Peregrin Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 I know I've suggested a similar feature, but all this talk of smoothing curves brought this up in my mind; in addition to a tool to smooth a curve, Affinity Designer should also have the opposite. I am of course referring to Midpoint Displacement, which would allow illustrators to make non-uniform curves more easily than having to draw each node individually. Being able to smooth curves is indeed important, but as it is, it's really hard to produce a line that doesn't look uniform, and a roughening tool to add pseudorandom midpoint displacement would make illustrating much less time-consuming. Fisherlassie, Alfred, BennyD and 19 others 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CartoonMike Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Big +1 Now that's the stuff. There's a few occasions (sometimes a lot) when I need to have roughened curves for a word balloon (like when the person's in pain, or a demon's talking, for example). Normally I just roll up my sleeves and just do it in AD, because I won't go back to the big A. But a feature like this would be quite the time-saver for comic letterers. Fisherlassie and Peregrin 2 Quote Mac OS X Catinlina, 2014 iMac, 3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7, Huion Kamvas Pro 22 Graphic Tablet, 16GB RAM, MacOS10.12 || Magic keyboard w/numeric keypad, wireless trackpad, Kengsington Edge Trackball || Flux Capacitor in a secure location --- I encourage kids to go ahead and play on my lawn. I mean, how else can I make sure the death-traps work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 Big +1 Now that's the stuff. There's a few occasions (sometimes a lot) when I need to have roughened curves for a word balloon (like when the person's in pain, or a demon's talking, for example). Normally I just roll up my sleeves and just do it in AD, because I won't go back to the big A. But a feature like this would be quite the time-saver for comic letterers. I imagine many aspects of comicbook illustration would be easier if you could draw a rough line quickly. Fisherlassie and CartoonMike 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherlassie Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 This feature sounds like it would be really helpful for making maps that don't look like they are made with a machine!! I write adventure stories and this would be fantastic for making my maps!! Peregrin and CartoonMike 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Here are examples of possible roughen effects that work on vector shapes. In the two applications that I used to create these, the effects remain live and can be stacked for combinations. These should provide food for thought for the developers. ea0723, Peregrin, lepr and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobsDaubs Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 +1...this is an effect that can help a lot to make lines look less digital and more like hand drawn lines. Peregrin and ea0723 2 Quote iMac (24 inch, M1, 8 cores, 16 GB Memory, 2021) iPad Pro 12.9", 3rd Generation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Here are examples of possible roughen effects that work on vector shapes. In the two applications that I used to create these, the effects remain live and can be stacked for combinations. These should provide food for thought for the developers. It's good to know that we're not the only ones who think this'd be useful. I think it's a great idea for it to be a non-destructive property. I'd also like to add that you should be able to bake roughening the same way you do with corners so you can then make more precise edits afterward. +1...this is an effect that can help a lot to make lines look less digital and more like hand drawn lines. Agreed! It would also be good for drawing mountains, speech bubbles, maps, hair, and "ripped paper" effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 Now that the new update's finished, I thought it would be a good time to bring this up again. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klumme Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 It would be amazing to have stuff like roughen or smooth line as layer effects -- tweakable and non-destructive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterLee Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I would also love this capability!!! Pretty please! Lee Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 It would be amazing to have stuff like roughen or smooth line as layer effects -- tweakable and non-destructive. I was thinking of something more along the lines of how the corner tool works would be more versatile than an effect that encompasses the whole layer. MattP has actually said that he intends to add it as a roughen tool that can be 'rubbed over' an area to roughen it (and likewise a smoothing tool to do the opposite) which sounds even better than what we were all thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klumme Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I was thinking of something more along the lines of how the corner tool works would be more versatile than an effect that encompasses the whole layer. MattP has actually said that he intends to add it as which sounds even better than what we were all thinking. Very useful in some cases, but perhaps not that convenient when trying different styles for the whole layer, changing your mind etc.? I wouldn't mind both ;) . Alfred and Peregrin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted January 27, 2017 Author Share Posted January 27, 2017 Very useful in some cases, but perhaps not that convenient when trying different styles for the whole layer, changing your mind etc.? I wouldn't mind both ;) . I couldn't agree more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeill Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Another vote for this feature. In the meantime looks like Inkscape can do: http://www.eyedrawit.com/use-inkscape-extensions-to-roughen-outline/ Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 22 hours ago, mikeill said: Another vote for this feature. In the meantime looks like Inkscape can do: http://www.eyedrawit.com/use-inkscape-extensions-to-roughen-outline/ I've been using Inkscape, but it would be good not to have to use a windows computer when I do most of my work on Affinity for Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatterbrain73 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Oh, yes please. I miss stackable roughen effects. So useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 . Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 23 hours ago, owenr said: Why not use the Mac version of Inkscape? (It takes only a few seconds to install XQuartz.) That's actually a really good idea. What's XQuartz exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 . Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Another "please" for this feature! Illustrator also has it. Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 +1 Still missed Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointery Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 1+ for both: Smoothing tool and Roughen tool... Both are important for a vector application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 +1 From me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 Yeah, that's an important suggestion, I think. You could of course use a stroke with some "rough" brush to visually get rough edges, but it would be VERY nice to roughen the path itself even if it is just a thin line and doesn't have a stroke. I know we shouldn't always bring in Adobe Illustrator for comparison, but justice be done, especially some of those features listed under "Effects" in AI have so often proved so convenient in my work that I'd really wish there could be some equivalent in Affinity Designer sooner or later. That those "Effects" can be altered any time later by changing their parameters and eventually be converted to just paths (when the design is finished for good) is also a very appreciated feature. There's also a tool to roughen up paths in the AI toolbar, but I personally haven't ever used that a lot so I do not miss it as much in AD as I do miss some of the "Effects". I've already suggested elsewhere in this forum that Affinity/Serif might consider to open up Designer to third party developers by way of allowing specialized plugins to be added to the basic programm (like it is – again – with AI and – e.g. – those interesting PlugIns by Astute Graphics). This might bring some additional momentum to the further evolution of this program (which – as of now – is just version 1.7.3 [and already kind of great!]) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elship Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I also would really appreciate these features. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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