --> pip install svg_turtle from svg_turtle import SvgTurtle t = SvgTurtle(500, 500) for theta in range(0,360,30): t.fd(100) t.write(str(theta)+'°') t.backward(100) t.left(30) t.goto(0, -100) t.circle(100) t.goto(0, -10) t.circle(10) t.save_as('simple_protractor.svg') ... we can use the Python svg_turtle module instead to generate the whole and save it then as a reusable SVG file.
simple_protractor.svg

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Hi @Maria36
The license is CC0. So you can use the template for your own work.
Read here for more informations to the creative commons: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/
 

Added some plain + vintage Badge Assets.
Some plain + vintage Badge Assets

Hi
Ah good Question. I have 1000's of patterns that have been created over past few years. This year I opted for a different method of brush creation.
The original method involved lots of brush sets where a single nozzle group could have a texture pattern. This led to a lot of brush sets each with a collection of individual brushes. More recently I sort of decided the way to go was to create a dedicated brush set with different nozzles but make the textures independent.

This allows any brush set to access any collection of patterns so in theory a single collection of nozzles could be 1000's of different brush patterns. I collected all the patterns together into different groups.
I have been a bit 'stuck' with brush creation recently as the app keeps crashing when I try to edit brushes in depth So I have not uploaded much on the brush front for a while. Keep trying to update Big-T set and add a collection of base textures to it in a similar fashion to PB 31

The ink blockers were created initially for the Comic Book Toolkit as I needed something to create flat blocks of colour with irregular or smooth edges. I used them to create the 'Speech Bubbles' then vector outline the result in Inkscape. In the process I also found that these shapes themselves could be brush nozzles. also make good paint brushes in combination with the new 'Distance' option in the brush dynamics. You can in effect create a multiple brush from 1 group of nozzles. (Can reset + Size as distance)
There are a few sets that I have not processed yet
1. PB 33 Comic ink Blocking (still sort of working on it!)
2. PB 34 Graffiti (I was intrigued by this at the Cheltenham Paint Festival!)
3. PB 35 Zombie (I gave away 15 of these in the Zombie Toolkit) but have extended it to a set of 30 also not quiet finished!
4. PB 36 Speed Ink which is sort of a combination of the above but stops me jumping around brush sets
5. PB 37 Concept Ink Blocks (which I appear to be using a lot as paint brushes!)....

For the time being You could use PB 19 Inker and PB 31 Base pattern textures in combination. Or you could add the base patterns from PB 31 to the Free Zombie set in Zombie toolkit...Be aware there are generally 2 types of base patterns (1. for painting 1 for inking) or Solid blacks & Greyscale
 

I haven't updated this since the end of August?

Oops.

Still classified as a Work In Progress, FYI. Deviations from aired and published canon at the discretion of Edge of Midnight author John Concagh and myself as map designer.

 

For resources:have a play around with this for a map and other things..I had a play around with it...Its a powerful random map generator that can be downloaded as .SVG or .PNG

With SVG you can inport into AD but can create a lot of layers...but it's fun to play with....!
https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

A partial update.

Hi everyone,
I know there are already a couple of macOS App Icon templates around here in the forums, but none of these were suitable for my needs. So I created my own from scratch in Affinity Designer and decided to share it here with you. It's complete with editable shapes, custom grid and guides.
As you may know, there are three basic app icon shapes in macOS: circular, square and tilted rectangle. This template is for the circular version and contains only the basic elements. This way, it's easy to bring in your own design. For example, I've created the layers in a way that the inner circle can be easily used as a clipping layer to make sure that when placing a file, it won't exceed the boundaries of the actual design area.
I used Apple's iBooks icon from Mojave as a reference and tried to match gradients, strokes and shadows. I did however change the icon size and guide positions by just a few pixels to strictly constrain to the 8x8 pixels grid Apple suggests in its design guidelines. Apple's own icons are often slightly off-grid; I decided to correct this at least for the basic shapes and sizes found in the template.
Speaking of grid, I made one with Affinity Designer's Grid and Axis Manager which is 64 pixels with 4x16 pixels subdivisions (not 8 pixels to not make it look too dense). Since Designer doesn't support circular and diagonal guides, I created these as actual curves and shapes in the document and put them in their own group (diagonals snapping is however enabled via the Intermediate angles feature).
For more information about the macOS icon grid, see here.
Any comments and suggestions are very welcome.

