Tapered lines question

[dozens]

I'm trying to simply make a tapered line that ends at a sharp point and it's proving oddly difficult. This is where I'm at now after searching, but I still cannot get the tip of the two lines to be sharp. Further, I cannot get the Pressure area to do what I want. I figured I'd be able to just pull all the way down on the lefthand side, but couldn't, so I added a node there and just did the best I could. Here are some pics to help...

 

 

[MEB]

Hi dozens,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

On the Pressure profile dialog add a node to the middle of the line. Then drag both the outer nodes down - to get the shape of a mountain -. That will do what you want.

[R C-R]

In the second screenshot, it looks like two different pressure curves, one for each of two different selected lines, are displayed in the pressure curve window. Is that supposed to be possible? I can't find a way to do that with any Mac desktop Affinity app, beta or retail.

[dozens]

That's actually not what I'm wanting. I'm wanting the line to be wide at one end and a very sharp point at the tip. Perhaps I should just make a triangle shape?

[R C-R]

Just now, dozens said:

That's actually not what I'm wanting. I'm wanting the line to be wide at one end and a very sharp point at the tip. Perhaps I should just make a triangle shape?

Alt/option click on one end node in the pressure window to allow adjusting it independently of the other end node. Moving that node all the way down will create a sharp point at that end only.

[dozens]

Yes!

[JimmyJack]

15 minutes ago, dozens said:

Yes!

 

Yours should have worked too. I wonder what the problem was.

 

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

Yours should have worked too. I wonder what the problem was.

Can you (or anybody) explain what looks like a double curve in the screenshot?

[JimmyJack]

45 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Can you (or anybody) explain what looks like a double curve in the screenshot?

 

Yeah, it does look a little funny. It's just one curve profile.

 

 

[R C-R]

41 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:

It's just one curve profile.

Thanks! For some reason I was getting confused not by the white line at the top but by there being no dots in the end nodes. I know that it doesn't make sense to be confused by that, but that's what happened anyway. 

[walt.farrell]

But why are there nodes shown on the white box (lower left, upper left) at all?

[R C-R]

16 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But why are there nodes shown on the white box (lower left, upper left) at all?

The profile immediately goes from full width to zero width on the left, as shown in the small profile preview next to the "Pressure:" text. I would expect the same behavior if the leftmost end node was just brought down to zero to begin with & the node immediately below it was not used, but instead with the profile as shown I sometimes get some weird artifacts as the node immediately to the right of those two leftmost nodes is dragged to the right.

[Polygonius]

This white-box-outlines are a good example of some leaks of the global GUI of AP: Different areas are often not well separated enough from others. When i see videos from PS, the GUI there is much clearer: All elements have a kind of border or divider and you get with ONE VIEW what is what. In AP i have often to look twice or longer to get what is meaning. Its a little bit ironic that especially apps for graphic/UI it self looks a little bit cheap. (symbols are great, but the rest does not look well-thought, more as libreoffice than a masterpiece of GUI).

(Do not get me wrong: Libreoffice is great, just the GUI is cheap / unnecessary confusing.

 

BTW: Pressure-presets works only for the current doc, would be nice to have them global.