AP - Drawing and perspective guides

[mvanzyl]

AP offers a perspective transform, but does not offer perspective guides (1,2,3 point, isometric, etc).

Many competitors offer guides with snapping options built in that makes creating, aligning, and/or adjusting perspective much easier.

 

This has been a requested feature for many years (see below) in V1 and does not yet seem to be anywhere in Designer or Photo for V2....

 

 

[loukash]

5 hours ago, mvanzyl said:

isometric

affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/grids_axonometric.html
affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/grids_axonometric.html

[Scodman]

BIG plus one here

I work in animation and this is the feature that would make Affinity a viable photoshop alternative in my industry. At the moment AP is useless for animation for this exact reason. Perspective guides are a crucial tool for digital background artists, and storyboard artists.

the perspective tool seems only to be actually useful if you already have a shape or vanishing point guide to match to. Which the software doesn't currently do. 

Something similar to what Procreate offers in this area would change the game completely  

[2ddpainter]

21 hours ago, Scodman said:

Perspective guides are a crucial tool for digital background artists, and storyboard artists

 

in case you may not know, there are also Tools for that out there
which work with any Graphic Program
(even Vector, if you want, i own only "Lazi Nezumi" so can only
speak for that)

For PC there is "Lazy Nezumi"
https://lazynezumi.com/rulers

For Mac "Hej Stylus"
https://hejstylus.com/features-in-detail

 

 

[loukash]

6 hours ago, 2ddpainter said:

For Mac "Hij Stylus"

Interesting, thanks!
The smoothing section seems mostly redundant for Affinity, since it can be set up directly per brush and context toolbar.
But the Rulers are amazing!
The Perspective will require some practice…

[2ddpainter]

12 minutes ago, loukash said:

Interesting, thanks!
The smoothing section seems mostly redundant for Affinity, since it can be set up directly per brush and context toolbar.
But the Rulers are amazing!
The Perspective will require some practice…

your welcome, fine that it is helpful

I know that many graphics programs have their own stabilizer.

But these Tools work in any Graphic Program and in some
others it is quite useful. For example, i use the "Lazy Nezumi"
stabilizer in FlamePainter 4.

 

[Scodman]

hey that's interesting - thanks for the link! So this works like, what, a plugin-type deal?

Can't wait to have a good look into it

 

[2ddpainter]

7 minutes ago, Scodman said:

So this works like, what, a plugin-type deal?

can only speak for "Lazy Nezumi" because I am on Pc.

It is a separate, stand-alone program and has the ability to
to capture the application you have chosen.

From then on you can turn the functions on and off.
Here is a small video
https://lazynezumi.com/faq

There are also a few tuts on youtube

[Scodman]

had a good look at Hej Stylus on the mac - so much to love! such a simple and elegant design with heaps of features.

Unfortunately the dealbreaker for me is that it sits on top of the drawing software rather than being integrated with it. What this means is that when I zoom, rotate or pan my canvas - which I do constantly and instinctively - the perspective guides and vanishing points do not move with it. So ultimately this doesn't end up being of much use to me - which is a huge shame.

thanks for the tip though! So close.