Perspective grid feature request for AD

[TS Monk]

Thank you for creating what appears to be a viable competitor to Adobe CC!

 

I've been working in Illustrator since it was released in 1988 and am an advanced user who is disgusted with Adobe's decision to stop selling their products directly to customers as well as their horrible reputation for customer support. I have not upgraded my iMac OS beyond version 10.6.8 because my CS4 home Illustrator version will not run on any subsequent OS. However, when forced to upgrade my OS, I would like to find an alternative to Adobe. I'm hoping I can hang on in this state using my old software until AD has improved and expanded; I can't buy it yet because it requires an OS that will not work with Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign CS4.

 

Do you have or are you planning to add any of these features to AD?

1. A perspective grid tool or panel that makes it possible to set up customized vanishing points and a horizon line on the artboard, and then add shapes that will conform/snap to the grid. Illustrator took forever to add it (to the CS5 version, which I used at work), and it really streamlined drawing and composition layout.
2. The ability to create single 3D shapes from 2D shapes, particularly the ability to draw half an object (i.e., a bottle), then revolve it through the 3D Effects menu to create the full bottle, which can also be rotated in space on x, y, and z axes.
3. Something similar to the Object > Envelope Distort feature of AI, which also allows you to distort pattern fills in the object.
4. Object blends that provide options for how many inbetweens are created between two or more object/color blends.

I use these four features in AI a great deal, along with the basic shapes, brush, pen, pencil, eyedropper and type tools. I would like to buy an affordable, reliable product that is backed by good customer support; it sounds like your company is doing an excellent job so far, but I didn't see any of the above features mentioned.

 

I am not looking forward to having to relearn skills it took me years to acquire, but if you continue listening to your customers and expanding Affinity programs, I will do it gladly rather than hitch a ride on Adobe's cloud. I'm cheering you on and wishing you much success in converting Adobe users to Affinity users through elegant programming and responsive customer support.

 

Thank you!

 

 

[A_B_C]

This would be great …  :)

[Hokusai]

I too would like to put in a +1 for this as well! It isn't something that is crucial for me but it is nice to have and very useful at times. 

[Ben]

I have already put some thought into perspective guides and vanishing points.  However, we are not going to implement any true 3D style features.  Anything we do add will only allow you to create 2D shapes, but with perspective.  Once created, they will still be 2D outlines and not have any real 3D properties.  Once we have distortion tools, I may see how they can be augmented into perspective guides to facilitate scaling with perspective, but I'm making no promises as yet.

 

The new grids feature already allows for parallel perspective grids for isometric, etc.