Maras Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Hello, what is the best way to draw shadows and lights in a vector only object? Currently, I am doing a lot of additional work (duplicating layers beneath it, drawing shapes and filling those) in order to achieve this. Ideally, I would like to draw custom fills like it is in Flash (Adobe Animate CC). Attached is an example from the game Kingdom Rush of what I would like to achieve. Can you give me some tips on how to shade efficiently in Affinity Designer? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Not sure what you're asking here exactly. Do you want soft shadows? Hard shadows? You can create soft shadows directly in the Effects panel ('outer shadow'), but I guess when you need hard shadows it's indeed a matter of copying and merge layers and give it a shadow color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maras Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 I want hard shadows like in the example picture I posted >> Draw outline first and then start colouring the picture. Making multiple layers takes quite a lot of time and results into much more complex SVG than needed MmmMaarten 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, Maras said: I want hard shadows like in the example picture I posted >> Draw outline first and then start colouring the picture. Making multiple layers takes quite a lot of time and results into much more complex SVG than needed I agree with you it would be pretty welcome to have a possibility to add a 'hard' shadow we can color ourselves. As you wrote it's way too much work to do that manually now. It would be pretty 'convenient' to have a feature like this to be used for flatstyle illustrations and designs too. But I would like the result to be vector graphics though (Right now, unfortunately, most if not all effects in that panel are raster-effects), otherwise I would never us it on svg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 19, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2019 Hi Maras, Welcome to the forums Unfortunately there's no such 'Flash-like fill' feature in Affinity when it comes to vector drawings, you'll have to duplicate/draw new vector lines to shade your drawings. You may find the following videos helpful, although he's using the iPad version, his techniques are universal! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQayLo09xcsHO2DdBxBYAQ Alfred 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maras Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Thank you, the guy is pretty amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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