[Affinity V2.0]

VECTOR WARP & SHAPE BUILDER.

YAAAAY

[Affinity V2.0]

Designer beta forums are cleared!

[Affinity V2.0]

I love the "Gros projet en cours" translation.

[Affinity V2.0]

3 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Something big is coming

My body is ready.

[Affinity V2.0]

1 minute ago, Twolane said:

But but but I thought Affinity was D.E.D.

Remember when Freezer came out of the sea on Namek after everyone believed he was dead.

[Is AFFINITY dead?]

Wait for the next MacBooks, maybe we will have some news for desktop versions.

Ventura is out on 24th October.

[Affinity V2.0]

I went to website homepage, and base price is now 64€ instead of 54€.

Another sign that something will come up soon?

[Is AFFINITY dead?]

I'm patiently waiting for the Game Boy Advance version of Affinity.

[Is AFFINITY dead?]

3 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

Yet another week passed by…

And, still no sign of Affinity Publisher for iPad…

People like me really really wants Publisher now, not next summer…

See you next week, bub.

[Is AFFINITY dead?]

2 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

How will you know that can’t have inside information from the Serif Labs company?

I’ve got friends working in the software business in Nottingham, and, they regular meet staffs from Serif…

Publisher for iPad will NOT be released this year - I would like to have that information from Serif official…

If you have serious information from inside Serif, why asking for confirmation? You are very self-confident about this, then confirmation is optional for you.

[AMD Radeon RX Hardware Acceleration]

15 hours ago, Nox said:

Adobe products use OpenCL on AMD GPUs, they have zero issues running on there. DaVinci Resolve uses OpenCL, but surprisingly it doesn't have any issues on AMD either.

Blender switched from OpenCL to HIP on AMD GPUs, because this API is more reliable, versatile, faster, future proof and very similar to CUDA. Also OpenCL as a whole has really big problems in general, it's hard and annoying to implement for hardware manufacturers, that's why everyone sticks to 2.0. OpenCL 3.0 is a big reset which makes most features optional because Khronos (standardisation organisation) has realized 2.0+ was a big mistake.

Serif has 3 options to handle this:

- fix the OpenCL bug like all other creative apps, make use of OpenCL 3.0's feature query function in the future.

- think straigh forward, future proof and switch to a better API (HIP and CUDA)

- or just do nothing and blame AMD for not supporting a broken API

Obviously the latter option does not fix anything.

Well, it's pretty summed up. I guess this problem will be resolved with 2.0. We're not out of the woods yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[AMD Radeon RX Hardware Acceleration]

2 minutes ago, ziplock9000 said:

I have a whole host of other GPU accelerated applications that run just fine on AMDs cards. Serif chose to use that API, they were not forced. After more than a year they still have not chosen an API that works like everyone else has.

The problem is firmly in Serif's court far more than AMDs.

 

I do understand your point but I must imagine switching from OpenCL to any other API must be very long to code, am I wrong?

[AMD Radeon RX Hardware Acceleration]

2 minutes ago, Mel_P said:

Depends where you think the problem lies??

AMD is providing the driver for the cards we use. The driver is bugged, so Affinity had to disable HA. If AMD doesn't fix the driver, it's solely AMD's problem.

[AMD Radeon RX Hardware Acceleration]

5 minutes ago, stranded said:

Soooo I guess this still hasn't been resolved yet? I'm on latest RTM build of Windows 11 and still can't enable hardware acceleration on my RX5600.

Went here to have some news, and we have the same problem! AMD is really slow.

[Is AFFINITY dead?]

Be patient, folks. It's summer time for everyone, so things are going slowly.

[Is AFFINITY dead?]

1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:

Sorry, we are focussing our efforts on a major release (new features and fixes) and consequently have not done any minor patches for a long time, as you say. But no not dead.

As said in a previous post, you don't have the grade for telling things about it. I also know that you stopped teasing things as it disappointed people before, but maybe you can talk about next "finished" features that will be released?

[When will the next beta version be released?]

When the 2.0 will be announced, it will be like the England Team won a second World Cup. 😄

[Cursor is not updated properly]

This bug is happening to me since months, Windows AND macOS versions.

When I want to use a studio on the side of my screen, my cursor stays with the "Resize" cursor for stretching the panels once I have crossed the gap between the work area and the panels.

I tried to take a screenshot, but the cursor disappears on the screenshot when the bug occurs. It's maybe a part of the answer.
The cursor appears when I'm recording my screen.

[Construction workers favourite tool]

Disclaimer : I wasn't inquired by Milwaukee to create this artwork. It was only for myself.

Also, don't start a war between Makita and DeWalt fans, please 😁

[Right-click menu is not scaled at right size]

Hello!

I found a problem inside Designer. I use a 4k monitor, and I use the "Zoom" UI feature of Windows to match my first monitor resolution.

All UI elements are scaled correctly, but my right-click menu is not.

I attached two screenshots. on the "Rightclickmenu" image and "ADmenu", the UIs are at the right size, but not the right-click menu.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.10.0.5)]

48 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

A change in version number (e.g., 1.8 to 1.9 or 1.9 to 1.10) generally indicates that the file format (.afpub, .afdesign, .afphoto) changed enough that the older version can no longer open the files created by the newer version.

The explanation when the 1.9.4 beta changed to 1.10 was that some of the changes made for Performance were causing that to happen, so they changed to 1.10.

All right then, I didn't know about that rule for the files.

Waiting for the 1.11 with some good surprises 😉

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.10.0.5)]

On 7/10/2021 at 9:41 PM, MattP said:

Changes This Time (not many as we're heading towards RC soon!)

I don't really get the point to switch the app to 1.10 as there are not so much big changes and new functions as previous update from 1.8 to 1.9. 🤔

It looks like a fix update, not a milestone.

Why the version number suddenly changed from 1.9.3 to 1.10?

[Affinity Suite Stickers]

59 minutes ago, Axelazo said:

Amazing, I loved the quotes, I can't belive the powerhouse I got for only $75 (Photo, Designer and Publisher)

I'm gonna print this stickers, hope you dont mind

Thanks!

Well as long as you don't resell them it should be OK.

[Affinity Suite Stickers]

1 minute ago, William Overington said:

What exactly are stickers in this context please?

Would they be on self-adhesive labels with a peel-off back, or are they used electronically, sort of folk emoji, or what please?

I like the way you have chosen a third colour for each of them to go with the Serif colours and a fourth colour for the background.

William

 

Thanks for your feedback, they are self-adhesive stickers. Didn't produce them, I only made these mockups.

[Affinity Suite Stickers]

Hello everyone,

I made 3 stickers some time ago about the Affinity suite. I only shared them on Dribbble and Instagram, but now I think it's time to do it on this forum.

What do you think of it?