Quick line width setting?

[Waigo]

By this video, how could this guy assign dynamic line width so quickly?

 

Any short cuts about it?

 

Does he prepare Styles for inking? If so, how about the shortcuts for assigning user styles?

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[MattP]

I can't see the video :(   

[SrPx]

https://youtu.be/7uAy1Pmy_as

 

:)

[SrPx]

I found it curious. So I researched a bit, took me some minutes, but was interesting to find out. My conclusion :
 
a ) Is an undocumented shortcut feature, not present in AD shortcut preferences. (that'd be quite strange)
b ) It was a feature in an earlier version, but is not there any more. (I just recently found Affinity's apps, so, could be)
 
c ) Heh, maybe is trying to impress us... This option wouldn't have any other reason...Is not doing anything with actual pen pressure, neither dragging over the already set basic lines.He is just laying his basic lines first, over his scanned sketch. Later, all done surely with the mouse (because probably he had not his favorite results with his tablet) , what he is probably just doing is altering the curve pressure of every curve segment already drawn, by selecting each, going to options of the tool (by having the palette outside the window, not clicking in the brush stroke), and fast (not so much, as this got its speeding up post edit)  adjusting each segment curve's nodes. Which is way slower than what he shows, as probably the video was post - speed up (actually..for sure) as otherwise would be tedious to see, not too impacting, less impressive, even less if we see the graph curve being handled.  IMO, he cropped the video (thus the very low resolution instead of being 720p at least, which most monitors reach today, even cr4ppy ones) , leaving "casually" out the tracing settings side panel that indeed you can drag outside the right panels' group (just check my annotated screenshot). Resolution is so low and blurry that I couldn't tell if I'd see this tab yet on the right, or been dragged to left or right side (but strongly suspect so), out of a non maximized Affinity window, sth that is actually possible to do. As you can see in the history panel, the operation information is exactly the same sentence than when changing the nodes in that pressure curve graph.
 
Remember "speed paint" (video describes it so in the title) is *not* that, is a form of traditional brush-like blocking digital painting. That I'd call "slow" painful vector work presented at high speed, hehehee.
 
Anyway, I'll give to him it's done well in what is the technical lines, and is a solution giving a lot of control over the inking.   :)
 
I was particularly curious as would indeed be super useful to have some shortcut to handle several dots of the curve, or better, vary thickines by pressure not changing the drawn line dots position, only the thickness, just painting in a lousy inaccurate way over it again. Or short cuts (so, tablet buttons) to assign the saved profiles.  I prefer tho directly painting with my tablet and let it do my favorite line as I go !  But nice trick none the less.
 


PD: For this operation being less painful, would have been great to have the curves floating window able to be left permanent, so he wouldn't have needed to click all times in the tiny graph icon, but have  the curves window always there. Anyway, am rather much more interested in actual brush engine improvements than this tedious trick... ;)  (of course, gives amazing control, but imo, too slow.)

[Waigo]

I found it curious. So I researched a bit, took me some minutes, but was interesting to find out. My conclusion :

 

a ) Is an undocumented shortcut feature, not present in AD shortcut preferences. (that'd be quite strange)

b ) It was a feature in an earlier version, but is not there any more. (I just recently found Affinity's apps, so, could be)

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you SrPx !!!

I also watched the inking parts of the video for multi times.

By the action messages scrolling up on the History panel, we can exactly figure out the operation flows of the author.

I've tried to modify the line pressure curves and got the same History action flow.

Your conclusion is right.

 

However, I'd prefer there comes an individual 'Width Tool' like AI. So that we can change the line width directly by the handles of each node. That would be fantastic operation for line inking.

 

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[SrPx]

However, I'd prefer there comes an individual 'Width Tool' like AI. So that we can change the line width directly by the handles of each node. That would be fantastic operation for line inking.

 

 

Yes, I know the feature, and I completely agree.   :) Yet though, I am a strong believer of being quite better actually getting that control on your brush direct stroke is thousands times better, but for those with not so good tablets, too small to get a good line flow, is probably a good way to go. Also, we are not yet in that point were tablets (not even the clearly winners now: Wacom Studio Pro, and iPad Pro 12.9 with The Pencil --> having this the better drawing system) are as absolutely controllable and 1:1 as you get with a piece of paper and some brushes and markers. Is just not yet there. So, yeah, an useful feature, I completely agree, as one could do absolutely accurate art expression, professional quality inking, with just a mouse and that feature, without even needing a tablet.   :), And the control over the line expression so is higher than  anything, for now. Just that overall workflow is slower, and nothing beats doing the brush expression by hand (I mean, by just painting directly thicker or thinner lines, steady, controllable and with no jitter or wobbles), IMO is where every vector and raster illustration tool must lead their feet to....

 

But having the feature you mention ensures any illustrator could produce top quality inking no matter the error in their tablet or in the software or driver side.