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Just for fun :)

This isometric illustration project was probably one of the most difficult I've ever worked on but absolutely worth all the effort in the end. Big shout out to Kevin House for taking the time to provide the walk-through and resources to get it completed 💪
 

I have a feeling this feature might be impossible without first implementing the true vector brush engine. I might be wrong though. But both of these are super hard misses from Affinity.

I'm not sure how well this has caught on yet, but a non-trivial subset of procedural graphics could in theory be implemented using the Appearance panel - specifically, a subset that does not rely on combining multiple shapes.
Imagine adding a grid-forming layer to the Appearance panel that replicates the object in a configurable grid pattern, and so on.
Lots of room to leverage this mechanic.

+1 I’ve often wondered when this was coming to Affinity as well, it’s a no brainer for professional, non-destructive workflows…

Count me in on requesting this feature for Designer as well! The illustrator appearance panel transforms, distort and copies feature really shines in this workflow in particular... and it's still editable text.
 
 

I just wanted to update this post with great news - for me anyway, lol, because I found the reason why my shape builder tool did not work as expected. It just came to my mind it must be a rendering issue. So I went to Settings, Performance and changed the *Renderer from the Default (Intel(R0R Arc(TM) Graphics) to my inbuilt NVDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU. And..............Bingo! Awesome!!!!
Is Affinity going to add me to the Support Team now. I joke 🤣!!! Just wanted to pass the help along. Later!

Hi @retrograde this is the expected behaviour, when holding down CMD the status bar will update to show the modifiers for the node tool, these modifiers work in conjunction with CMD being held down. You need to hold down CMD to toggle the Node tool then CMD+Alt to convert the node. 
The node needs to be selected to convert it, whilst holding Alt, so the double click sounds like you are:
First Click - Selecting the node Second Click - Converting the node I hope this helps.

Right?! Finally………….

Great thanks.
This is how it should have been implemented from the start. 🙂

Apps: Designer, Photo and Publisher
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
Auto Apply (Colour Panel) Colour Picker to Selection
Previously when you used the Colour Picker available from the Colour or Stroke Panel it would first add the picked colour to the well next to the picker and then you would be required to apply the colour manually by clicking the well.
We are now changing this to automatically apply the picked colour to the selected object, so you’re no longer required to select the colour well.
If you would prefer not to apply the selected colour (i.e the previous behaviour) you can hold Alt down whilst picking the colour (note this Alt behaviour is currently only available on Windows).

Very nice quality of life improvements for the pencil and node tools.
I played around with the Auto Close feature and found that the minimum distance between end points for the auto close to kick in was quite minimal between Near and Far methods on macOS, definitely not as much as you show in the diagram above.

Thanks @retrograde I just tried it on my PC with W10 and iPad-no issues.
I am not sure what it is with my HP laptop & W11 that is showing these "strip" selection indicators. It's really frustrating 'cos shapes underneath other shapes don't show it's selected. It only happens with the +Add option and -Minus seems to be working okay.

I'd be quite happy if the growing list of "known issues" (bugs) that we are continually being told have been "passed to the developers" were actually dealt with and fixed! (Especially the "silly" ones, like missing icons, incorrect labels/translations, UI problems and the like.)

It would make a lot of sense if we could use a symbol as the fill source instead of a bitmap. Then you could edit it on the fly and see the result instantly and, of course, fully scaleable....no brainer for me!

Yes, Motion is not the best tool for vector you need to cut parts in order to do simple animation, for now I'm just using Wick Editor or Apple keynote and plan to get Keyshape. Too bad some online editors are subscription based as there is some neat tools that even let you generate html/css code and clicked base animations.
Still, it would be great if Affinity can develop new tab with everything for vector animation and UX and offer it as additional app full price  most of the current design works involved web and video, but I understand that development takes lots of time.

Your platform not having AI plagerism software built in is the ENTIRE reason I'm here in the first place. If someone wants to use plagerized (and, listen closely... un-copyrightable) images in their works, that's fine. But go with another platform and leave one or two apps like this one for artists who produce REAL artwork that they plan to market, and copyright. Alllll original, creative artwork, made by humans as it should be, without the company "reserving the right to use all material for machine learning". Put AI into the software and I'm gone, looking for another app that won't take my 25 years of art and rip it all off in ten seconds.

Thank you. I added the book to my Wish List. I did purchase a preowned copy of the Affinity Designer Workbook - am just waiting for it to ship. Hopefully it will be here within the next week or so.

I was one of the contributors to the Affinity Designer workbook. It's unfortunate that it's unavailable... but if you're interested, I wrote my own pretty comprehensive book (460 pages) on Affinity Designer for Packt Publishing. It covers up to Version 1.10 and it is still available on Amazon if that fits the bill for you. I cover all of the tools and interface in detail and there are 3 separate workshop chapters on creating 3 real world assignments, a logo and 2 types of illustration approaches.
Here is a link. https://www.amazon.com/Running-Affinity-Designer-easy-follow/dp/1801079064/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1631772053&sr=8-5

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

Textured Backgrounds
Added 12 texture vector backgrounds 
AD File only

Monster Club Backgrounds.zip

Textured Backgrounds Grunge
Added 15 texture vector backgrounds 
15 stacked grunge layer vector composites in a single file 150 x225 mm (Black Fill)
AD File only
Samples as below

Based on @DelN s work with stacked coloured textures here
Should be enough grunge!...copy out composites to separate files... break up as required!
 

Grunge Texture 02.zip

Thank you for this. It is faster than adding each one individually.
Though if you have numerous shapes, some with colors you want to keep and some with colors you don't want to keep, this will add all of them to the swatches. And then you need to individually delete the ones you don't want. I guess creating a new document and copying over the shapes you want and then using this method would work.
Regardless, I think the swatches panel could use some improvements

Hey guys,
just wanted to say thanks for this great software. Its a gem compared to other big competitors. 
I am also a software developer and know it is important to the team to get good feedback! I really love working with your Suite - its intuitive, responsive and can do nearly everything needed in my daily work.
Surely it's not perfect - and can never be. But thats the case for all existing software because everybody is using things a little bit different and has different expectations - but overall Affinity is doing great with its small team and deserves big thanks! 
Daniel

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