Guest Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 While I love being able to easily mix bitmaps and vectors in Affinity apps I often find that there are times where I NEED hard, crisp shadows that can be rendered/exported as solely as vector graphics (SVG, PDF) without having to rasterize the effect. Simple outer/inner shadows are easy enough to accomplish by duplicating, offsetting, scaling and setting a darker colours/gradients for the curves, but isometric and long/block shadows are entirely different beasts and often leave me with no alternative but to return to Illustrator to perform blends/offsets, use the Astute Graphics and 3D/isometric plug-ins, and simplify (reduce the node count in) the geometry. Being able to create these effects (with a REASONABLE NODE COUNT) in Affinity Designer would be really helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Those could both be done with extrusion, they aren't really traditional shadow effects. EDIT: Sorry, just saw that there actually IS a shadow effect on the first one. The second one looks to me like an extrusion that has been toned to look like a shadow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 19 hours ago, fde101 said: Those could both be done with extrusion, they aren't really traditional shadow effects. EDIT: Sorry, just saw that there actually IS a shadow effect on the first one. The second one looks to me like an extrusion that has been toned to look like a shadow. You can do these any number of ways (using a combination of 2D blends, offsets, skews, unions, node clean-up, etc — or as you mentioned using vector 3D extrude functionality), but neither (let alone other more interesting vector shadow fx variations) is currently possible in Affinity Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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