Affinity designer GUI is not made by a graphic designer #101 (How to make curves with pointy sides?)

[ennuied]

[GarryP]

“Pointy sides” could mean various things to different people.

If you can give us a visual example of what you mean by “pointy sides” then someone should be able to help further.

Also, do you care if the curve is still a single-segment vector curve, or not?

Also, do you care if the curve is rasterised, or not?

[Hilltop]

Take a look at this screenshot:

 

[ennuied]

4 minutes ago, GarryP said:

“Pointy sides” could mean various things to different people.

If you can give us a visual example of what you mean by “pointy sides” then someone should be able to help further.

Also, do you care if the curve is still a single-segment vector curve, or not?

Also, do you care if the curve is rasterised, or not?

Pointy like in the movie Dictator.

Why would I rasterise anything? This is a vector program for a reason, to preserve scalability.

[ennuied]

5 minutes ago, Hilltop said:

Take a look at this screenshot:

 

I don't know what it does, because it does nothing.

[ennuied]

[Hilltop]

40 minutes ago, ennuied said:

I don't know what it does, because it does nothing.

With the line selected, click on the stroke-size bar, and select Cap/Butt Cap in the drop-down window. This will change the round ends into straight ones. If that's not what you want, you can add arrow points to the line by selecting those in the same drop-down window under the Start and End options.

Added: With the Triangle Wide option in the Start/End options you have additional options for pointy ends. It takes a bit of fiddling though.

[carl123]

For straight lines you can use the Arrow Tool

The Arrows are adjustable as shown below

 

[firstdefence]

You could use the pressure setting on the Stroke panel.

[ennuied]

6 hours ago, carl123 said:

For straight lines you can use the Arrow Tool

The Arrows are adjustable as shown below

 

That's terrible.

[ennuied]

7 hours ago, Hilltop said:

With the line selected, click on the stroke-size bar, and select Cap/Butt Cap in the drop-down window. This will change the round ends into straight ones. If that's not what you want, you can add arrow points to the line by selecting those in the same drop-down window under the Start and End options.

Added: With the Triangle Wide option in the Start/End options you have additional options for pointy ends. It takes a bit of fiddling though.

Sorry if I don't know the right terms. When you draw on a tablet for example you can choose how your strokes will look like, to mimic the pencil or pen pressure. This is what I want to achieve. Right now the line looks like it was drawn in MS Paint.

[ennuied]

4 hours ago, firstdefence said:

You could use the pressure setting on the Stroke panel.

I do not know how you've done it. When I move the pressure setting, the line goes up or down, it does not curve like in your screenshot.

Could it be a bug?