Winx

ok, cheers for letting me know. my current way of working therefore is to create whatever i need in a greyscale group within the main affinity file, save that out as a bump file, then load it for the normal map asset. it's an extra step, but at least it works thanks again.

thank goodness for this normal map generator asset. would have been nice to have this built in as standard, but at least we have this. is there a reason why it has to load a bitmap file, rather than work live on a layer within the grouped asset?

As an Ex-Illustrator user, I find it really mind-boggling that a very useful feature is completely missing from Designer. I just wanted to warp some text to give it some perspective and there is NO way I'm manually going to do that. it's such an imprecise way to go about it. My question would be why are affinity avoiding adding this rather popular feature request? Surely Adobe doesn't hold the IP on warping vectors? So come on Serif folks, just grasp the nettle, we'd all love you more for it if you spent some time developing this feature. You can do it!