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    Dinosaur Pattern Styles and Brush Assets

    in Resources

    Posted

    Notes:
    Edited original 
    a. Fixed some problems with the original patterns
    b. Reordered the filenames and split the btimap patterns into two groups of 15 styles.
    c. Added 14 new patterns to create a second style set (Dinosaur 01, Dinosaur 02)
    There are now 30 patterns...needed for  accompanying brush set

    Pixel Personna - Major Issues

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    There are a couple of things you could try

    a.is protect alpha selected on context bar
    b. check brush opacity/layer opacity
    c. are you painting with the same colour of the parent object (this one catches me out!)
    d. are you trying to paint with a background colour
    e. is the layer you are trying to paint selected
    f. sometimes I get caught out by trying to paint in an object only to find out its not selected and I am painting somewhere else on the page
    g. is there something selected?

    [1.9.0.932] Symbols and copy/paste issue

    in V1 Bugs found on Windows

    Posted

    Just to let you know

    I did some more digging....I found a way to make it work!

    If you turn off 'copy as SVG' in prefs The Symbol will copy and paste like they used to...including pasting into the symbol box...Strangely I believe this was on in 1.8.5 and has been for a long time...:)

    So doing the opposite of the previous settings to get it to work...if you know what I mean...

    Or

    having 'copy as SVG' on in prefs breaks copying symbols between docs

     

    [1.9.0.932] Symbols and copy/paste issue

    in V1 Bugs found on Windows

    Posted

    Yep no problem...I tried some of this on Sunday..

    1. When I just copy the symbol from the pattern builder onto a output grid (base textures and styles) In 1.8.5 it was fine..AD would just move symbols between files as a symbol object...In the 1.9.0 it created some very strange results. I was wondering initially, whether there was  issue with opening 1.8.5 files into 1.9 and mixing the 2 but there seemed to be more to it....

    2. I could not see any reason why it would rasterise the compound vector, other than in this case it is a blend/transparency object
    3. When I selected the copy/Paste options I did get different results.

    But I can run through those again:

    This is what I get with Dino 5

    a. Paste special:inkscape.svg=as video .no symbol
    b. SVG=breaks
    c. Unicode text =breaks
    d. PDF = very small not correct size
    e. PNG=no result
    F. Device Independent Bitmap=no result
    g. Serif Persona Nodes= no result

    I could get the image/symbol to paste correctly with 'Paste without Format' but it was no longer a symbol

     

     

     

    [1.9.1.943] Crash when selecting same colour and grouping result

    in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on Windows threads

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Sean P said:

    Thanks for that - I just reproduced it with Dino06 and looked at the crash report on Mac (its easier to investigate than Windows) and they're both the same crash so I've passed that over.

    With regards to the other issues I'll take a look into that and take a look into your other thread you've linked to. :)

    Ok thanks for the quick response....I am sure it can be solved!....:)

    Just one other thing I noticed.. I am sure before (1.8.5) if you copy and paste symbols between files they were added to the symbol box in new file...seems to have stopped!

    [1.9.1.943] Crash when selecting same colour and grouping result

    in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on Windows threads

    Posted

    No Problem..

    They are quite complex at the moment....I am trying to make dinosaurs!:)

    1.dino05..was the original multi layered version It's quite a complex symbol..but you have seen the results in the video. There is also a strange issue of pulling a symbol out of the box on to the page...it appears to do the same breaking issue..

    I have no idea why it is rasterising the compounds textures.

    2. dino 06 Is a simplified version still working on it.. But this the one I set up to be same colour per object so I could select same and pull out the groups..It does work but sometimes AD just folds..

    but have a play around...with the files

    Test_files.zip

    [1.9.1.943] Crash when selecting same colour and grouping result

    in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on Windows threads

    Posted

    Hi 

    Thanks for the latest beta..that was quick!:)

    I was trying to get to the bottom of this issue yesterday as part of occurring problems with symbols and copying/paste...but as there is now a beta I will report it here!

    If you refer to this thread regarding symbol issues I thought it would be a good idea to try out the new select same:fill colour to extract the objects to a new layer from within a symbol.

    It mostly works but yesterday... everytime I acquired the selection and then grouped ...AD crashed...(might be unique to the file!)

    Process
    a.Build a grid using symbol as base with containing rectangle
    b.Set up objects containing compound curves for texture pattern and apply duplicate colours to each object
    c.Add objects into the containing rectangle then:
    d.using symbol containing several grouped objects but with 4 repeating colours.
    e.Select object then select same:colour
    f.Group selected
    g.Worked mostly but also crash (NB:the vector objects are compound curves)

    I have attached the crash report

    8623018e-84c8-4ceb-ae9e-955ab6551b7c.zip

    [1.9.0.932] Symbols and copy/paste issue

    in V1 Bugs found on Windows

    Posted

    Evening,

    I am getting some very strange results with symbols in the latest version of AD. Appears to be breaking on the simple process of copy and paste. 

    Using a basic grid format for testing seamless patterns. Constructed a multi-layer seamless pattern
    When Completed I attempted to copy the file for further editing onto an older output grid
    If I use a group and copy/paste between files it sort of works also If I use 'Paste without format' I can get the symbol object to be stable!


    NB
    Using a combination of previous files (AD1.8.5) and latest version...so essentially opening previous file and copying a symbol created in AD 1.9 to that file.  It is breaking....with some weird results
    a. some of the elements (vector get rasterised)
    b. The scale is way off
    c. vector objects contained within a rectangle are released or duplicated

    If I break the symbol or use a group it works as copy and paste should 
    I am using complex multi-layered symbols

    Video to follow!..

    I just recorded the process so you can see what is going on:)

    Styles Dinosaur and Reptile Skins

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    1 minute ago, pioneer said:

    Stuart,  Thank you for these, I will look at using two rectangles one from set1 with a png background where I can use another rectangle with an infill background in conjunction with your style.  Thank you so much.  Cheers John

    No Problem!...I am just putting together a quick assets/Ad file from some vectors that may help you..won't be long!:)

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