ecce Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Is there a way to easily make 3D shapes in affinity designer? It does not have to be a true 3D object that exists in a 3D space, the illusion of 3D will do fine. I want to draw a shape, use rotation and perspective to "lay it down" on a surface and then apply height to get a 3D effect. The built in fx functions like 3D and bevel & emboss are not what I'm looking for, mainly because they rasterize when exported. I want to stay vector based. They are also limited in for example visual height setting. Simple shapes like a cube can easily be done manually, but complex shapes I have not found a solution for yet. So far I've done a bit of manual job, duplicating an object and then manually draw lines with the pen tool between the two shapes to create areas that look like a 3D object, but it's very time consuming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 You can use one of the grid presets to allow you to get perspective. View > Grid and Axis Manager Each side is a curve and the shadow is a curve with transparency. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecce Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 6 hours ago, firstdefence said: You can use one of the grid presets to allow you to get perspective. View > Grid and Axis Manager Each side is a curve and the shadow is a curve with transparency. That's what I have done, but of you want to make e.g. a cog icon 3D the grid is not much help? There is an example below with a symbol I have created, and a sample text. The arrows on the box for example, could those be given a 3D-look by giving them a height in some easy way? Drawing shapes and joining curves works but it's to much work to be worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 2, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 2, 2018 Hi ecce, No. You can't 'extrude' shapes to create 3D objects in Affinity. The only way is to using the grid (and snapping) to help to build them manually as you have been doing. I believe Ben is working on a few improvements to make this process easier but i don't know much details at this point neither absolute sure this will be implemented. ecce 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Doesn't the power duplicate feature make "extruding" shapes relatively easy? ecce 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 2, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 2, 2018 You can use it but personally i think it's overkill for this. You end up with a huge number of shapes which are not very manageable if you want to work/devekop further on them. The edges also tend to look 'jagged' if you don't use a large number of copies. However it's great for a few specialised things. ecce 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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