kufloyd Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Hi, I would like the space below the arc but above the mountain to be all filled with a color, say, blue. Any ideas on how best to do this? thanks. summit.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Copy mountain path, paste it (it positions exactly as original), select pen tool and add points following the arc area (does not have to be exact, just stay within coloured arc area) and when you close path at the other end of you can fill it as you like. Change stroke to 0 pt and move to back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Copy mountain path, paste it (it positions exactly as original), select pen tool and add points following the arc area (does not have to be exact, just stay within coloured arc area) and when you close path at the other end of you can fill it as you like. Change stroke to 0 pt and move to back. If you do it that way, the stroke needs to be pretty accurate to stay within the thin right-hand area of the arc. A lazy alternative which doesn't require any accuracy is as follows: 1. Duplicate the entire Layer1 and select the mountain path 2. Choose the Pen Tool and add points above the arc area 3. Set the stroke to 'None' and fill as desired 4. Select the objects in the duplicate layer 5. Click on 'Divide' on the Geometry toolbar 6. Choose the Move Tool and select the two objects you want to keep 7. Copy the selected objects 8. Delete the entire duplicate Layer1 9. Paste the copied objects Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kufloyd Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 thanks Alfred and Fixx. I found both of your ideas to be very helpful, especially Alfred's lazy-accurate solution :) Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 FWIW, I tried Alfred's method & I kept getting a tiny little unfilled area at the rightmost end of the mountain fill. It is very tiny but as the attached shows, it is there: The shape varies depending on where the extra nodes are placed in his step 2, but without further adjustment of the rightmost bottom nodes of that fill, I could never completely eliminate it. (See the attached summit v1 mod file.) So I tried something more like the Fixx method: 1. Duplicate the mountain. 2. Set its fill to blue & stroke to zero. 3. Move it to the back. 4. Node tool > Close curve 5. Add node to bottom center. 6. Drag that node up to behind the crescent. 7. Adjust its node handles to fill in the space behind the rest of the crescent. See the attached summit v2 mod file (history included) for the result. summit v1 mod.afdesign summit v2 mod.afdesign Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 It's curious that my 2. Choose the Pen Tool and add points above the arc area should yield a different result than 4. Node tool > Close curve 5. Add node to bottom center. 6. Drag that node up to behind the crescent. 7. Adjust its node handles to fill in the space behind the rest of the crescent. since it theory it shouldn't matter whether you draw the curve above the crescent or draw it below and then drag it up. Edit: It has occurred to me that I may have tried too hard to be concise when describing my steps. I think you need to make sure that the added points result in a closed curve: I automatically looked for a yellow highlight when adding the last part of the new section. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 As best as I can remember, I did make sure the added points resulted in a closed curve when I tried your method. In my v1 mod file, switching to outline view shows the righthand blue fill shape is closed, & nothing changes if I do the Close curve action on it. From what I can tell, this seems to have something to do with the rightmost end node on the mountain curve. It is showing as a Smooth node (even though it has no second control handle). When I switch to the Pen tool with the duplicate selected, a second control handle appears at an angle to the visible one, so something is wonky: Even if I delete that handle before adding nodes, I still get the tiny gap. I have no idea why this happens. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 From what I can tell, this seems to have something to do with the rightmost end node on the mountain curve. It is showing as a Smooth node (even though it has no second control handle). Unless you're referring to something else, a Smooth node only ever shows both control handles when the node is selected. When you select a node, the adjacent nodes only display control handles on the same side as the selected node (but I imagine that you've already observed this for yourself). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Unless you're referring to something else, a Smooth node only ever shows both control handles when the node is selected. But look at my screenshot in my last post -- that is a single selected node, showing as a smooth one (because it is a circle, not a square) & yet its two handles are at different angles, so it cannot really be a smooth node. As I said, as soon as I switch to the Pen tool with the duplicate mountain curve selected, that is what I get, even though at that time it is an end node & I have not yet selected that or any other node on that curve. It is selected in the screenshot only to make that more obvious. I have seen this behavior before (a node with a circular marker but with its handles at two different angles). It can occur at an end node or at any node along a path. Typically, selecting one of its handles with the Node tool & moving it even slightly snaps the other handle to the 180° angle to make it a smooth node, or moving it with the option key held down to change only its angle changes the marker to the square one. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 But look at my screenshot in my last post -- that is a single selected node, showing as a smooth one (because it is a circle, not a square) & yet its two handles are at different angles, so it cannot really be a smooth node. Ah, OK, I see what you mean! I think you may have uncovered a little bug there. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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