Con Con Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 I have been a user of DrawPlus for few years before I welcome Affinity Designer into my PC. Now, I have to go back to my DP8 just to use some feature I cannot find in the new software: e.g. Envelope distortion. This particular one is so easy to use, it applies distortion to almost everything, including fonts and shapes, etc. If anyone knows where it is within Affinity Designer, please, let me know. One more thing: please, don't tell me to use nodes, because that's silly. Why would I draw fonts just to distort them later, when I can do it directly, type something and reshape it as I please ? ok thanks all for your help. No.1_2_U 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 7, 2018 Staff Share Posted January 7, 2018 Hi Con Con, Welcome to Affinity Forums Currently there's no Envelope Distortion (or any vector based distortion tool) in Affinity Designer. We have a mesh/warp tool planned (see Affinity Designer roadmap for the 1.x cycle (as a free update) which may help with this. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No.1_2_U Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 This is seriously the only thing that's stopping me from dropping my Adobe membership.... it's like leaving Green out of RGB... I find it VERY strange that this tool wasn't a part of the base set as it it so elementary. As a production designer and as a graphic artist, not having an envelope tool (like CorelDraw's) is unimaginably frustrating. Knute5 and Jowday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Con Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 MEB, your "roadmap" link in your answer take me to your post from 2014..... unless there is an error in that too.... I have the latest version of Designer 1.6+ and there is no "Mesh warp/distort tool" I'm not giving up in my DrawPlus X8 just yet..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 36 minutes ago, Con Con said: I have the latest version of Designer 1.6+ and there is no "Mesh warp/distort tool" As @MEB indicated, the roadmap covers features planned for the 1.x cycle. Now that version 1.6 has been released, any features which were added in 1.6 should be removed from the roadmap if they haven't already been. 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...
Knute5 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Waiting on this one feature to kick Illustrator to the curb. Used Macromedia Fireworks 15 years ago in part due to its simple distortion tool. But a mesh warp like AI is critical. jamesholden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgarza Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Cant use AD without envelope / mesh as well. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buschbrand Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I really need envelope distortion or something like that – perspective transformations is also necessary for me. I love you guys and please carry on doing this good job! Thank you! jamesholden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermurph Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 We have been using Affinity Designer in our studios for years. We very rarely finish a job without having to export it to Serif software from 2015 to finish it. There are so many essential tools missing that were available way back then. Break Curve Apart, Vector Distortion, Bitmap Trace, Smart Vector fill and many more. Six years on and we are still waiting for these basics that Serif know how to make because they did successfully for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 14 hours ago, spidermurph said: Six years on Seven years in a few weeks😶 Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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