Hank McCoy

Hey MEB, I’m looking to distort a group of vectors. The group consists of a rectangle, and a  text object (like a label). How do I free transform or manipulate each corner of that group's bounding box to make it appear in perspective? 

That works on a single shape, but not with groups of shapes (such as a complex logo) or text. This is a good workaround for single shapes (mostly 4 cornered shapes), but it’s not a true perspective / distort solution. 

Hey MEB, I’m looking to distort a group of vectors. The group consists of a rectangle, and a  text object (like a label). How do I free transform or manipulate each corner of that group's bounding box to make it appear in perspective? 

Still waiting for this. 

I agree, general envelope warping tools are only of the only useful features still lacking in Affinity, and they are implemented really badly in illustrator. I still find myself still firing up Corel on my junktop every now and then to envelope text sometimes, haha. 

This is a glaring omission in a vector based tool. Any ideas when 1.7 will be released and will it deffo include this?
In Fireworks you can select the skew tool and drag one of the bottom corners of a square outwards for example to achieve this affect, it is quite a common task:
 

Hi Hank McCoy
The distribution options are only available when using the Spacing alignment option (furthest to the right of the four choices), as the other options are locked to auto-distribute.
Change to Horizontal or Vertical Spacing and you'll see the Alignment options are no longer greyed out!
This is the same behaviour across iPad and Desktop, for the info of other users.

Hi yeshua20,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
It's not yet possible to distort/warp text in Affinity Designer. A Mesh warp/distort tool is already on Affinity Designer's roadmap to be implemented later.

One request on this... I've been in search for a replacement for the Illustrator "Free Distort" tool, which you can apply to text and maintain vector quality. This is different than a perspective shift or even the tools present in Affinity Photo. Will this be possible in 1.7? Is there any indication of where this is in the roadmap? I can't find anything other than Illustrator that does this well. 
Example from illustrator:

Seems there's already a topic that addresses my issue, so I won't start a new one but  post it here:
I've recently delved into making isometric scenes and I have a few questions:
Making a custom "aspect lines" with the grid is a bit tedious - any plans on making an "vanishing point guideline tool"? And is there a way to rotate/skew/transform your artwork (vector or raster) to fit your dimensional plane? Hope that was complicated enough
Is there like a roadmap somewhere with maybe rough estimates of what is being developed and planned?
Thank you,
 
Aron

I would also like to know the answer to this question.  I love using Affinity Designer on PC (so far it's a million times more intuitive to use than AI)  but not having a Free Transform seems like a bit of an oversight.  
 
p.s. Free Transform tool should also respect your selection within the Node Tool.  Currently to select some nodes and scale them you need to use the Transform dialog box.

Hello,
 
I was wondering if within Affinity Designer is there a "Free transform tool" to allow perspective distort with shapes, this is something that can be done within illustrator where you can take two points and can move them together or further apart with equal distance like the example below.
 
You can kinda do this with the "Corner" tool set to straight but this is set to only one angle when perspective distort can change the angle.
 
Thank you for your time and I hope you have a great day.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Hank.
The Affinity apps don’t seem to have a hex input feature yet.

Hi Hank McCoy,
Welcome to the forums  
Unfortunately there's currently no way to manually input hex values, but it has been previously requested in the thread below and something we may implement in the future!