Jim57 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Is there a way to make a pen stoke that has 2 different end caps? I'm working on a tutorial on making trees. As in the attached picture, the tree starts with square end caps, then adds rounded corners at which point the end caps are still square, but step three shows the end caps on the tips of the branches to be rounded, yet the end cap at the trunk base of the tree is still square. I would like to know if there is a way to accomplish this aside from making all the end cap strokes rounded to start with and covering the bottom stoke with a square white box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 I would group the trunk and branches and leaves and then clip the group. Jim57 and NotMyFault 1 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLiner Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Or another way just use LAYER-EXPAND STROKE on the trunk (starting with a stroke with butt cap) as the last step, then use the corner tool on the top as desired Jim57 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLiner Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 or just use a rectangle to begin for the trunk and stokes for the arms. Corner tool the top of the trunk and done. Jim57 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Or.... make small line at the bottom of the trunk (just duplicate it and shorten from the top) then use the Square ending for that second shorter line. Jim57 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Add a Square Solid stroke end at 33.33 %: Or vice versa, use Butt Caps and add a Circle Solid end. NotMyFault, Old Bruce and Jim57 3 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 38 minutes ago, loukash said: Add a Square Solid stroke end at 33.33 %: Or vice versa, use Butt Caps and add a Circle Solid end. Did you check in pixel view? On iPad, it seems to truncate decimal digits, even if I enter formula 1/3, and caps don’t match perfectly. Edit: works on iPad, too. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Just now, NotMyFault said: Did you check in pixel view? No, but it passed my PDF/X-4 export litmus test all right… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Did you check in pixel view? Works alright in v1: 14 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: On iPad, it seems to truncate decimal digits, even if I enter formula 1/3, and caps don’t match perfectly. Why oh why am I not shocked…? In v1, the display will be rounded to 33, but I'm of course entering 33.333333 Edited January 16, 2023 by loukash see below Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, loukash said: Why oh why am I not shocked…? Actually strike that. Works for me on iPad as well. Simply entered 33.333333 % manually. NotMyFault 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 works actually on iPad, I had something wrong in my test. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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