Slettli Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Hi. I often design seamless patterns and would like a way to test if I did it correct. In illustrator I tested this by fill a large square with my pattern. hannah and ARTGIRLJENNL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted September 21, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2014 If your patterns are images then draw a square and use the gradient tool in Vector persona and change the type to bitmap. Designer will then ask for and image as a pattern fill. Use the tool handles to scale your image and change the extend type to mirror. scatterbrain73 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slettli Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 If your patterns are images then draw a square and use the gradient tool in Vector persona and change the type to bitmap. Designer will then ask for and image as a pattern fill. Use the tool handles to scale your image and change the extend type to mirror. if my patterns are vector then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slettli Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 And I dont want to mirror but repeat my tile Wiredframe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted September 21, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2014 If your patterns are vector then you will have to wait until we have written that feature. If you don't want to mirror then just use a different extend type. Slettli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slettli Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 Thanks for quick reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candacew Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 This is a feature that I would also like to use. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardini Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Add me also as one requesting a vector pattern feature in Designer. This and being able to expand a stroke into a usable amount of anchor points would be the first two features I'd ask for. frankielovespattern 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Hi. I often design seamless patterns and would like a way to test if I did it correct. In illustrator I tested this by fill a large square with my pattern. I posted a short video tutorial on creating your own seamless pattern but in raster. Look at the post "seamless raster patterns" in the tutorials section. This may help for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Please not only simple patterns. We like to see an implementation of all 17 plane symmetry groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Please not only simple patterns. We like to see an implementation of all 17 plane symmetry groups. Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group HAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 HAHA aHaHa What is funny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 aHaHa What is funny? If you think I'm gonna tackle 17 different patterns in my little video, you're mistaken! I'll let everyone else come up with those solutions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 If you think I'm gonna tackle 17 different patterns in my little video, you're mistaken! I'll let everyone else come up with those solutions! You misunderstood it, this topic is about a feature request for seamless vector patterns, not about your video! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoran Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 +1 for being able to use vector patterns :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 This topic should be merged with this other one.Forums are a real crummy place for feature requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 You misunderstood it, this topic is about a feature request for seamless vector patterns, not about your video! This topic should be merged with this other one. Forums are a real crummy place for feature requests. I disagree. The other thread is about a feature request for seamless vector patterns. This thread is about testing seamless pattern designs. Forums are fine for feature requests, as long as you have a 'sticky' thread where nothing but requests are posted, with discussion of those requests being posted elsewhere. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 This thread is about testing seamless pattern designs. Seeing as the first thing the author did after getting a reply was asking about vector pattern swatches, as did people after them, the topic is now about vector pattern swatches. If it was not, this topic could’ve been closed, since the original question was already answered. Forums are fine for feature requests, as long as you have a 'sticky' thread where nothing but requests are posted, with discussion of those requests being posted elsewhere. So you’re saying forums are fine as long as everyone follows a specific set of rules that must be manually enforced? By that metric, we don’t even need a forum, let’s just all write to a shared Google Docs document. As long as everyone follows the rules, it’ll work just as well. The reason we’re using a piece of (forum) software is to solve a problem. Forum software sucks for this type of problem. You can’t search reliably (lots of noise), and even if you could, people often don’t do it. It’s also hard for maintainers to find these types of duplicates and act on them. The proof that forums are crummy for feature requests is that this forum is a mess. Don’t say something is fine “as long as people do something”. People aren’t doing that something, and that is exactly why this isn’t fine. People won’t read or follow your rules, so you need a way to enforce them. We have solutions for this kind of problem. A forum is not one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatterbrain73 Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 If your patterns are images then draw a square and use the gradient tool in Vector persona and change the type to bitmap. Designer will then ask for and image as a pattern fill. Use the tool handles to scale your image and change the extend type to mirror. I will say that I love being able to transform my pattern on the fly this way. It beats having to tweak the pattern through a dialogue or create a new one that conforms more closely to what I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeswarts Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Adding resizable, infinitely repeating seamless vector backgrounds to elements/artboards would be useful. Seems like there might be performance issues, though… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 10 hours ago, affinitydesignerfan said: Seems like there might be performance issues, though I doubt it. With me, Illustrator never had a single hiccup with patterns, and I frequently pushed it to the max of its abilities. mikeswarts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 22 hours ago, affinitydesignerfan said: Adding resizable, infinitely repeating seamless vector backgrounds to elements/artboards would be useful. Seems like there might be performance issues, though… No, as Vitor pointed out, Illustrator has no performance problems with these. Nor does PhotoLine. Actually, I hope that when Affinity finally gets proper vector patterns, it will be implemented similarly to PhotoLine: nice on-screen widgets, and patterns support a combination of both bitmap and vector. Even text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannah Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I love patterns, and having them available as a resizable fill is something truly comfortable. I am happy to have switched to AD, but before I did, I found something incredible in Illustrator : Once you filled a shape with a pattern, you could manipulate the shape in a mesh-like style, meaning you could apply perspective to it or make it appear like it's on a curved surface. (See fish scales on the image). It blew my mind and enabled me to do stuff i wasn't even dreaming about. So, yeah I'd love to request that feature from you amazing people at Affinity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.