How to Bend a Straight object at its center in affinity designer 1.8

[chillywilly]

13 hours ago, Wosven said:

@chillywilly

Since @Hens already showed the tools needed, here a speed test to create the earlier images.

With more structure and planned design, you can perhaps achieve what you need.

For one of the design, I would use another app, it would probably be faster...

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Other app:

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Wow, thank you @Wosven! I take it that you used the same techniques as Hen? The techniques Hen showed are really nice for emulating perspective changes with groups of lines, but they don't adjust vector groups with perspective calculations. You are showing a perspective shift in the purple line art. I'd love to hear how you accomplished that in Designer.

[chillywilly]

13 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Try search "Power Duplicate" - Ctrl+J.

https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/duplicate.html

 

 

Thanks for showing me the Power Duplicate trick! That's a great one.

[Wosven]

Yes, like Hens, I duplicated a donut, converted it to curves, and used the tools to distort it. After this, duplicating again to add shadow and light.

[Boldlinedesign]

@LondonSquirrel@R C-R i didn't mean it literally that Designer had not been updated at all since 2015... but the list of updates you both referenced are small additions added over many years. Maybe impressive if done in a year or two, not 10. I can appreciate Affinity wanting to build things well from the ground up, but they neglected the most commonly needed tools for things that while visionary, did not "put food on the table".  It's hard to enjoy the revolutionary shared file method, and account setup when I still can't warp text, use a vector eraser, create 100% vector brushes, have boolean operations that don't crash the app and create dirty geometry, etc. I'm sure in another year or two when 2.0 is released, our disagreements now will be meaningless because 2.0 will finally have the common tools we all expected in version 1.0.

[chillywilly]

9 hours ago, Wosven said:

Yes, like Hens, I duplicated a donut, converted it to curves, and used the tools to distort it. After this, duplicating again to add shadow and light.

 

Thank you @Wosven. Your effect turned out decently, and you and @Hens have shown me that in a pinch there's a lot I can do with these techniques. There's clearly a gap in functionality because true perspective shifts and warp effects offer a level of precision that look more "real." At least now I understand what Designer has to offer in the current state.

[chillywilly]

1 hour ago, Hens said:

If the outcome doesn't need to be vector you could use "edit in photo" and have the nondestructive live filters extend the possibilities.

Cool idea. In this case I was designing a logo, so I needed it to be vector.

[Dazmondo77]

3 hours ago, chillywilly said:

Cool idea. In this case I was designing a logo, so I needed it to be vector.

I agree 100% with everything Boldlinedesign has added to this discussion, and it appears we probably have a very similar workflow, for me Vectorstyler has enabled me to crack on and just get stuff done without even having to think about it, I just put all work together in Pub (StudioLink) and copy paste back and fourth between Pub and VS rather than coming up against a wall with what can be achieved in Affinity or moving over to Illustrator CS5 just for a bit of warping

So totally recommend adding VectorStyler to your workflow as we may be waiting another few years for a trickle of missing basic functions in Designer

Also see vid grab below to get an idea of the vector power of VectorStyler as a companion app to Affinity on a working job 

 

[Dazmondo77]

Anyone interested in VectorStyler See the link below

1 hour ago, SureWeb said:

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Hope it's ok to share. I have no affiliation whatsoever.

A few Affinity users have purchased VS via the coupon site and it looks all above board, everyone who needs a pure vector workflow needs to grab VectorStyler now 

 

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Dazmondo77 said:

A few Affinity users have purchased VS via the coupon site and it looks all above board, everyone who needs a pure vector workflow needs to grab VectorStyler now 

As I mentioned in that topic, I could not complete the purchase using Apple Pay (or using my credit cards) because it kept telling me I had to enter my first & last name, so for the moment I can't take advantage of that offer. Bummer!

[chillywilly]

On 11/6/2021 at 8:28 AM, Dazmondo77 said:

Anyone interested in VectorStyler See the link below

Thanks for the discount on VS. I tried it out and found that its feature set is much closer to Illustrator, so I bought it. Between these two apps I think I'll be covered for my vector needs. Thank you so much!