Custom Gradient and a warp tool for Affinity Designer.

[industrialstudios]

This is something I used to use a lot when I used Macromedia FreeHand (before Adobe bought them). In FreeHand I could take a say three strokes with different colors, assign it whatever attributes (all matching aside from color) I wanted then have then select all three and say make a gradient. I could assign the number of steps in between each original stroke (again they all had to match) to make a custom gradient that I could edit the shape of. See Attached. Also a warp tool for vector shapes or vector groups. I know there is a skew feature, but that doesn't always work.  I'd like to be able to use say the node tool on a group and using a modifier key let me do basic bending of an object. 

Gradient_Feature_Request.pdf