Affinity Publisher: More shape tools please

[Stephen - TGF]

I much appreciate the shape tools we have and they get regular use from me but the most blatant omission is a hex tool. Please... pretty please...

And whilst we are on the topic, you tease me with a heart tool (and diamond) but you don't give me a clubs tool or spades tool? I'm willing to guess those would get more use from users than the tear tool. And as a game designer I'd be eternally grateful, honestly I would.

[Aammppaa]

I understand that a specific tool might offer convenience, but is there any reason you can't use the Polygon tool and set it to 6 sides? 

 

And for the other 2 suits, they are standard Unicode characters, so just pick a font you like.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode

[Pšenda]

5 minutes ago, Stephen - TGF said:

hex tool.

You mean this,

or this?

[Stephen - TGF]

7 minutes ago, Aammppaa said:

I understand that a specific tool might offer convenience, but is there any reason you can't use the Polygon tool and set it to 6 sides? 

 

And for the other 2 suits, they are standard Unicode characters, so just pick a font you like.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode

Sure, and I do use fonts, you get playing card symbols in several fonts but having a shape tool would be faster and quicker than calling those up all the time. You get plenty of diamonds in fonts but we have a diamond shape tool... 

[Stephen - TGF]

9 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

You mean this,

or this?

I'll be honest, I've never heard of the polygon tool. I'll look it up.

[Aammppaa]

You could make Assets for your suits, and just drag them from the Asset Panel onto the page... It's what I do.

[Stephen - TGF]

1 minute ago, Stephen - TGF said:

I'll be honest, I've never heard of the polygon tool. I'll look it up.

Okay, THAT polygon tool, I had no idea that could make hexes. THANK YOU. 

[Stephen - TGF]

Just now, Aammppaa said:

You could make Assets for your suits, and just drag them from the Asset Panel onto the page... It's what I do.

I have never used the assets panel. So you are saying create my own graphically and then save them as assets. What format do assets get saved as, regular image file types?

[Aammppaa]

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/assetsPanel.html

They stay as the object type as created.