Affinity Designer: bug on group resizing - proportions of inner elements are lost

[Tormy]

I created a small character for a cartoon, in Affinity Designer, 577px high and 239 px width.

The character is made by several grouped layers:

• hat
• tuxedo
• legs
• face
• papillon
• etc ...

Everything was fine and worked properly til the moment I wanted to expand the group from 577px to 1440px High (keeping width/height the same).

Some element int the group didn't expanded accordingly.

Please here below the 2 screenshots:

577H character

 

Here the 1440H

[R C-R]

Can't tell that much from just the screenshots but my guess is the Stroke panel "Scale with object" property of one or more of the shapes was not enabled.

[Tormy]

9 hours ago, R C-R said:

Can't tell that much from just the screenshots but my guess is the Stroke panel "Scale with object" property of one or more of the shapes was not enabled.

Oh right indeed ... I never paid attention to it ... after have read you, I modified all the elements ticking that checkbox and it worked.

However it does mean that having it unticked, the object is scaled ... but unproperly ...

[cgidesign]

16 hours ago, Tormy said:

... the object is scaled ... but unproperly ...

In some cases it is wanted that the stroke keeps its width when scaling the object, in other cases, like yours, not. So it is not "unproperly" but just a different usage scenario.