Mark Oehlschlager Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 I understand that AF Designer's node Transform Mode allows one to select the bottom two nodes of a simple rectangle and distort the shape to suggest 1-point perspective (see illustration below), but this does not appear to work for circles and other complex shapes. In Adobe Illustrator, one can use the Transform tool plus keyboard modifiers to transform any shape and related nodes into 1-point perspective. (See the video below, and note how the left and right nodes of the circle and their control handles are repositioned and redirected to achieve correct perspective for the shape.) Am I missing something in AF Designer? Is it actually possible to transform any vector shape in perspective? Perspective Transform.mov Martigny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Holding the command key in transform node resizes around the center. All it is doing is scaling the group of selected nodes while keeping them centered above the other ones. Circles transformed to curves have four points: top, bottom, left and right. What nodes would you select in order to get that effect? Even if you add nodes, you are still basically manipulating a circle, and scaling those nodes won't have the same effect that scaling the nodes of a rectangle does. I believe for what you are trying to do you would need mesh distortion, which is not currently available in Affinity Designer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martigny Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Designer really needs this tool and also the envelope tool (like in DrawPlus). I use these a lot for text. Please Affinity? GRH and Jowday 2 iMac: iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017) - 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 - 8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 - Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB Windows: Nvidia GTX 960m 4k UHD 2gb ram video (Windows 10 Pro) - Laptop screen (resolution 3840x2160 magnified 300%) 2nd Monitor: Phillips 226E9Q HD 1920 x 1080 (125%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 It is on the roadmap, so it will be coming, we just don't know when (other than that it will be sometime before version 2.0): Martigny and Jowday 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martigny Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 2 hours ago, fde101 said: It is on the roadmap, so it will be coming, we just don't know when (other than that it will be sometime before version 2.0): Thank you for that GRH 1 iMac: iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017) - 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 - 8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 - Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB Windows: Nvidia GTX 960m 4k UHD 2gb ram video (Windows 10 Pro) - Laptop screen (resolution 3840x2160 magnified 300%) 2nd Monitor: Phillips 226E9Q HD 1920 x 1080 (125%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalVisuals Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 I try to shape text, but can't find a solution for this in Designer? Windows 11 (Home)-build: 23H2- build 22631.2715 - 64 bits. 11e generatie Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K @ 32,60GHz. Ram: 80 GB DDR4 -3200 Mhz- 34" breedbeeld Gpu: Geforce 3060 -12GB OC-studiodriver: 537-58 - XP-Pen star03 - mastodon.nl /@digitalvisuals - website: digitalvisuals.nl Affinity Photo2 - Designer 1.10- Publisher 1.10 - ArtRage 6 - Lumina Aurora - ArtRage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2019 Hi studio97, Currently there aren't (vector) perspective nor mesh warp distortion tools in Designer. Only Affinity Photo have them (raster based distortion tools, that is). A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, studio97 said: I try to shape text, but can't find a solution for this in Designer? If you need a solution for this while waiting for this to show up in Designer and you do not already have a program that will do it, you might want to check out Art Text - it is inexpensive and you can use it to shape text then save the output as a (raster) image that you can then bring into the Affinity products. https://text.design/art-text/ Note that link is for the Mac version - I think an older version of it (version 2 as opposed to 3) is available for Windows if you search around that site for it a bit. That said, it will obviously be much nicer when we can do these things from right inside of Affinity Designer, but if you need something in the interim, that is one potential option that is out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalVisuals Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, MEB said: Hi studio97, Currently there aren't (vector) perspective nor mesh warp distortion tools in Designer. Only Affinity Photo have them (raster based distortion tools, that is). Will this come, because its a basic need for a designer.? Windows 11 (Home)-build: 23H2- build 22631.2715 - 64 bits. 11e generatie Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K @ 32,60GHz. Ram: 80 GB DDR4 -3200 Mhz- 34" breedbeeld Gpu: Geforce 3060 -12GB OC-studiodriver: 537-58 - XP-Pen star03 - mastodon.nl /@digitalvisuals - website: digitalvisuals.nl Affinity Photo2 - Designer 1.10- Publisher 1.10 - ArtRage 6 - Lumina Aurora - ArtRage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2019 Hi Studio 97, The mesh warp distortion tool is already on Designer's roadmap. I have no info about a perspective distortion tool. Jowday, 10on12, Martigny and 1 other 2 1 1 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jowday Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 1 hour ago, albertkinng said: this is a must Get it where it is for what it costs. "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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