Affinity Desinger 2 - How do I increase details (more vector points) on strokes when drawing with tablet?

[rsteinberger]

Hello everyone, this is my first post and I'm a newbie to Affinity. Used to work with Illustrator.

I'm looking for the option to change the amount of vector points (nodes) on a stroke when I'm drawing with a tablet. I'm losing all the detail of my strokes with the vector brush and they're usually reduced to a few points. How can I increase the detail here? I can't seem to find the option, or any advice on the internet. Thank you!

[rsteinberger]

Is there no such thing?

[NathanC]

Hi @rsteinberger apologies for the late response,

Outside of manually adding more nodes to a curve manually via the node tool this isn't a function I'm aware of.

[Andy05]

@rsteinberger Did you try to set the smoothness to 0% and disable the stabiliser? I can draw some quite detailed lines with this settings, keeping a decent amount nodes needed for each change of the direction.

[R C-R]

On 12/15/2024 at 4:17 AM, rsteinberger said:

I'm losing all the detail of my strokes with the vector brush....

I am not sure what tool you mean by "vector brush," but assuming you are using Affinity Designer, have you tried using the Pencil Tool with the Stabilizer disabled?

6 hours ago, Andy05 said:

@rsteinberger Did you try to set the smoothness to 0% and disable the stabiliser?

Assuming you mean the AD Pencil Tool, where do you see a smoothness setting for it?

[Andy05]

22 hours ago, R C-R said:

Assuming you mean the AD Pencil Tool, where do you see a smoothness setting for it?

My bad, you're right: I didn't realise it's on the beta only—it feels like I've been using this truly useful feature for so long now, I could have sworn it came with V2.0 release.

Yet that actually seems to solve OP's problem. So either wait for the V2.6.X stable release or use the current beta...