Warping curve in symbol is not applied to all symbols.

[jpfouch48]

When applying a warp modifier to an object in a symbol, the warp is not propagated to all symbols. It is only applied to the symbol that made the modification. The warp is showing up in the layers for each symbol, just not displaying the actual warp in the object. I would expect to warp to be duplicated to all symbol objects.

• Windows 11 22621
• Hardware Acceleration Enabled
• AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
• AMD radeon RX 6700S

Warp test.afdesign

Edited November 25, 2022 by jpfouch48

[Aammppaa]

Confirmed.

The Warp Mesh is applied to the Symbol, but the nodes / handles are not updated in Sync with other instances.

[4dimage]

That's right, but hmmm - one might see this as a feature. You can design a symbold, use it multiple times in your layout. But every instance might be warped individually. It's like individual position and rotation. Isn't this rather a bonus than a bug. Or didn't i understand the problem?

New approach

v2-symbol-warp-usecase.afdesign

 

[Aammppaa]

We should ould be able to do both.

If the Warp is inside the symbol (and the symbols are Synced) then it should affect all symbols. 

If you want to warp symbols individually then the symbol should be in the warp. 

Anything else is inconsistent with existing behaviour. 

[jpfouch48]

I agree and could see it both ways but a symbol I see as a replication of an object, and not a variation. I could see the latter being a feature of a symbol to add variation but would not expect that to be the base feature. 

[farawayspices]

I would love to see the option of having warp applied to symbols, not having this is a major disappointment. 

[oscarlosan]

On 11/29/2022 at 9:40 PM, farawayspices said:

Me encantaría ver la opción de aplicar warp a los símbolos, no tener esto es una gran decepción. 

if you group the mesh in a parent symbol, you can do what you need.

[4dimage]

@oscarlosan

That would be nice. I tried several grouping scenarios with symbols which none of them worked like expected.

May you please provide a simple Designer example file here that shows your solution 🙂

[stokerg]

Hi @jpfouch48,

Thanks for reporting this.

I've just logged this issue with the Dev team  

[farawayspices]

On 12/7/2022 at 5:55 AM, stokerg said:

Hi @jpfouch48,

Thanks for reporting this.

I've just logged this issue with the Dev team  

Any updates? Thank you!

[Aammppaa]

I just revisited this issue today in v2.3.1 and it appears to be functioning correctly?

I made a symbol and duplicated it. Then applied a Warp Group to the curves inside the Symbol. Both instances of the symbol received the Warp Group and deformed correctly.

So is this bug fixed?

[MEB]

Hi @Aammppaa,
Officially no. It's still on the backlog - nobody has been able to recreate it from scratch since v2.2.0.2005.
I also haven't been able to recreate it in the current release version nor in the beta (both macOS and Windows). It's possible same other change(s) may have fixed this. Currently we only have a couple old files where the issue is still visible (no deformation) when we open the files.

[Aammppaa]

Thanks for the detailed update.

[jpfouch48]

1 hour ago, MEB said:

Hi @Aammppaa,
Officially no. It's still on the backlog - nobody has been able to recreate it from scratch since v2.2.0.2005.
I also haven't been able to recreate it in the current release version nor in the beta (both macOS and Windows). It's possible same other change(s) may have fixed this. Currently we only have a couple old files where the issue is still visible (no deformation) when we open the files.

I've done some very basic testing to see if I could reproduce and have not been able to do so either with 2.3.1. The file uploaded in the original post still seems messed up but I suspect that is because it was created with the older version.