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I wonder the same. I've never had any affinity app being slow (not v1, nor v2). Granted, I work on a pretty powerful pc now, but also when working on an older laptop it was always super fast as well. I never worked on machines without a dedicated GPU though, so that might be different. I believe having lots of fonts installed (at least on Windows) was problematic at the time when using v1 for some, so although I think this was fixed, it's still best to not have thousands of fonts installed on the computer in general and just turn them on or off in font software when needing them. So what I would check is: - Are you using a dedicated GPU (graphics card), like Nvidea? And is it turned on? - Make sure you don't have a huge amount of fonts installed. - Do you have enough memory? - Although with vectors resolution of the file shouldn't matter much, the amount of points (vertices) in the file does matter for performance. Normally this should never be a problem, but if for some reason you have everything hand drawn and have milions of points per curve that eventually all adds up system resources and so slows down the program. I'm not an expert on optimizing Affinity as I never encountered any lag-issue, but hope this still somewhat helps.

Thanks for the nice compliment Stuart. That's appreciated!

Last night I made a test drive on Rough Terrain with my new City Bus. Had to do it 🙂

I've completed designing, 3d modeling, surfacing/texturing and rigging a 3D City Bus for my upcoming Animation Short Film. Completely ready to animate, including rigs for the doors and to drive and steer the bus. Affinity Designer was used for all logo and texture designs. Here's a demo video

Hi y'all, Today I've published a new video with visuals for music I made recently. Graphics were designed in Affinity Designer and animated in Moho Pro. Don't forget to listen through headphones or with good bass bins Hope you like it!

Guess than it was a glitch in the matrix. Probably something went wrong with the internal x flux-processor multiplier pipeline tranquilizer. Makes the second video extra valuable to watch though

This is such a great use case and execution of using the spiral tool! Very inspiring! 😀

Nice that you made a video of it. The second video I've watched, but for some reason the first video doesn't play?

Lovely @j3rry ! Makes people smile and melt! Happy eastern to you all too!

I agree; making it free for educations is a great idea!

Thanks @Patrick Connor and @Ash for your professional responses. Really appreciate your contributions and clear explanations here on the forum. Although I, like obviously several others here and on other channels, have a difficult time in believing corporate ways after take overs (by multiple experiences) and only believe it when it's a few years later, it's of no use to stay negative (for nobody. That's just a waste of energy) and it's best to give it the benefit of the doubt and just go with the flow. Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond thoroughly. It shows that you are involved and that's really something. It's also well appreciated that you didn't sensure this thread and kept it open. At least as far as possible for what I can see. As that sometimes must be hard for you I can imagine. Let's hope everything works out well for everybody here and this turned out to be just a bump in the grand scheme of things (Which it probably is anyway, as are most things in life! haha 😀) and turned out to be groth in the end everybody is happy with!

No offence and we're probably thinking the same, but I don't agree exactly. It's not 'Never say never'. Speaking out loud what your principles as a company are I think is a good thing. It's keeping these principles and promises and have some spine in your back that's what's strongly failing here. Simple as that. If you are so lame to just leave your own principles out of pure greed, while betraying the user base that helped you be in this position, you're worth nothing and don't even get where you were coming from. Which is bad. It's disrespectful to say the least. People and companies like me trusted this company and feel betrayed, because we are. Not because the company said their principles out loud (used as marketing when they needed us because that's what attracted their clients in the first place), but because the company left these own principles in a blink of the eye when the money came. Total lack of integrity and spine. And also lack of long term business sense and even a sense of understanding what is the reason for existance of this product range and your user base. It doesn't even matter what they will or won't do in the future; somebody who cheats cannot be trusted and will cheat again. And again. As it's already proven that their words mean nothing and cannot be trusted.

You can talk whatever you want, but you as a company PROMISED us without any fussy wording that you would NEVER going to let another company aquire you. You stated that LITERALLY. And yet here we are, not even that much later. Your words mean NOTHING. Spineless. Companies that treat clients like this and fail to even respect their own principles, that were the company and product value to begin with, are not worth any more trust. I left instantly because we just cannot trust you. You sold out.

Yet another company not keeping promises and selling out ('we will never') and having fluid worthless principles. Spineless. Disrespectful to clients that helped the company grow, but will leave soon. Sad business policy. Trust was gone as soon as you as a company broke your own promises. Yet another sell out going for money, not understanding what caused the value to even be there. Short sighted.

It's a lot of work for sure. I am working hard on this film, which will be somewhere between 5 and 8 minutes long, for a few months now (with some other projects done and a lot of learning in between) and it will take a few more months to finish it, but I've learned so much by doing this and also spent a lot of time to do research and create workflow documents for myself for future projects to not having to reinvent the wheel every time, because there's quite a lot involved, especially in the rigging department. Some things are difficult at first, but by learning how it really works and doing a lot of research and practise and making notes things get easier over time. Next project things will be a lot faster. But it's very fulfilling for sure. The harder something is to do, the more fulfilment in the end if it worked out well and less complicated the next time! Thanks!