Extrude.

[Affinity-Inspiration]

I’d really like to see Extrude added to effects in Designer.

[GarryP]

Since different people might interpret the word/functionality “extrude” differently, it might help people to know what you mean by that if you gave one or more ‘before and after’ examples.

[Pšenda]

https://www.google.com/search?q=extrude+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com

[Affinity-Inspiration]

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

Since different people might interpret the word/functionality “extrude” differently, it might help people to know what you mean by that if you gave one or more ‘before and after’ examples.

[GarryP]

So you want the “extrude” functionality to make the text look ‘shiny’ like metal and have a gradated shadow beneath it, and for the shape of the letters to be ‘thrust out into a pseudo-3D space’ somehow to some distance only below the text with relevant shadowing effects added to the sides?

Yes, I’m deliberately being facetious/flippant, but the example you gave is probably not the best example of showing what you think a single effect would do (and you didn’t give a “before” example).

This thread will probably be read by lots of different people and what you think an “extrude” effect should do might not be what they think it should do.

[PaoloT]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

different people might interpret the word/functionality “extrude” differently

Hasn't, in technical vocabulary, "extrude" a precise meaning, that is "making a flat shape gain a third dimension"?

Paolo

 

[fde101]

Extrusion in this context is a fairly well-understood function.  The application makes a duplicate of the object and connects the duplicate to the original at each node around its edges, forming shapes between those connected nodes which are then filled with an indicated color, pattern, gradient, etc.

 

 

Not to be confused with the extruders which are components of 3D printers.

[JariH]

Yes, please.
I second! Some form of extrusion is an essential modification tool for the shapes and curves. In other postings, similar requests go under the "blend" tool. You would be able to blend between shapes and colours. Combining it along a path would be very close to a true vector brush, opening up numerous creative possibilities that are not currently possible (or very laborious) in the current Designer version.

This example would have been a breeze with the extrude/blend tool.

[seabirdr]

Honestly, to get that "extrude" effect right now, we've got to manually apply a bunch of techniques to draw it out. I really believe having a built-in extrude function would be a game-changer in terms of cranking up the efficiency for crafting these kinds of graphics. So yeah, I'm all for adding this feature to the toolset.

[2ddpainter]

Adobe present something interesting about that
a while ago.

Where the most interesting thing is that you
can save the result as SVG.

here the video