Do Smart Objects Like Feature Exist?

[JokerMartini]

Does Affinity Photo have a Smart Objects like feature yet? Where I can import a afphoto document one or more times into another afphoto document, and scale/move/rotate it around the doc. Then when i make changes to the original reference document, those changes propagate into my main doc?

 

[ashf]

When you place a document on the canvas, it become "embedded document" and behave like Smart Objects.

[loukash]

9 hours ago, ashf said:

When you place a document on the canvas, it become "embedded document" and behave like Smart Objects.

It can get even "smarter", if not to say weirder:
You can place an Affinity document as a linked document into itself!
Every time you save, the linked objects updates itself accordingly.
An infinite loop.
∞

[Dean Reardon]

18 hours ago, JokerMartini said:

Does Affinity Photo have a Smart Objects like feature yet? Where I can import a afphoto document one or more times into another afphoto document, and scale/move/rotate it around the doc. Then when i make changes to the original reference document, those changes propagate into my main doc?

 

Yes you can and it's a great way to work with mockups (live filter perspective mockups especially).

• Open your mockup template
• Add a standard rectangle to the approximate size needed for the mockup
• Use the rectangular dimensions and open a new document with those specific dimensions
• Add your picture to the new document and save it (ie: picInsert)
• Go back to mockup template and place "picInsert" 
• Then just add the perspective live filter to the placed picInsert and set your perspective for your mockup
• You can then just double click the placed "picInsert" layer to open up the document in a new tab and then just replace the picture or add in a vector or whatever without having to deal with perspective issues