deeds Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Would I be right in saying that Affinity Designer does away with the concept of symbols and smart objects, simply making files these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 23, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 23, 2015 No, symbols weren't implemented yet. They are on our roadmap. What you're probably referring to is embedded documents which some users seem to be using as a workaround/substitute for symbols. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 If you use files as symbols, do you need symbols? It seems like Photoshop basically treats symbols as files, but neglects to let the user know that's what's going on "under the hood", so why not just be upfront about it, and add some instancing abilities to embedded documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 and, having done that, take the rest of the day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Seriously, please consider this approach. I won't often give kudos to Adobe (nothing personal, they just most things wrong), but the way Pre-Comps work in AE is masterful. And, conversely, once you understand this component of using a file as a symbol, and have the ability to instance them with their own transforms, effects, blend modes etc... it's fantastic. Addictive. If you were to provide the ability to save out a "pre-comp" of layers and their content, to a cropping, clipping or masking that defines their size, and then immediately import that file as an instance of the file, you've got full symbol functionality, and then some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 For further reading on the flexibility of this approach, Xref "symbols" in 3ds Max: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/3DSMax/files/GUID-F9CE15BD-FD57-4671-8F3A-8E742B766555-htm.html Please, I'm BEGGING you to more deeply consider this approach. The end benefit to your users will be enormous. The saving in programming time and effort, and UI effort will also be significant. And this is what a symbol really is, and its an approach that works across all your intended products, and then more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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