MoonaticDestiny
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In the beta for affinity designer v2 when you slide the stroke slider to 100 and you want to input a value above 100 like 300 the stroke doesnt turn into 300pts. You can input a value but the stroke doesnt change to that value. It only changes from 100 and below. Nothing above 100 will change the stroke.
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6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
Completely close the app. Start it, and when you get the splash screen do a quick 1-finger double-tap on it.
Hey! That actually worked. How weird because I did that in the preferences and reseted my brushes and it didnt work but when I one finger double tap on the screen and turned on reset brushes it worked! Thanks walt! My issue has been fixed. ☺️
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3 hours ago, Natalie123 said:
I can‘t keep uninstalling and starting over.
I still dont have my persona brushes. 😕
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For the dials at the very bottom of the stroke studio that control that scale of the arrow heads can we fix the percentage symbol inside the dial? Currently, the percentage symbol is under the number when it should be to the side of the number. Below is an example of how it looks and how it should be.
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@Ash There wasnt a forum post for this topic but thank you so much for no longer nesting the pencil and brush tools. I appreciate it. One problem though. The Fill and transparency tools are nested. I dont like that. 😅 I like them as 2 separate tools. Ive never felt that they should be categorized together. They do 2 separate things, but I get the slider similarities they both have. Its ok. I'll just swipe to get to the transparency tool for now. Tool customization will happen eventually.
I was going to say that in the future when tool customization happens and yall are working on it please, please, PLEASE do STUDIO customization as well and not just tool customization. There are studios I dont use and dont want to see and I'd like to hide them and only use the ones I need. So dont just do tools. Do the same for studios. Tool customization and studio customization in the far future.
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I guess now that opacity and blend modes are on the layers studio, inside the more menu, you can remove the opacity slider and blend modes. They dont need to be there anymore. In the more menu you also have visible, lock, and solo. These 3 option can be added to the swipe left options. Lock is the only option out the 3 thats currently there at the moment. So you can add these 3 options to the swipe left option in the layers panel and then you can just get rid of them in the more menu. I attached a photo below.
You know what else I was going to say? Tags needs to be in the swipe left options. I think that'd be nice to have. I did a mock up below. I need to be able to select layers, group them, and then color code them without having to take the extra step of going into the more menu and going down to tags.
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On 3/29/2023 at 5:56 AM, Ash said:
Firstly blend mode and opacity settings have now been added to the top of the layers panel
This is so awesome. I'm so happy yall were already working on this. No more going into the "..." more menu button to change these options. I love, love the double tap on opacity and blend modes to reset everything back to normal. I also love how yall designed this because on my mockup the opacity slider and blend modes were too big and took up a lot of space in the layers studio. Youve condensed everything into 1 row without taking up too much space and it looks really nice! Now youve gotten me curious on how you guys can save even more space in other studio panels by not using long sliders (opacity slider in the color studio and stroke width slider in the stroke studio) and instead using a box value input 🤔 .
Im going to go off topic a little here but this is why the context menu in v2 should not have been turned into sliders on the left side of the UI because they just take up UI space and these sliders are just UI junk. The context menu in v1 was better because they were these little small circle dials that you could adjust their values by tap-drag over them without taking up too much UI space. You dont need sliders anymore and you dont need an icon to go with those sliders. A small little value input box with the word telling us what it adjusts works. I really do love how yall designed it here. Im so glad you didnt go through with my mockup.
My only issue is that the greater than and less than arrows "< & >" on the blend modes dont seem to be working. They dont change the blend mode and then sometimes they do change the blend mode but as you change it it goes back to normal. So these arrows arent working well. Also, can you add the tap and drag gesture to blend modes? Just how you can tap and drag on opacity to change the opacity can you do the same for blend modes so I can skim through my modes without opening the blend modes window. If not its ok. I dont mind opening the blend modes but thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for this. Been wanting this since v1 for so long.
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9 hours ago, Sean P said:
unfortunately you will have to disable it before drawing, otherwise you enact the brush tool's shortcut of using Alt to colour pick.
So this is normal?