 
macOS Circle Icon.afdesign

For all of those who can be interested in these pencil prototypes, I donwloaded and tried. They are, imho, very usefull and I like them a lot because you can use them as they are or, as I did, learn and see the effects. I modified some of them a little bit to fit to my "style" (let's say . In particular I found the pressure curve too subtle and changed, or the scatter x,y dynamics (increased a bit). or the rotation dynamics.
But overall they are very good and I could delete a lot of stuff donwloaded from other "photoshop" free but useless stuff sites.
thanks

@AGain I’m just going to post the files here on the post! Please enjoy them, and understand that, these were the first brushes I ever made for Affinity. They’re exactly what they are named - Prototypes. All brushes were designed from the same or similar nib images and textures. They’re still a lot of fun to play with and I keep coming up with different iterations and versions of them. - The Ultimate Liminifiers set included here is a set of colored layout pencils. I guess they’re what can be considered the end result of the experiments. Let me know what you think. I asked people to leave reviews or replies but not many people did. - However, more than 2000 people have downloaded them. 
0720_Prototypes.afbrushes 0820_SP_UL1.afbrushes

Thanks Mike.. It is sort of my response to trolls!

Template Assets and Tools
Template: Affinity Designer Sketch Templates
1. Exported 7 Base Page Templates from AD 2.0 for concept sketching. (as importable templates V2) consisting of:
a. 2 sketching layers (1 vector (pencil) 1 raster). With FX: Overlay set to Blue or red so no longer any need for specific colour brushes as you can set the colour from the FX layer
b. A Mask overlay layer for painting beneath. The overlays can be replaced using 40 additional assets
c. Option for Panels | Tiers where you can sketch inside (making use of the full page or custom shape)
d. Background Base solid colour 
e. Global Colours from APu template
f. 3mm Bleed
Template: Mask overlay assets
(x40) for layout variation (can be mixed with basic tier and panel shapes)

 

Comic Book Toolkit
It is really about building a comic Toolkit rather than Template in Publisher. Just wanted to see how feasible it is... Used images from Inktober and Untamed as they are a mix of vector and raster images + can create pages  | panels in AD and just place!
Still some work to do yet but it is getting there! Still a lot of assets to add

The test template (below) was built in Publisher but a lot of the layouts could also be constructed in Designer. 
Mask Overlay Assets (Orange)

Layout pages


Panel and Tier inserts

Hello everybody!
One of my Airmen is leaving to a new duty station, and following tradition we are presenting him with an appreciation going-away gift.  His family are big Star Trek fans, so I thought giving him a Star Trek themed piano finish plaque a-la a "PADD" would be neat.
Everything is a vector.  For the hangar, I edited out everybody from the squadron photograph I did and combined it with some test shots without folks to get a full hangar without people.  I tossed that image into Inkscape to get a vector from the photograph after doing some edge detection, levels, and black-and-white adjustments in Affinity Photo.  I am seeking a blueprint of the hangar so I can make a nice clean one, this vector is a mess but it worked in a pinch.
The Star Trek bits are taken from an LCARS program called LCARS 47.  I had to convert them to vector, but that wasn't difficult at all since the shapes are easy.
The Starfleet Intelligence pin is by the DeviantArt user cbunye (pending permission from him for me to engrave it.)
Mockup done in Blender.

Sorry about the certificate warning. The hosting I use didn't renew the cert appropriately from the authority. It has nothing to do with the files being downloaded, just the connection to the web site. I promise I'm not malicious. If I was I'd have nailed everyone from the affinity.graphics site when I had it up.
 
Edit: Fixed. It was actually a problem with wildcard domains. The authority doesn't like them, so I have to specify sub-domains individually.

Mine wasn't either, but I carried on, regardless, downloaded, and scanned. As I said, it worked to my satisfaction. It may not work for others.

I've scanned the downloaded zip with Malwarebytes. No Threats, No PUPs, No PUMs. Ditto for the extracted directory. The same goes for a custom scan of the extracted directory by Windows Security. Of course, as always, you mileage may vary.
Obviously I can't comment of the warnings given, but if you want these things, and you're willing to download the zip file, it's a good idea to make your file backups, too. There are posts that users declare that they've lost their downloaded Swatches, Styles, Brushes, Macros, &c., and can't recover them because they've lost the links. Many of the downloads can't be uploaded/shared by someone else because they're private/copyrighted. Save the downloads to a backup drive, and then save them again. That way, you'll never be in here asking, nay, dare I say, begging, for a link, por favor.
Edited to thank Chris for the link.
Edited to add, Maybe not use the cloud for your backups. Or do use the cloud. Good luck with that.

Let's add a framed slide for 35mm film template ...
external dimensions 50x50 mm inner window 23×35 mm to the collection. This one is made in AD via vectors so you can scale it up/down as needed.

 

 
The Affinity Designer slide template file:
slide.afdesign