TimoCreations

One thing that I am missing the most is a tool to roughen edges for vector curves, shapes, or anything. What I mean are tools like "roughen" or "scribble" in Illustrator, sadly nowhere to be found. My work often looks way too "clean", and workarounds either take up way too much time and effort, or just don't have the same effect.

That Links panel is so cool! Thanks for the information!

Oh hey, I figured out a solution! Select the Group you want the texture layer on make it a "Symbol" in the Symbol window in Designer. Copy the Symbol Group and drag it as a clipping mask into the texture layer, like shown in the video above. Now any changes will be applied to both!

Thank you so much! This should fix my problem. The only problem I have with this, though, is that any changes I make to the boat group will not automatically be applied to the clipping mask (if I place stuff outside the mask or change the form). This solution should work for this project, but I'm very open to finding a solution to not having to re-apply the mask, whether though an idea or through a future update. But again, many thanks.

Hello, thanks a lot for the response! I have uploaded the file to the dropbox link.

Hello jaedee, thanks for the input. Though, the passthrough blend mode works differently in Affinity. With the passthrough blend mode, the group has no specific blend mode on its own and that's always worked for me before. When I put the blend mode of the group to normal, then the texture layer coveres the whole screen and it ignores the multiply blend mode of the layer completely.

Still no reply from someone other than Walt - This is pretty major and I have yet to find a solution. Any input is much appreciated.

Yes, please!

Yes, I think the Passthrough blend mode is called Transfer in German. Here's a screenshot. Basically, the DAUB Paper layer with multiply blend mode is also affecting the group beneath.

I am using Affinity Publisher and also the other two programs within it. When I put a texture layer with a multiply blendmode inside of a group, for some reason it is also affecting all the layers beneath it that aren't in that group. The group blendmode is set to Transfer.

I'm not sure if this answers the question, but you can use the "Erase" blendmode at the bottom to use any vector shape as cutout to everything beneath it. If you want to only affect one layer or a group, drag it into a group.