Dylanear

Seems to work with Open CL turned off in the preferences.

First time trying to use A P 2. Crashes repeatedly simply trying open a basic 768x1024 jpg exported from Capture One. May be I'm using a new RTX 4080 Founder Edition, it has the latest drivers? Dell Precision 5820, Xeon W-2150B cpu, 160GB ram.

I'd love to see a good, elegant 3D paint/material feature. But I understand why people don't. Photoshop bloated and bloated. I too want my photo/paint editor to be lean and fast and not cluttered. But given the state of 3D on the PC I think it wouldn't have to hurt that much, and sure, make it a plugin/option so everyone is happy. I think it's only going to get more common, support for 3D content creation and for 2D designers to have amazing 3D tools to end up in 2D imagery, which in turn would be great for matte painters. Even in a stand alone app that displayed the 3D side and talked to Affinity Photo side by side. Maps displayed and editable in 2D in Affinity Photo and in 3D similarly editable displayed with good modern shaders/materials in a "Affinity 3DCreate" window beside it. If you could support the new open standards like alembic, UDIMMs, USD, Hydra, OSL, MaterialX, , keep it lean and fast (at least on modern hardware), use the same interface style as the other Affinity apps and price it reasonably and you'll have a winner! I grieve that Substance got bought by Adobe. I was about to start learning that and since that announcement I just don't have the heart to learn an Adobe tool after years of trying to rid myself of anything Adobe. Other options like Mari are quite expensive. So if you could make something that'll do serious 3D paint with 3D layers and projections, but keep it as fast and as easy to work in as Affinity Photo and I know I'd buy that!!! I sure don't want to "buy" a subscription to Substance now. Mari is too expensive. Affinity, there's a product here I think you should consider! Pretty please! Take! My! Money!