Poor Screen Updates When Triggering Creation of Pixel Layer Using Brush Tool

[debraspicher]

This is with Affinity Designer 2.2.1.2075 on Windows 10.

It seems to happen with Layers specifically. Triggering creation within the root Artboard doesn't cause the same garbled screen updating behavior when a Pixel Layer is created using Assistant.

Steps:

1. Start document with Artboard
2. Switch to Pixel Persona
3. Create a Layer
4. Start drawing inside Layer forcing creation of a Pixel Layer using Assistant.
5. Reap:
 

 

test-document.afdesign

[walt.farrell]

That seems like a problem once known as AFD-5473, and unfixed as far as I know, but nothing seems to have that tag any more: 

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afd-5473

[debraspicher]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

That seems like a problem once known as AFD-5473, and unfixed as far as I know, but nothing seems to have that tag any more: 

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afd-5473

The link doesn't populate any posts as of right now as you say, but I'll take your word for it, walt.

I tried continuing working in Designer under a Layer with a different document. I gave up and worked under the Artboard directly. I was just drawing out lines over a template to setup for something I was going to be working on.

[NathanC]

Hi @debraspicher,

This is a known issue currently logged with the developers, i'll bump the existing issue with your report so hopefully this will get some attention from the developers.

@walt.farrell following internal changes AFD-5473 has now become AF-489, the previous threads tagged with the old issue ref have auto updated to this as well: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=af-489

[debraspicher]

Thank you, @NathanC

[debraspicher]

Issue still present. I'd like to include more video because it sustained the behavior beyond even the first strokes. Here I was even just trying to do something basic for my daughter for a quick print out to give her small art to work with and as soon as I went to try to paint inside under Designer > Pixel Persona, it was impossible to work with it this way visually because I couldn't "preview" what I was doing on canvas. Moving it to Photo didn't make the painting process any smoother. It's very disappointing because when I continue to try to move portions of my workflow to these programs, I run into issues like this constantly that remind me it's not reliable enough yet (for me) for even part of my illustration workflow...

So I guess just count this as a bump, but I've brought more video here in case it was helpful. Disabling OpenCL didn't help. I had it disabled when I started.

 

 

flower.afdesign  

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Painting into a grouped Pixel Layer on an Artboard will fail to redraw new strokes" (REF: AF-489) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.2.3187). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.