Sigh. Its because I want to toggle through my brushes while ignoring the brush sizes so Im thinking if I leave the ALT controller on I can just go back to my brush library and toggle through my brushes WHILE still working on the canvas. But thats not possible because if i'm working on the canvas and the ALT controller is on its turning on the colour picker. I cant just have it on, work in my canvas, and toggle through my brushes. I have to turn off the ALT controller in order to draw.
This is an issue because I just want toggle through my brushes, ignore their brush sizes, and draw while this is on. I know this isnt the place for feature request but PLEASE add a feature that I can turn on in the hamburger menu of the brush studio where brush sizes are ignored and I can just toggle through my brushes all while drawing. That way I dont have to keep turning off the ALT controller each time I draw.
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This is why I use v1 and not v2. I cant not with these sliders. i prefer the context menu from v1. Definitely a set back.
@Ashyou need to go back to the context menu from V1 and get rid of these sliders and context menu at the top of the UI. I know right now is not the time for UI changes because youre busy with other things but it really does need to go back to the context menu being at the bottom of the UI like in v1. I'm gonna make a whole video eventually explaining why this needs to happen and itll justify the context menu being at the bottom.
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@Lee DAffinity Designer is the only v2 app I own. I already uninstalled AD v2 from my ipad and reinstalled it. I still dont have my brushes. Theyre gone and nothing can be imported. My imported brushes dont show up and the brushes on my account that i have to download for them to install in the app dont show up either. I have no brushes for pixel persona. I only have vector brushes.
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@Ashyou know what else? I need you to add "group/ungroup" to the swipe left options. You know why? Because I hate that I cant group my layers with the group button when you've merged the vector warp in with the group button. I cant just tap the group button and group my layers. A menu pops up with the vector warp options. I hate it. It upsets me because I just want to group something so basic and its like 2 steps to group something. So swiping left would make me less upset and it would solve the issue for now of the vector warp being grouped with the group button when they should be 2 separate buttons. Its the same issue with the duplicate button. Theres no duplicate or vector warp button in the layers panel so the solution for now is to add duplicate and group to the swipe left options.
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@AshBlend modes should not be a swipe left option. Blend modes NEEDS to be in the layers panel. I've talked about this before in the v1 forums about how the layers panels needs works. The "..." button is storing 2 things that needs to be put on the layers panel. The blend modes and the opacity slider. I cant not be tapping the "..." button just to get to my blend modes and opacity. I should not be swiping left to get to my blend mode. I need to be able to click my layer and then go to blend modes or opacity at the top of my layers panel. Thats it. its simple. Fast. no gesture or bread crumb trail of going into other buttons. Just click and change. Artstudio pro has it like this and so does procreate. I'm going to mock it for you and this is how it should be. Please bring out the opacity slider and blend mode from the "..." button, put them on the layers panel, and dont make blend modes a swipe left option.
Sigh. You can leave it in the swipe left options for now but youre going to have to bring out the blend modes and opacity slider and put them on the layers panels. its long overdue.
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@AshCan you please add "duplicate" to the new swipe left options?
Do you remember in a different post I had told you you need to add a duplicate button to the layer panel and you said that wouldnt happen until a later build? Ok. Having that duplicate swipe left option would help out and work out for now as a swipe left option. I dont even want the button anymore. Swipe left duplicate is fine. I found myself wanting to duplicate my layer so I swiped left and realized duplicate wasnt there and it made me sad. The duplicate option is available when you swipe left in the brush panel but not here in the layers panel. Kindly add duplicate in the new swipe left option in the layers panel.
Also, im really liking the swipe left gesture.
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I think I found a bug in the beta app of AD v2 on ipad.
So I set my pixel personal brush to 10px and what I want to do is toggle through my brushes so that they all stay at 10px. What i would do is bring out the toggle command controller and turn on the option modifier because thats the shortcut to have the same stroke size. When i do that it works. i can now toggle through all my brushes at 10px. The issue is when I start to draw while having the option modifier on it wont let me draw. INSTEAD it brings out the ink dropper. it wont let me draw. Its just the ink dropper wanting me to select a color. So i cant draw while having this option modifier on. I want to have it on so that all my brushes stay at 10px. If i turn it off I can draw but my brushes will change sizes. I dont want that. So when I turn on option I cant draw. The ink dropper pops out.
