ROB002 Posted August 17, 2017 Posted August 17, 2017 Would love to see better management options of the Assets and Symbols panel. It gets messy very quickly, and no way to reorder...that coupled with inadequate preview makes it pretty frustrating. Aammppaa 1 Quote
Staff MEB Posted August 17, 2017 Staff Posted August 17, 2017 Hi ROB002, Welcome to Affinity Forums Regarding Assets: to reorder assets (or move them to another category/subcategory) press and hold ⌥ (option/alt) and drag them to where you want them to be. You can also create more categories/subcategories from the small icon menu on the top right of the Assets panel. Symbols are document specific and as such we don't provide additional management options at this point. Do you usually have/use/manage that much symbols on this panel? mikeswarts and Aammppaa 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Aammppaa Posted August 17, 2017 Posted August 17, 2017 7 minutes ago, MEB said: to reorder assets press and hold ⌥ (option/alt) and drag them to where you want them to be. Symbols are document specific and as such we don't provide additional management options. Do you usually have/use/manage that much symbols on this panel? Thanks for the reminder that we can reorder Assets using a modifier key - I had forgotten! As for number of symbols used... I use AD to prototype boardgames and use Symbols for every repeated element in the game. This allows me to change the icon on every card in a deck of 100+ cards with one action (for example). It is not uncommon for me to have 30+ symbols in a document, and it would be useful to me to subcategorise them and manage them in the same way I can with assets. smallreflection 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro
ROB002 Posted August 17, 2017 Author Posted August 17, 2017 24 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi ROB002, Welcome to Affinity Forums Regarding Assets: to reorder assets (or move them to another category/subcategory) press and hold ⌥ (option/alt) and drag them to where you want them to be. You can also create more categories/subcategories from the small icon menu on the top right of the Assets panel. Symbols are document specific and as such we don't provide additional management options at this point. Do you usually have/use/manage that much symbols on this panel? Thanks a lot man! Im actually pretty new to Affinity, so just trying to find my way around n noticing things that are not really apparent. Keep up the good work though! Any idea on the next release date? Quote
fuzzum19 Posted September 21, 2017 Posted September 21, 2017 Regarding the symbol management +1 on me, because it's getting tedious on finding that specific symbol once you created a lot already especially when creating UI for Mobile games and apps. Maybe a way like "Find this symbol on panel" something Quote
avicenna Posted September 25, 2017 Posted September 25, 2017 Hi. +1 for symbol management. When creating game assets, with a lot of repeating elements, this gets tedious. Since I was a user of another big name software before, here is what I usually use/ need. 1. Allow smaller thumbnails for symbols. 2. Allow list view for symbols. 3. Allow to sort symbols by name. This way we can manage the symbols by only using the name prefix. Cheers. Aammppaa, smallreflection and Jaraxus 3 Quote
smallreflection Posted September 27, 2017 Posted September 27, 2017 +1 for list view option/categorizing/sort of symbols. For lots of symbols, a quick-search box inset in the panel would also be great (same for Layers panel). Aammppaa 1 Quote
mikeswarts Posted November 30, 2017 Posted November 30, 2017 I assumed Assets could not be reordered. Happy to be wrong. Why the ⌥ modifier key, though? Quote
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