Please add ability for FX stroke/bevel to have a different gradient or pattern overlay than surface.

[JohnG]

Please add the ability to assign a different pattern overlay to the stroke that is different from the overall pattern overlay.

This is necessary, in order to simulate a different reflection on the bevel of the object than the pattern/gradient on the surface of the object.

As it is, if I assign a pattern overlay to an object in Affinity Photo 2 (AP2), I have to assign a mask to the entire object and then apply the overlay to the entire object, before going into Effects. This means that if I assign an inner bevel to the object, the bevel will have the same pattern as the surface.

In order to simulate a shiny bevel (machined look), I need to be able to apply the pattern from within Effects, so the pattern only applies to the surface. Then, I can assign a different pattern or gradient overlay to the bevel separately.

The attached image shows the edge of text created in Photoshop CS6 (PS CS6 - the last version of PS that was not subscription) and the edge of text created in AP2, to achieve the same effect. Note that the bevel on the AP2 text contains the same overlay pattern as the surface of the text, whereas the bevel on the antique PS CS6 text appears shiny and there is no hint of the overlay pattern from the surface.

The lack of this capability in AP2 is the ONLY reason I keep PS CS6 around. It's a pain, when I want to use reflective, beveled text, to have to open VMWare Fusion, open a Mac OS 10.14 Mojave virtual machine, and then run PS CS6 within that virtual machine, just to create the piece of text that I need and then save that into a PNG file, to be imported back into AP2. Then, if I later decide to change the wording of the text, I have to repeat the process all over, instead of just re-typing the text in AP2.

I can do a little better than the image in this sample. But in every case, the bevel is corrupted with the overlay from the surface of the object.

Please give us the ability to have a different gradient/pattern overlay on the FX bevel of an object, than the gradient/pattern overlay on the surface of the object.

Thank you.