[Perspective grid]

+1

[Affinity Designer Windows Customer Beta - 1.9.4.1048]

Is that a full change log? This version also seems to fix many bugs with nested symbols.

[Feature request: shortcuts to enable/disable groups of layers]

42 minutes ago, kirk23 said:

 

How would you do it for  Select Same Color Tag .  Looks like there is no such thing in that shortcut assigning dialog.   It's so inconvenient

There is a shortcut option for it in the Select section if I remember correctly. I'm not at the computer atm. But it is somewhat inconvenient because it just selects the same color (what is selected), not a specific color.

[Feature request: shortcuts to enable/disable groups of layers]

Seems that it's already possible to do almost what I wanted by using color tags and adding a shortcut to Select Same Color Tag and then disabling or enabling one of the selected layers manually.

[Feature request: shortcuts to enable/disable groups of layers]

37 minutes ago, GarryP said:

What do you mean by “allow” and what do you mean by “index”?
Do you mean that each layer can be given an “index” by the user?
Or do you mean that each level in the layer hierarchy should have it’s own “index” automatically applied by the software?
Or something else?
I think you might have the start of a good idea, if I understand you correctly, but I would need to know more about what you mean to have a better idea of what you want and how it might work.
As with many things, “the devil is in the detail” with this sort of thing and a good idea can often be brought down by practicalities.

Give us a more detailed explanation of how you expect it to work, with respect to the existing functionality, and people may agree with you.

I meant that each layer could be given an “index” by the user. But I found out the color tags could be more fit for this. Please see the edit in the first post.

[Feature request: shortcuts to enable/disable groups of layers]

Allow layers to have a layer index (0-9). Many layers would be able to have the same index.
Then allow setting shortcut keys to disable and enable all layers with an index.
For example Ctrl + 4 would enable all layers with an index of 4, and Ctrl + Shift + 4 would disable all those layers. (Maybe make additionally a toggle.)

 

This feature would have many uses. I personally would use it to make the performance better before certain tasks.

 

EDIT: Being able to use a shortcut key to set all layers on or off that have a specific color tag (instead of an "index") would be the easiest implementation. Also, please see what kirk23 said about the tag implementation.

EDIT2: Seems that it's already possible to do almost what I wanted by using color tags and adding a shortcut to Select Same Color Tag and then disabling or enabling one of the selected layers manually.

[Hard cropping (performance optimization)]

Allow cropping or masking a layer so that it actually increases performance when the mask is active.

This "hard cropping" would (temporarily) discard everything (all input data) outside the given rectangle, and not just mask the output area/rectangle like the regular masking in Affinity does.

Also, layer FX's would see the area smaller,  and there might be some differences with blur etc. but it would still be a valuable tool to increase the performance on a large document, by focusing the computing power to the small ("hard cropped") area at a time.