matt.baker

It’s perfectly legitimate to close a curve which only has the two end nodes, even when that ‘curve’ is actually a straight line. If you use the Node Tool to drag on the closed curve thus formed, you’ll curve one of the sides and open up a hole in the middle.

And, here a video showing the new rotate-on-plane feature of the Move tool.  A new shape is created into a grid, using the "Edit In Grid Plane" mode.  Then, with the mode on, any rotations maintain the grid plane perspective.
 
RotateOnPlane.mov
 

Thanks for the suggestion Walt.
It's more for an easy option to snap to midpoints for the example below with a line segment that's not necessarily midway between a the whole shape's bounding box.
 
Snapping candidates similar to the following would be amazing:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-50383F73-4F23-4F70-B4FC-52D5748D80AF-htm.html
Crosses the into the realms of CAD features.
 

But why only the midpoint of a segment? What if I want to snap to thirds of a segment? Or divide a segment into fifths.
An Add Nodes Per Segment command would enable one to create snap candidates at any fractional increment along a segment.
JET

There is no Tangent snapping per se but I wonder if this would work for you

Psuedo Tanget Snapping.mp4  

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UPDATE 1:
Update with a WIP on a interior shop:
 

Beyond Horizon is a 2D side-scroller game focusing on story and exploration both on land and within the stars. Explore dungeons, towns or fight space pirates with your ship, while uncovering the lore and the secrets behind the Sigma and the original race, all of this is just Beyond the horizon.
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Beyond Horizon follow Aito after his grandfather suddenly has to leave, 3 years later with no return he tries to save up everything he has in-order to afford a spaceship to go after him. 

While on a routine mission to find a missing cargo supply he comes across a stone that once touched absorbs into Aito giving him powers along with a map to 8 location. Unknowingly awakening an evil force to his location.

Now to save his town the only option is to flee, they attempt to lure the Sigma away with his friends in a stolen spaceship, now the only option is to run. Following the map to each location in the hopes to stop this Sigma killing the system. 

About the Project:

Beyond Horizon is a small project I've been working on for a couple of years now, starting off as a 2d pixel art game before moving into this mixture of vector and semi-realistic textures that I started to play around with while working on an illustrated calendar.

I'm currently working on this project solo so production on the game has been slow (along with changing a lot of things required to re-start from the ground up) and I felt like I should start sharing the project.   WIP:   Below are some screenshots and videos from my work in progress of the game.   UI + Combat version 2:   World 3:     Player House:           If you can help support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondhorizongame (if you can't thats fine share the word about the game:   Also Join the community: https://discord.gg/WdP4dyg   Than you for checking out the game and I hope you have a great day.   Game links:   Website: http://bit.ly/BeyondHorizonGame
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I've been fooling around with this idea of a legged oven for some time. It started as an unremarkable sketch for Inktober, but I liked the idea and am bringing it further. I am doing some moods and concept sketches in AD/AP, which might end up as guides for a 3D scene.

Mouse scrolling and auto scrolling while making a selection seems to stop the selection.
Edit: Hmm, also happens in the main release so may be my machine.
Edit 2: Verified on another machine running AD.

 

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Hi Matt,
Thanks for the files! I've reproduced the issue here and will get it reported to development.

Hi Matt,
Good spot  and thank you very much for the great recipe! It seems like this has been going on a while on Windows - I'll get this passed onto development!

Hello,
"it was a good idea at the time" - I almost wish I didn't start this as it was very time consuming.
Anyway, I think it came up alright. Thoughts?



 

Yes, sorry. When we updated to this latest version the skin lost some of the distinction. We are still looking to improve this and other visibility issues.

Affinity-Designer Question
For  technical drawings I need the co-ordinate origin on the side on the bottom left.
Maybe it is also to be put possibly the origin also arbitrarily?
Many thanks nicely sometimes.
Topsi

Hi Topsi,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Currently it's not possible to set a new origin point. This should be available in the next update (v1.7). 

Please could the colour chooser dialog remember and use it's last position when reopened - even if it's just for the session.
I use this as my default option when selecting colours and I keep having to move it out of the way as it obscures the centre of the canvas.

Please could the colour chooser dialog remember and use it's last position when reopened - even if it's just for the session.
I use this as my default option when selecting colours and I keep having to move it out of the way as it obscures the centre of the canvas.

Hi mattb5906,
This is a known issue. Use the vector shape tools to create a shape the same way you would create the selection then press and hold CTRL (⌘ (cmd) if you are using a Mac) and click the thumbnail of the shape layer in the Layers panel to create a selection from its contents.

And, here is a video glimpse of some of the improvements coming to the Node tool.
 
NodeTool.mov
 

Thanks for the file mattb5906. I'm not getting any crash here. The file opens correctly for me on both the retail and latest Beta (1.6.5.109) on Windows (same on Mac), not sure why it's crashing for you. I'm checking this with the dev team.

Hi mattb5906,
Sorry the delay getting back to you.
Here's a link to upload the file.

Would be nice if You finally add this feature to use Selection Brush Tool (W) with anti-alias option. I'm suprised that this option is not implemented in release 1.5 and beta versions.
Similar effect could be achieved using Select > Feather (1px) for example, but this is not so comfortable in use.
 
+1

This is one of those annoyances that all of us have encountered from time to time, and a quick way to convert just the text from artistic text to text frame and vice versa would be GREATLY appreciated. For just a few items, the copy-and-paste song and dance does work well. But for any number above what can be counted on one hand (that's five for most of us), it gets very tedious indeed.
 
My thought would be to have a right-click -> convert to... option, where a new layer is created in the destination format, using just the default settings for that format, and the text dropped into it. Nothing more is needed. Then the user would be able delete or hide the the original layer as he/she sees fit, and format the new layer to their heart's desire.