Tyves Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 when you do the following. Just add some of the live FX... all cool... works... even if you put them in a group... saving this FX group to assets... works... BUT open a new doc.... add some text or whatever and then try to drag and drop that live fx group Publisher instantly closes from one to another second. is this a bug?... or do I misunderstand something in the work around of assets/groups/layer? just asking because it doesn't matter what FX nor what settings are set in the FX... or even which order the FX have... Quote
Tyves Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 I mean the live things from the lower end of the layer panel (attachment)... Quote
Dan C Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 Hi @Tyves, Thanks for your report! I'm not seeing this behaviour here currently, with a Live Gaussian Blur layer within a Group I can drag and drop this over a text object, or drop the text object within the Group layer without the app crashing. Can you please provide a screen recording showing the steps you're taking to trigger this crash, so that I can report this to our developers as required? If you're unsure how to take a screen recording, please check out our FAQ linked below - Many thanks in advance Quote
thomaso Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 In my experience with APub V1 the "live" layers don't work reliable if used as Assets. Some do work as expected while others don't. For instance a Live Gaussian Blur Filter does work in APub V1 if dragged as asset in a new document while a Live Halftone Filter does not do anything if it is a former asset, though it appears in the Layers panel with its properties set as before, grouped or not does not seem to influence the result. I did not get crashes – but I got artefacts (vertical stripes) when I copy a layer of a used asset from APub into APhoto. Assets generally can be tricky (in V1 only?), causing unexpected results, for instance below with Groups of curves & text (no "live" layer effect/ adjustment/ filter involved): Or below a sample with a "Live" layer not working properly if used as Symbol: Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Tyves Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 Sorry @Dan C I can't even recorded it... as far as I drag the asset group from assets panel the Pub app instantly crashes. Just tried it but then the rec is also gone... Also tried the same on another Mac. same thing. ok, once more slowly... lets open a normal new doc (ctrl+n) add a text frame (lets fill it with some fill text... then you're going to the live filter menu below the layer panel and add any 3 or 4 of them... doesn't matter which ones and doesn't matter what settings... grab the 3 or 4 live filters - group them... go to assets panel after you marked the group and choose "assets from marked" (or how its called in the engl. version of PUB) then your live fx group lands in assets panel... fine now try dragging that group to you new created PUB doc with the text on it... CRASH.... that's it... at least here on two different Macs... one with AP2 and one with AP1... both act the same... Quote
Tyves Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 ooooohhhh now it works completely different.... 🤣 ok, started all new... I did alle the same work around from above... now its not crashing anymore (don't ask me why) but the live filter doesn't work anymore when I dragged them from the panel.🤔 there's nothing filtered... no blur or whatever I try... all keeps plain and unfiltered... Quote
Tyves Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 @Return in the live filters I used there's no option like that... but I just found out that also changing the setting doesn't effect the result. I also dragged the filters out of the group but... all stays as it is... but when I put a fresh live filter on top this only one works... all the others from the assets group get ignored... 😳🤷🏻♂️😬 Quote
thomaso Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 15 minutes ago, Tyves said: 🤔 there's nothing filtered... no blur or whatever I try... all keeps plain and unfiltered... While in my previous V1 test mentioned above at least the Gaussian Blur did work, now in another test both "live" layers appear not to affect anything. The group before asset: … and used as asset: Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Dan C Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Tyves said: lets open a normal new doc (ctrl+n) add a text frame (lets fill it with some fill text... then you're going to the live filter menu below the layer panel and add any 3 or 4 of them... doesn't matter which ones and doesn't matter what settings... grab the 3 or 4 live filters - group them... go to assets panel after you marked the group and choose "assets from marked" (or how its called in the engl. version of PUB) then your live fx group lands in assets panel... fine now try dragging that group to you new created PUB doc with the text on it... CRASH Thanks for the steps provided - though unfortunately I'm still unable to replicate this crashing behaviour, or the other odd behaviour you've described. As above I'm going to need a screen recording to understand the issue you're seeing and report this to our developers, as the application is not crashing for me. Thus far I have been able to add live filters, group them and add them as an Asset, then apply that Asset to a new or existing file without issue. Quote
Tyves Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 @Dan C well in my V2 it doesnt crash anymore since I started all from new but as I mentioned if I drag the group from assets panel it doesn't do anything... I can see the group in the layers panel with all its settings and so on but it doesn't affect anything... Quote
Dan C Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 4 hours ago, Tyves said: well in my V2 it doesnt crash anymore since I started all from new but as I mentioned if I drag the group from assets panel it doesn't do anything... I can see the group in the layers panel with all its settings and so on but it doesn't affect anything... Thanks for letting me know! I've been able to replicate both this issue, and the crash within specific circumstances - therefore I'll be logging these bugs with our development team now to be resolved ASAP. I hope this helps Quote
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