[Affintiy Designer 2] - is there any way to set the initial orientation of a warp layer?

[Dazzler]

I've been playing around with the new warp layer tool, which is great and a much needed addition to the suite, but I'm just wondering if there is any way to adjust the initial orientation of the warp without affecting the layer you are warping? Or do I need to do all the warping with the shapes straight first and then rotate them into place?

So for example, if I had some text aligned to a shape that was at 30 degree angle and I want to push the middle part of the text up (up as in the direction of the ascenders of the text, not up as in the canvas direction), currently if I choose the bend horizontal I end up with an odd result because my object is at an angle to start with and the warp isn't aligned to that angle, so adding new nodes to the warp doesn't really help either as those are initial aligned to the canvas direction not the shape I'm trying to warp.

Also, with the ability to add shapes into the warp layer afterwards is there any way to expand the edges of the warp field to include a new shape (if it's running further outside of the original warp area)?
 

[MikeTO]

I couldn't find a great way to do this. I rotated artistic text to 30 degrees. I applied the Arc - Horizontal warp preset to it. The text layer was now rotated 60 degrees. I changed the rotation back to 30 degrees but I didn't get the results I was hoping for because the object wasn't correctly positioned within the warp group. While I could fix this it was more trouble than it was worth. It was easier to copy the original artistic text object's rotation value from Transform and then set it to 0. Apply the warp, and then change the warp group's rotation value to what I copied from the text object.