beforethelight Posted December 30, 2019 Posted December 30, 2019 This is my first post to Affinity forums and I am new to Affinity coming from Gimp. I would like to use Affinity Designer because the workflow is really nice and the exports are much better than I found in Gimp but I am having some issues getting to the features I need. I am a game programmer who inevitably runs into the need to make some art on my own. Most often this involves combining many small images into one game asset. In my current project the artists have made all of the art assets as components and I can combine and manipulate them to make ships, stations, settlements, etc... In gimp for an issue like this, I would write a plugin to replace all the similar named items with a different image. Red (33) to Green (33) and then I would have the same ship in green for a simple example. Some of these stations are quite complex and have dozens of the same image placed. I looked around the forum for an answer to this and from what I can tell there is not a replace all feature baked into Affinity Designer. I also found there is no scripting interface for Affinity Designer. I tried to edit the saved files and found the references to the images are in plain text in the .afdesign files but any outside saves breaks the file. Even if no edits were made to the .afdesign file, if I save it externally it breaks the file. I read the other forum posts from AD reps saying they will not share their file format with us, and I don't expect them to, I am just hoping there is some workaround. Now the official questions: 1) Is there some replace all feature I am missing? 2) Is there an API or programming interface not mentioned? 3) Is there a workaround that I can manipulate the reference location externally (text editor) or internally (Affinity Designer)? All I need to do is change the reference name from Red, Yellow, Green, Blue (COMPONENT INDEX) to the other color names and export those images. Thanks for any assistance Quote
Staff Callum Posted January 2, 2020 Staff Posted January 2, 2020 Hi Before the light, Welcome to the forums We don't currently have a replace all feature I'm afraid. We also don't have an API at the moment however its something we would like to do in the future. As far as I'm aware there is no work around you can use to manipulate the reference location of your images either unfortunately. Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
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