awakenedbyowls

Give it a rest - seriously Every time I come on here someone's like.. oh but you should post threads this way If I want to go off on a slight tangent because I feel its might be related or whatever then I will I write concise threads and posts with easy to understand grammar I know how forums work Why don't you create a separate thread for winging about how other folk post since there is nothing ON-TOPIC about your post above and it's just distracting from discussing the issues I'm raising

Whatever happens I really don't want to have to teach myself how to use something else - now I'm getting the hang of things

It's happening with custom brush sets I'm making I think it might have something to do with duplicating duplicates - dragging them elsewhere and then duplicating them again like I tend work down the list chronologically so often I'll duplicate a previous brush and drag it down to the bottom and then when I duplicate that it seems to jump back up the list somewhere - maybe to below the original brush all duplicate brushes originated from I'm not sure - then it can be hard to find among the longish list of brushes all called the same thing +number I'm about to sign out the windows version for a couple of weeks so I'll be iPad only until I can keep an eye on this again

I just beefed up my RAM to 2x16GB and I'm using a fairly high spec gaming machine Maybe I need to update drivers of something but everything else is running smoothly - apart from Affinity Designer V2 Constantly having to re-click on things in the Layers panel going between that and functions - it's either got a lag of a split second or it doesn't register and I have to click again - enough to drive me round the bend Maybe something that only afflicts large complex files but isn't that what RAM is for ? Maybe I need to tune my PC for design software rather than games but since I use it for both I have it set to optimise gaming I only use Windows version for certain things - each version (that and the iPad) has it's advantages for doing certain things Would these problems be there if I'd just stayed on V1 - I don't think there is much that I use in V2 that wasn't already in V1 anyway so all I feel I'm getting for V2 is a slightly better interface design and just as many if not more bugs

Expand to open folder is already disabled - as I just looked

I'm trying to upload these images in order to explain what I mean but even that's not working right! Basically - if the above post which I'm trying to edit to get it looking right makes sense - I fixed this by closing the app and re-opening it Something screwed up the settings in my brushes that I created I had PNG files I was using aligned - and then they weren't (even though it was showing as they were in the brush editor panel) Here I am (yet again) reporting another bug Literally every time I use this software I spend about 50% of my time fixing problem

I was playing around with the brushes to try and get some nice effects creating flowers with different tones and I managed to succeed and created some interesting effects by adding PNG files with different Hue and Luminosity jitter I changed the brush size and it seemed to screw the placement of the two PNG files I was using - which was necessary for this to work The effect I was creating looked like this But then it looked like this - and it also looked like this with all the brushes I just created As you can see the flowers and the middle bits no longer aligned All the settings were right - I checked

All the settings are the same on both versions I've checked this

The colour in both is set to white Both are the same colour - just displaying different levels of transparency hence the lack of interesting effect in the Windows version

I just got all my folders that I'm working organised so I can easily work between them as a list on the Quick Access Panel in File Manager However, every time I access this window to File Manager through the File > Export or Save function AND I want to change to a different folder I have to scroll up to the top of the bar on the left to find Quick Access because by default itshows the Drive I'm using as highlighted which is (even though I have a Quick Access button for that too) down the bottom This completely negates the whole point of "quick access" at least through the portal though Affinity software as it takes me just as much time to find the folder going through the Drive etc Is there a workaround to this I can do in Windows or possibly something that can be updated in the future to alleviate this minor first world problem

I just said I'm using a mouse on windows

Might help if the category was name Memento Shader Brushes instead of Pixel Shader brushes This might be why I was thinking it was a standard brush and not one of the free sets Nonetheless I did upload a screen shot and gave the name of the category so it's kind of still one of the standard free ones and I would have thought it would have been clear enough to identify

So what! Will the Affinity Team know what it is? Will someone here know what it is? Quite possibly I reckon

Is there a point to this that I'm missing?

I'm using a mouse with Windows This is what it looks like on my iPad with Force Pressure Off (top) and On (bottom) I have no idea what the point in Force Pressure is on the iPad

Well then hopefully someone from the Affinity team will know what brush I'm referring to since I downloaded it from their store

It's one of the Standard brushes that comes with the software In category Pixel Shader Brushes As I said in the OP

Compare also these two exported jpgs The top one shows Windows applying the same Brush as above - the top is with no Force Pressure and the bottom is with Similarly on the second image it shows brush strokes on my iPad with the top line applying light pressure and the bottom heavy You can see the effects produced by the same brush are not the same between Windows and iPad

On this exported file the top brush stroke was done on Windows The bottom one is on the iPad - a nice effect I want to use for creating the effect of tree branches Both are Pressure Brush 1 - 200px - on the Windows version the Force Pressure is turned off and on the iPad I am applying a light stroke

I've got iCloud syncing to the cloud via Windows alright but I'm sitting here waiting for like 15 minutes so far for a 1MB file to appear in the iCloud on my iPad

I think what is happening here might be related to some pressure setting - which is absent from the Windows versions and can only be recreated by putting some settings on Random What I'm seeing on the Windows version is like what I get on the iPad version if I apply hard pressure on the pencil whereas before it acted as though light pressure and I'm starting to wonder if I imagined getting this effect on Windows but I noticed the button for applying pressure and if it's OFF which it when I'm trying this I should get the same effect as with the iPad and light pressure on the pencil

I just tried the exact same brush on my iPad and compare with Windows - what the Windows version is giving me because of unknown reason Two brush sizes 64px and 160px - Pressure Brush 1 The top one is Windows - bottom one is iPad and the effect Windows was also producing up until half an hour ago ! I thought maybe I had knocked wet edges on or something but I looked at the setting for that and it was off in the brush

I was using Pressure Brush 1 set at 160px (Pixel Shader Brushes) white across a black background to produce a nice tree trunk effect Only now it's suddenly decided to produce a load of garbage and I can't figure out whether it's a bug or I've knocked something ! Really annoying Yet more never ending problems with Affinity Design Suite The tree on the right is what the effect should look like The tree on the left is now what I'm getting and I am unable to recreate the effect on the right anymore

Yeah well I'm still waiting for a response about it And it might be related ? It a similar type of issue with things not going where they are supposed or the wrong thing being highlighted The summary of the problem I created this thread to discuss is explained thoroughly in the original post with no deviation Stop trying to police my way of posting

Raised it here with a video - maybe it can be moved to the bug section with this