TheLunaPark Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 I think it would be nice and quite useful to have the option to set the Start and/or End of a stroke to have a different colour to the actual stroke. For example, you could have a black line stroke with a green circle at the Start and End to illustrate the start and finish of something, all done with just one stroke rather than putting in the circles manually. Thanks and keep up the great work! loukash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Via Designer (persona), you actually can: Add more strokes with different endings via Appearance panel: 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...
Old Bruce Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 15 hours ago, TheLunaPark said: I think it would be nice and quite useful to have the option to set the Start and/or End of a stroke to have a different colour to the actual stroke. If you use the Node tool you can see the end node by the red colour plus you can have the little red line to show the orientation. 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 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 To bring the multicolor endings to front, the trick is to make the top strokes virtually invisible by giving them an "impossible" width of 0.0001 pt or so. Correspondingly though, e.g. the yellow start/end must be enlarged by whopping 10000000 % in this example: 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: you can see the end node by the red colour Um… that's about something completely different. 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 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 hours ago, loukash said: To bring the multicolor endings to front, the trick is to make the top strokes virtually invisible by giving them an "impossible" width of 0.0001 pt or so. Correspondingly though, e.g. the yellow start/end must be enlarged by whopping 10000000 % in this example Impressive workflow stunt 👍🏼 But fiddling with so many settings … maybe it is faster to use a separate shape per node 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 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Just now, NotMyFault said: maybe it is faster to use a separate shape per node Um… styles…? 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 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 I just tried to create the smallest possible curve and add a stroke, and of course run immediately into trouble (iPad) ellipse shape with 1px radius and 4px stroke (outside) acts erratic. one node shapes are impossible to use (no stroke visible) When you use node tool to move 2nd node over first, they get combined and vanish from rendering so much fun, my intuition is 100% incompatible with Affinity UI 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...
NotMyFault Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 20 minutes ago, loukash said: Um… styles…? First you must have one 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 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: I just tried to create the smallest possible curve and add a stroke What does it have to do with this topic? 2 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: First you must have one Now that I've tested how to proceed, from scratch it takes … a minute or two. 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 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 23 minutes ago, loukash said: What does it have to do with this topic? To test an alternative approach to create what the OP asked for. Got distracted by the issues I posted. It’s late, good night for today 💤 1 hour ago, NotMyFault said: Impressive workflow stunt 👍🏼 But fiddling with so many settings … maybe it is faster to use a separate shape per node loukash 1 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...
TheLunaPark Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 Thanks everyone for the ideas and workarounds. I think for now it is indeed probably easier to simply create separate shapes but perhaps a built-in dedicated feature will come in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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