Affinity Photo fill mode enhancement please

[Subclavius]

Using Affinity Photo to create curves (pen mode) - when objects on the same layer are filled, the intersecting area is always empty (no fill).  This is equivalent to 'Alternate (even-odd)' mode in Affinity Designer.  It would be very, very useful for me to have the 'Winding (non-zero)' mode from Affinity Designer available to counter this problem.  I use the pen mode to trace objects - writing in particular, and where strokes intersect there is always a blank area which has to be later manually filled.  I would like to make a plea for this enhancement which on the face of it looks not too dificult to implement.

[rogual]

I would love to see this added too. Until then, I have a workaround, although it's rather cumbersome: you can export the curve to SVG, open it up in a text editor, add fill-rule="nonzero" to the <g> element, save, open the SVG in Affinity Photo, copy the path and paste it back into your original document, where it will now have the correct fill mode.

(If you have Affinity Designer, then pasting to and from there might work too, I don't know.)

[Subclavius]

I also have Affinity Designer available (the apps aren't that expensive) which I occasionally use.  It's proved really useful here though as I simply copy the APhoto layer to the same-sized document in ADesign, alter the fill mode and copy back into the APhoto document.  Seems like such a simple enhancement to add though.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Subclavius said:

It's proved really useful here though as I simply copy the APhoto layer to the same-sized document in ADesign, alter the fill mode and copy back into the APhoto document. 

Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use File > Edit in Designer, make the change, then File > Edit in Photo? No need to copy layers around.

 

[Alfred]

3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use File > Edit in Designer, make the change, then File > Edit in Photo? No need to copy layers around.

Wouldn’t it be simpler to simply have a choice of fill mode available directly within Affinity Photo?

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, Alfred said:

Wouldn’t it be simpler to simply have a choice of fill mode available directly within Affinity Photo?

Of course, but I wasn't commenting on that. I was helping a user improve his workaround workflow.