murray

Hmm it seems that we are almost 1 year along the journey and looking at the toolset, we still don't appear to have any of the functionality that makes drawplus a great piece of software available in Affinity Designer. It's a shame really that in all this time the following don't appear available : - Vector eraser tool - Slider for adjusting curve smoothing (node reduction as an adjustable / pre-viewable slider) - Vector pressure sensitive tool that doesn't use outline strokes but creates and performs those boolean operations at run-time the way the Vector Brush tool works in drawplus If there were another format that could enable better cross-application compatibility between Affinity Designer and Adobe CC applications that would be an ideal outcome. The main problem I have with using Outline Strokes vs Runtime Booleans for a "vector brush / eraser" tool(s) is that outline strokes continue to get very CPU / GPU / RAM intensive as the user continues to draw a single "blob". To try this for yourself, start drawing with the existing "Art Vector Brush Tool" in AD and see how long you can go around in a circle before your computer either crashes or becomes terribly unresponsive. Do the same test in good old drawplus x8 and see how long you can go before it crashes... the answer.. as long as you want in drawplus! AND not only is it more efficient on system resources, the result doesn't require additional steps to get it back to a vector curve shape.. outline strokes have to then be processed further to convert those strokes into a vector shape, which is rarely an accurate conversion in comparison. Maybe my expectations are a little bit wild, to think that the company responsible for producing these great tools, would still have the ability to implement them into their new software that was touted to replace drawplus, idk.. most people seem content with what you've released so that's a positive :)

So incase it were not clear, I'm somewhat unimpressed by the fact that.. without warning Serif have decided to deprecate the DrawPlus series and instead put all focus on a Windows version of Affinity Designer. That alone speaks worlds to how poorly the customers such as myself have been treated.. we were enticed into buying a software line believing that things would continue to evolve and grow.. and now I find we are taken back to working with primitive tools offered by the Affinity line... Discontinue a product line.. that's cool.. your products.. your choice Don't make this public till sales have started to slow down on the final release.. little shady but again not the end of the world. State that there are no plans to allow customers of the product to import their work into the new product line that's replacing it!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS? Why is there no update that states clearly .. DrawPlus file imports will be included with the first release of the Windows Affinity Designer product line?

I hope for the Windows release that this is included or it makes the whole "PSD File Compatibility" selling point worthless.

Considering that DrawPlus x6+ has included a vector eraser.. and this is anticipated as the product to continue on development beyond that line for windows soon... the lack of such basic features as this and contours are a joke. We don't even have the ability to use a slider when cleaning up / smoothing curves to reduce nodes. The only thing going for this product is PSD support.. take that away and i'd throw it in the trash vs its predecessor DrawPlus. If the features from drawplus aren't Transferred into this product.. Serif are kidding to think people will buy into this. Why would anyone want to downgrade to the newer version.. it should always be an upgrade! Genuinely unimpressed!!