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heres a video showing whats happening.
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I was trying out some brushes that I have on my account and when I started playing with them the AD v2 app froze and crashed on me. So when I reopened the app ALL my pixel persona brushes were gone. Theres no brush category in my brush library. So I went into the preferences to reset the brushes and that did not work at all. So now I have no pixel persona brushes.
So what I did was I went into my AD v1 app and exported all that standard pixel persona brushes to import them into v2 but even that doesnt work. It says theyre importing and downloading the file but nothing happens and its just a blank library in pixel persona. So I have no way of getting my pixel persona brushes in AD v2. What do i do now? Is this a bug? Below is an image showing no brushes in the library.
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This is for AD v2 on ipad.
So theres an issue with the quick menu that i really dont like. Im trying to set up my menus so lets say I add Lock to the top right menu. But then I decide I dont want it there and want to instead put lock at the top left menu. Heres the issue. I cant just tap and hold on the top left menu and select lock. Lock is unavailable because its currently used up by the top right menu. So what i have to do is tap and hold on the top right menu, set lock to any other action, AND THEN i can go back to my top left menu and set it as lock because now lock is available. You have to change the action first for it to be available for other menus. I dont like this. I wish i could just tap and hold my top left menu, have lock be available on the list of actions even though its being used by the top right menu, set the top left menu as lock, and then have the top right menu go blank because I just filled up the top left menu with lock. So theres no undoing a menu for the action to be available. The actions are all available and its just a matter of setting them up regardless if theyre currently being used by a menu and having them change on their own. I hope i make sense. I just dont want to be doing this tap and hold undoing for the actions to be available. Just make them all available and let them change on their own if theres duplicates.
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@AshSo Im looking at the swipe left options and noticed only the geometries have icons to go with them and not the others. This is why I said in the forum post below to please add icons next to each option. It makes things look nicer and helps out the users through iconography. I so would have struggled reading add, subtract, intersect, and xor without icons but those icons really help me out in deciding what compound I want. Add to selection, delete, lock, blend modes, and rename layer need icons. Its look empty. Theyre naked. Something is missing and its those icons. it looks weird to only have icons for the geometries and not the others. A trash can icon for delete, a lock icon for lock, a pencil icon with the letter A for renaming, and im not sure what for add to selection and blend modes. You need to put icons next to these other options as well as for the options in the edit menu and document menu. You can read my post on icons for the edit and document menu in the forum post below.
Below is an image of the swipe left icons. I added icons to the other options. I also need you to add a line/rule between each option. I did it in the color red to show you.
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@AshI'm super happy about the compound options. Thank you so much for listening.
I have one issue though. The compound options dont appear on the compound layer. You specifically have to go into the compound layer and select the shape layer making up the compound to get the compound options. Thats so weird. Im not really liking this. Wouldnt you just be able to swipe left on THE compound layer and get the compound options? Its more work to go into the compound, find the shape layer making up the compound, and then swipe left to get the compound options. I get it though. Its specifically THAT shape layer that is making up the compound so the compound options should ONLY appear from swiping left on THAT shape layer. I get it. I think I have a better solution though.
What you can do is let the compound options from swiping left appear on the compound layer, the layer thats grouping both shapes. Allow users to swipe left on that compound layer and let the compound options appear. We select a different geometry AND THEN, heres the solution, let the app take me to the shape layer that is making up the compound so that I can then move the shape layer to adjust my new compound. Thats what needs to happen because i dont want to specifically swipe left on the shape layer that is making up the compound to get the compound options. I just want to swipe left on THE compound layer, select a different geometry, and have the app take me to the shape layer to adjust my new compound.
OR allow the compound options to appear on all 3 layers, the 2 shape layers making up the compound and the compound layer grouping both shapes. You select a different geometry, and have the app take you to the shape layer making up the compound to adjust the new compound. That way they all have the compound options and I'm not specifically going to a specific layer to get the compound option. I can get the compound options from all 3 compound layers.
