[Soft Selection in Affinity Design]

No problem Garry. 

Thanks for the video. Yes this function is very useful, I use it a lot when working. 

[Soft Selection in Affinity Design]

I'm glad you see the usefulness of the idea guys. I understand the request for more information Garry. Modern application development requires thorough thinking to ensure nothing breaks current code and to ensure it integrates into the application elegantly. The points you mentioned makes me think this feature should be included into the current node selection system as a check box selection. This way it integrates into the system without extra tool buttons or keyboard modifiers. This way it's available on all platforms and shouldn't interfere with other features. When enabled maybe it will display a text field and/or a slider for the radius control.

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Apologies for the late reply. How I envision the feature is as follows. the user double right click or using a hot key + double click the shape. 

a new set of node handles appear on the shape. the user then has control of the radius by typing in a value or by mouse middle scroll.

the user then moves a node or node group and the closes surrounding nodes move proportionally. my example shows the nodes on the outside of the radius area being weakly effected by the operation. the strength of the edit is demonstrated by the gradient colour.

I did my best to demonstrate this visually. I hope it helps

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10 minutes ago, Alfred said:

It’s called ‘Soft Selection’ in other software but in Blender it’s actually called ‘Proportional Editing’.

https://www.versluis.com/2015/04/how-to-use-soft-selections-in-blender/

 

Yes that's correct Alfred. I blame Autodesk lol I was a user of 3d max for some time before blender. 

[Soft Selection in Affinity Design]

Hi GarryP,

This feature will enable the user to select a node and it's neighbors according to a selection radius. This will happen in a gradient, weakly effecting the furthest node from selection. So the user can move the node and selections proportionally.

This video is a good example of the feature. 

 

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Hi,

I'm a user of Blender 3d and found this feature very helpful when creating shapes and objects. Its called Soft Selection

and I think for editing curves in Design it would be a great feature. I have attached a picture to best describe what I mean.

Thanks for a great software.

[Free brush packs - Both Vector and Raster]

Thank you for these, I appreciate it!