SGen Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Anyone know how yet? Because I don't. lol. Maybe an hour or less of researching Google on how to do it inside Ai will transfer principles over to Ad? Trying to place a lemniscate inside the fountain pen tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGen Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Okay, Have a new approach. Will post video of it, making it from scratch and not using an 8 in a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniemcbride Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I no math whiz and I not sure what would make it perfect. anyway, I just quickly two teardrops turned them horizontal, changed them to curves and then combined them at the tip. Sorry, if that not acceptable. I only had 5 minutes to spare. Lemniscate-try.afdesign.zip peter 1 Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGen Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Thank you. From what I've noticed about design in general is that you gotta think out of the box. I would've never thought to use tear drops and converting to curves. Noticed the shape but never thought/saw of it in terms of Stroke, but only fill. I was just going to draw a quarter of the lemniscate, then replicate, then flip, until I got a complete lemniscate. I'm pretty used to thinking of things from scratch, and ignored the shape tool box in AD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniemcbride Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 You are welcome! :) Think out the box? What if I told you there isn't a box? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI SGen 1 Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It takes a lot of trial and error to understand curves in computer drawing. Or an innate ability with beziers, cubic beziers, quadratic curves and a bunch of other stuff I have no idea about. One of the most interesting ways to learn about curve optimising (and therefore how they work) is to manually trace a Nike tick. It's a much more interesting thing than it first sounds to be, and will reveal much about how curves work in drawing apps. You've gotten onto something complex, an overlapping line. That's advanced stuff, dude! :: Pun alert Drawing software is primitive. nigelch and Gelphyn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGen Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 lol. I was doing some exercises I found on youtube for getting down the pen tool, such as anchoring only at peaks and valleys/vertices, and this was before I found out about AD. Do any of you guys notice that with AD, it's more free, so the snapping points aren't as on point versus Ai? Or maybe Ai's snapping points are only so precise because you can only zoom in to a certain point while AD you can zoom in for ages, therefore, Ai snaps sooner to points. And AD assumes you to snap onto your precise point and assumes you'll zoom in farther for pixel perfection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 AD doesn't yet have a lot of the same snapping stuff that AI has. The handles, for example, don't seem to snap to anything much at all. Nodes, you can turn up their sensitivity to snapping in the Snapping Manager... > top slider. 8 is a little weak at high resolution on large screens. Try 16 or 24. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Do any of you guys notice that with AD, it's more free, so the snapping points aren't as on point versus Ai? btw this pun didn't go unnoticed. Quite good :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGen Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 That pun wasn't even intended. Running errands the whole day today. Will tweak with the lemniscates tonight. Couldn't download the photo you attached of the lemniscate sample with the color blocks in the other post you had. And thanks for the snapping manager tips. Will do that now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achim63 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I'm probably way too late with my answer, but just in case:Go to the character overview in you Mac's menu bar (you might have to switch it on in System preferences first), type "Infinity" into the search field, click on the first character in the "Unicode name" section and you'll get presented with all kinds of that sign (depending on which and how many fonts you have installed). Use the text tool in AD, double click the sign in the character overview to insert it. Then just convert to a curve if you want to further tweak it. Or just copy it from here and select your favourite font for it in AD: ∞ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniemcbride Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 It is never too late to share ;) Thanks Achim63! Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achim63 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Thanks, Ronnie! B.t.w.: looking forward to part 2 of your Pumpkin Tutorial - it's great! ... whoops, I just realized you only announced it somewhere ... never mind ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniemcbride Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I would love to take the credit on that fine tutorial, but unfortunately that not my work. That is the work of the great Cartoon Mike. ;) Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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