Lastly, please add a double highlight when making a compound. I need that double highlight indicator to tell me that a compound has been made.
Geometry: Tap, Highlight
Compound: Long Press, Double Highlight
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@Ash When i swipe left and select blend modes my blend modes appear but they cover my layers. Look at the photo below titled v2. Can you make it so that the blend modes appear next to my layers instead? Look at the photo titled v1 below. In v1, the blend modes appear next to the layer and its much more nicer and convenient. Nothing is covering my layers. I'm able to see both my layers and blend modes.
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4 hours ago, iuli said:
could we hope that someday we’ll have “Tap Layer Name” to Rename layers too?On second thought, after spending a bit more time with it, the renaming is crazily fast already.@AshThe tap a layer name to rename your layer STILL needs to happen. Its something that was highly requested in the AD v1 forums. I think its so awesome that we have these new options when we swipe left. So awesome because taking 4-6 steps to rename a layer in AD v1 was a big no and now that i can simply swipe left and rename my layer is wonderful. Thank you. However, I still think you need to let users tap a layer name to rename it. Why? Because of our mindset and instinct. Users know to rename a layer you need to tap its layer name and then rename it. So when they find out that you cant do this basic action here in AD v2 its going to confuse and upset them. Theyre going to question why they cant rename their layer by tapping its layer name and then theyre going to go to the forums to get help on renaming a layer and then theyre going to discover that they can swipe left and a rename options appears. Theyre going to say, "Oh. So thats how you rename your layer. Why cant they just let me tap my layer name and rename it there?" Its going to happen. I already know it. And you know what else? If you just now introduced the feature to let users rename their artboard by taping its name and renaming it why cant you do it here? Youre not making us swipe left on the artboards name to rename it. Youre making us tap the artboards name to rename it. Why? Because thats what you would normally do to rename something. Mindset and instinct.
It needs happen. Its mindset and instinct to tap a layers name to rename it. The swipe left options are still going to be there but you need to also let us rename a layer by tapping a layer name. Please, please, please let users rename their layers by tapping their layer name in the layer studio.
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4 hours ago, ronnyb said:
the 3 dots after ANY menu command signifies there is a dialog box/window/pop-up for the user to interact with AFTER the command is selected from the menu, meaning there are still choices a user must make BEFORE the command is actually executed… ie, Save vs Save As…
good to know
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This is for all apps on ipad.
Please, please allow us to hide the "?" help button from the bottom right corner. Please!
You can not have this button here. If youre right handed your palm will sometimes rest on the ipad screen. While resting it your palm will be on top of the help button, triggering it, and causing workflow disruption. It is so annoying when I'm trying to draw and the help screen keeps popping up. I can't even draw in pixel persona! I refuse to draw because I just cant be having my workflow being disrupted. I can't. Its really annoying. Nothing should be in this bottom right corner. It is dead mans land. This only happens to right handed people.
I also feel very bad for left handed people because they have it worse with delete button on the bottom left. Theyre probably working and their palm accidentally triggers the delete button causing them to delete their layer. You just cant have buttons on these 2 bottom corners. You can't. This is bad design. Think about it. We hold the pencil and place our hand on the ipad screen. Our hand covers the bottom corners of the app so anything under it will get triggered causing unwanted workflow disruption. This is problematic. Nothing should be in the bottom corners. This is not a desktop computer where you can have a mouse that can click on buttons all around the interface. This is an ipad screen with a hand resting on it where certain buttons can not be under your hand/palm.
You need to take the "?" help bottom and simply move it next to the edit menu at the top OR you can HIDE it in the preferences like the undo and redo buttons. I much prefer hiding it. I need to be able to hide the "?" help button. Its a simple fix. Its a huge issue. This is very problematic. I've been asking for this since the v1 forums. Please. This is bad design that can easily be fixed. A simple hide solution.
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Stroke Slider Value Input
in [ARCHIVE] 2.4, 2.3, 2.2 & 2.1 Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas
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sorry for not specifying. im using ad v2 beta for ipad. yes, i enter the value and press enter. no change. it stays at 100. should change to 300 but nothing.