dozens Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 6, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 6, 2018 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. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 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. 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...
dozens Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 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 1 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...
dozens Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 Yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 15 minutes ago, dozens said: Yes! Yours should have worked too. I wonder what the problem was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 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? 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...
JimmyJack Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 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. 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...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 But why are there nodes shown on the white box (lower left, upper left) at all? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 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. 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...
Polygonius Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 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. Quote OSX 12.5 / iMac Retina 27" / Radeon Pro 580X / Metall: on! --- WWG1WGA WW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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