Hey there! Running Ventura on an i9 Macbook Pro with freshly-installed Designer v2, as well as an iPad Pro 12.9" running new Designer v2 on iPadOS 16. I was so, so excited for this update because I use warp tools a lot in other programs, and a non-destructive warp/liquefy seemed too good to be true. And, at least for the time being, it is. : ( I realized I replied to a thread in the wrong OS's forum about this, but if you've got a shape with multiple gradients inside of it, the vector warp mesh has no effect on the gradient itself. I saw someone (unaffiliated with Serif) suggest that this was a feature and not a bug, which would be a huge bummer, and I'd be inclined to believe them if it weren't for the fact that flattening, rasterizing, and exporting said object *all* still do not allow you to warp its contents. In fact, loading in a random picture from my photo gallery, I couldn't even warp that. I mean, I could warp the borders, but not the image. It functions this way on the iPad as well. Either way I have already tried restarting my machine, reinstalling Designer, fiddling with hardware acceleration settings, scouring the manual, and reviewing the topics already posted, but I hadn't seen any responses yet.
To replicate the issue, open a new document and make a rectangle or any shape you'd like. Add a new fill and pop a gradient or two in there. Now, attempt to use the vector warp tool. The borders of the shape will move, but the gradient is fixed in place.
So...this is a bug and not a feature, right? : ( I was pumped to use the vector warp tool to be able to make abstract freeform gradients, but if it will only warp plain shapes, that's...kind of an enormous bummer. I haven't seen anyone actually representing the company comment on this yet, so I'm holding out on the chance of it being a bug and hopefully I'll actually have a way to make the art I'd like in the future.
First screenshot is a shape that hasn't been flattened, second one is a shape that has been rasterized, and the third one is a shape that has been exported as a .PNG and then re-imported as an image file.
