Affinity-Inspiration Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 I’d really like to see Extrude added to effects in Designer. JariH 1 Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS @Affinity-Inspiration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 https://www.google.com/search?q=extrude+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity-Inspiration Posted May 31, 2023 Author Share Posted May 31, 2023 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. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS @Affinity-Inspiration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 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 GripsholmLion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 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. Affitoom and PaoloT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JariH Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 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. GripsholmLion and seabirdr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seabirdr Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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