please add sketch like multiple fills

[Daimyou]

Sketch can have multiple stacked fills on the one object or symbol, including solid, gradient, textures (what they call a fill pattern).  pattern is selected from your drive and then can set Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile.  the opacity is adjusted for each fill.

multiple fills really allow flexible interesting textures that you cannot easily do in Designer.  interface is very easy to use and clean. 

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, Daimyou said:

Sketch can have multiple stacked fills on the one object or symbol, including solid, gradient, textures (what they call a fill pattern).  pattern is selected from your drive and then can set Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile.  the opacity is adjusted for each fill.

multiple fills really allow flexible interesting textures that you cannot easily do in Designer.  interface is very easy to use and clean. 

As a workaround to easily add multiple fills to a base layer:

• for every fill, create a rectangular shape (or any other suitable layer or shape), larger than the base layer (excess size will be clipped).
• give it the fill you want and opacity
• nest it as child layer to the base layer (clipping position).
• Put the base layer into a group when required

This method preserves the vector status, and avoids unwanted rasterization when exported.

[fde101]

On 1/11/2022 at 3:52 PM, Daimyou said:

Sketch can have multiple stacked fills on the one object or symbol, including solid, gradient, textures (what they call a fill pattern).

In Affinity Designer this can be done using the Appearance panel.  You can also have multiple strokes (though sadly the ability to offset the strokes from each other is quite missing for the moment).

Note that you cannot set an angle on a gradient fill or add a bitmap (image/texture) fill directly from the Appearance panel: for either one, use the fill tool, but have a fill selected on the Appearance panel when doing so.  The fill tool will allow you to manipulate the selected fill on the Appearance panel, including changing it to a bitmap fill.

Bitmap strokes are also possible, including multiple layered bitmapped strokes - same idea: create and select the stroke in the Appearance panel, then with the Fill tool, set the type to Bitmap using the popup "Type:" menu on the context bar.

[Daimyou]

On 1/12/2022 at 2:00 PM, fde101 said:

In Affinity Designer this can be done using the Appearance panel.  You can also have multiple strokes (though sadly the ability to offset the strokes from each other is quite missing for the moment).

Note that you cannot set an angle on a gradient fill or add a bitmap (image/texture) fill directly from the Appearance panel: for either one, use the fill tool, but have a fill selected on the Appearance panel when doing so.  The fill tool will allow you to manipulate the selected fill on the Appearance panel, including changing it to a bitmap fill.

Bitmap strokes are also possible, including multiple layered bitmapped strokes - same idea: create and select the stroke in the Appearance panel, then with the Fill tool, set the type to Bitmap using the popup "Type:" menu on the context bar.

thanks fde101, appearance does almost what I need.  but what about each appearance items opacity?  that needs to be adjustable for sure.

please add opacity to the appearance panel. thank you.

also please allow the use of PSD in the bitmap fill.  I have tons of PSD textures.  Sketch has no problem with PSD files in the texture fill.

[fde101]

1 hour ago, Daimyou said:

what about each appearance items opacity?

Click on the color of the stroke or fill along the left side of the Appearance panel and the opacity can be adjusted within the resulting popup.  

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work very well right now; the adjustments should be applied to the appearance, but it seems to be broken.

 

For gradients, you can use the fill tool, select a node of the gradient, and adjust the color and opacity of that node from the Color panel - that works.

You can also make the adjustments using the popup on the context toolbar with the gradient selected in the appearance panel (and the fill tool selected) - that also works.

But what appears to be the same popup when accessed directly from the Appearance panel and changes don't seem to take effect.

 

I don't see any way to adjust the opacity of a bitmap fill or stroke that is actually working.

 

Solid colors seem to adjust just fine, including in the Appearance panel.

 

EDIT: the issue with missing opacity control for bitmap fills was previously reported: