Vector Shadows

[Guest]

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.

[fde101]

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.

[Guest]

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.