Nic727 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Hi, What's the best way to do a custom sound wave in Designer? I tried with the pen tool, but it doesn't look like music at all. Thank you ---- EDIT : I think I found a way to do it by snapping to grid and draw the lines from there, but the problem I have is to make the curve circular instead of straight line. Any idea to make all the corners having the same curve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 I'm guessing you are using the pen tool in polygon mode, and not smooth mode. Select one of your sharp edged lines, activate the node tool, select all, and then click on the smooth node widget in the context bar. May give you something close to what you want. Prob'ly will need to tweak the node handles. Nic727 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 11 minutes ago, gdenby said: Prob'ly will need to tweak the node handles. Prob'ly easier to start from scratch in Smooth mode so that you won't need to tweak anything! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Yeah, but its worth knowing how switching the nodes from sharp to smooth changes the curviness. Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic727 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 Thank you. It works... In fact it's easier than I thought. I'm sure in Illustrator it's much more complicated than that and it's why I love Affinity Designer. Easier and much better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic727 Posted October 1, 2017 Author Share Posted October 1, 2017 Another question related to that. I create the wave with dotted line. How do I make each corner to be a perfect triangle instead of having a hole in the middle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Don´t think that´s an easy going. You can have play the mitre setting of the path to get tris at each corner using mitre-joins: Not sure if you like the result. Cheers P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 If you want a rounded shape where the line changes direction, I think you need to draw it as a series of discrete lines: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 You can try adjusting the phase to move the dashes along the curve so each corner dash is centered on its corner node, but unless you are very lucky that will only work for one or two corners. Changing the node positions slightly and/or adjusting the dash & space lengths might help with that but the interface is not well suited for this, so it is unlikely you will be able to get everything adjusted properly. What @Alfred suggested is probably the best approach but it is probably going to take a lot of fiddling to get each line to have equal dash lengths at the corners, & it may not be possible to get both ends to do that. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 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...
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