v_kyr Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 On 11/9/2018 at 3:18 PM, Mithferion said: This gives me hope Gimme hope, Jo'anna !!! - Or as one says in German "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt". Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 3 hours ago, v_kyr said: Gimme hope, Jo'anna !!! - Or as one says in German "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt". Or in spanish: la esperanza muere al último. Best regards! v_kyr and Cuando 2 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernie-f Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 20 hours ago, v_kyr said: Gimme hope, Jo'anna !!! - Or as one says in German "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt". It can be so easy. Why Serif don't look at ??? It can be handled a better way? Or NO? In German: Macht es doch besser! Jetzt ist die Gelegenheit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 9 minutes ago, ernie-f said: Jetzt ist die Gelegenheit! Or, as we say in English, carpe diem! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 'Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. There never was much hope, he answered. Just a fool's hope, as I have been told.' Quote "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...
ABD Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 While shape builder is an important thing for me, the work around using divide and then combining is also in dire need of rework. Too many junk points or curves. That issue has been since years. I wish they fix it ASAP. It's becoming increasingly frustrating to keep on waiting. My bet is it's going to take at least beyond 2020 to fix them (Very happy to be proven wrong). My reason is right now they are busy with publisher then they will be busy with DAM tool in 2020. Given those are their priorities (my opinion btw), I highly doubt we'll see the Boolean issues fixed before this decade. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 19 minutes ago, pmabdullah87 said: then they will be busy with DAM tool This assumption you draw from what? On another thread, the moderator said that they are not currently working on DAM (unfortunately). ABD 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABD Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 50 minutes ago, Pšenda said: On another thread, the moderator said that they are not currently working on DAM (unfortunately). Thanks for pointing out. I would like them to fix the current plaguing issues first before working on new apps. But nonetheless a DAM would be a great addition to the suite which would make the workflow much better 51 minutes ago, Pšenda said: This assumption you draw from what I read it in the forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Well, here is what I can say from what I’ve read: - Matt Priestley will be working on the issues present in boolean operations and expand strokes. - Matt is not part of the Publisher or the DAM team. - Matt and Ashley Hewson have talked about the DAM application, and in fact, it’d be among us at some point of 2020. Also, yeah, to me, the logical step is to fix the issues with boolean operations before making a Shape Builder Tool. Best regards! EDIT: Added some links to support what I just wrote. Notice that some of the links have their own context, so among the lines you can read what I am refering to. ABD and Alfred 1 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABD Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 1 hour ago, Mithferion said: Well, here is what I can say from what I’ve read: - Matt Priestley will be working on the issues present in boolean operations and expand strokes. - Matt is not part of the Publisher or the DAM team. - Matt and Ashley Hewson have talked about the DAM application, and in fact, it’d be among us at some point of 2020. Also, yeah, to me, the logical step is to fix the issues with boolean operations before making a Shape Builder Tool. Best regards! EDIT: Added some links to support what I just wrote. Notice that some of the links have their own context, so among the lines you can read what I am refering to. @MithferionThanks a lot. I mostly use forums in my mobile and hence there are some challenges in linking them unlike the ease / familiarity of a desktop. 1 hour ago, Mithferion said: Also, yeah, to me, the logical step is to fix the issues with boolean operations before making a Shape Builder Tool. Agreed. Mithferion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Nguyen Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 1/24/2018 at 3:59 PM, ChristAlix said: [AD] Shape Builder Tool as in Autodesk Inventor, I like it, a great tool! definitely not the best example of to why AD needs a shape builder tool. this was as simple as "add"ing the shapes together. .: NICKY G. :. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.: NICKY G. :. Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 On 11/9/2018 at 3:18 PM, Mithferion said: I didn't notice until today that DrawPlus had a Shape Builder Tool. This gives me hope. Best regards! hi I just found out about the existence of DrawPlus x8 !!! What is Drawplus x8 and what does it have to do with Affinity Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, .: NICKY G. :. said: hi I just found out about the existence of DrawPlus x8 !!! What is Drawplus x8 and what does it have to do with Affinity Designer? It is part of the older line of Serif products, which are no longer being developed. It has nothing to do with any of the Serif Affinity products. .: NICKY G. :. 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, .: NICKY G. :. said: What is Drawplus x8 and what does it have to do with Affinity Designer? Like Affinity Designer, DrawPlus X8 is a hybrid vector/raster drawing application produced by Serif. Unlike AD, it’s for Windows only — and as Walt says, it’s no longer being developed (but it’s still available to purchase as a ‘legacy’ application). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 What they said. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cailum Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Hey Affinity, I love using your software and with each update it's getting better and better. Really looking forward to Publisher dropping shortly as well which will have no doubt focused on all of your attention. I use Designer predominately and there are two tools that I know a lot of people would benefit from. I was wondering if they might be in future plans and if there is any time scale? 1) Shape Builder - i know designer already features similar tools but it would be awesome to have a dedicated tool similar to illustrator which would really help with productivity and accuracy. This thread dates back to 2015 so fingers crossed aha! 2) Expand Strokes to Shapes - This would be so useful in so many different ways. Many thanks, Cailum Brian D, velarde, .: NICKY G. :. and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 On 6/5/2019 at 8:31 AM, Cailum said: 1) Shape Builder - i know designer already features similar tools but it would be awesome to have a dedicated tool similar to illustrator which would really help with productivity and accuracy. This thread dates back to 2015 so fingers crossed aha! As they said on ther official account: On 6/5/2019 at 8:31 AM, Cailum said: 2) Expand Strokes to Shapes - This would be so useful in so many different ways. Expand stroke is available in DEsigner, is that what you are refering to? Also, it needs to be improved sin with smalls sizes, the resultas are less than acceptable. Best regards! Wiredframe 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlower8 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 I would like to add to this debate and also request this feature. OR if not this feature then at least have the boolean tools work properly. For me, there are 4 glaringly bad issues with the current Affinity Designer set up which I will try to explain. 1) When cutting different shapes from each other - if the shapes are quite complex, Affinity adds literally hundreds of nodes to the shape. It even does it if the shape is relatively simple. See screenshots. 2) When trying to select these completely pointless nodes I am given a square shape selector to highlight and select. It makes it extremely fiddly if I want to delete those nodes in a confined space where I don't want to delete other nodes from other shapes. 3) With these hundreds of nodes it makes any shape really heavy in processing power. It slows down the app significantly and in my case repeatedly crashed. Worse, however, is when you want to continue to cut out shapes from each other if one of those shapes has lots of nodes it simply refuses to work. Instead of the shapes cutting away or even adding together they both simply disappear. Affinity just can't handle it. Again in my case, it was so bad I had to manually redraw complex shapes from scratch or start over. Or on the shape with tons of nodes I had to manually delete them until Affinity was able to process the boolean command again. 4) When using circles and the golden ration to design (as an example) the divide boolean is pretty much the only tool you can use. However, what happens is it adds hundreds of tiny spec layers that in many cases are so small they offer absolutely no relevance. The other day I was making a logo using about 10 inter lapping circles. I selected them all to divide in the hope I could simply manually add the shapes I wanted with the add boolean. However, I ended up with over 400 layers. Good luck trying to select which shape/layer goes together and good luck trying to manually select the shapes with a square (fixed) selector. These are my thoughts. Maybe the shape builder tool is not necessarily needed. Personally, I think it would improve Affinity and the workflow significantly. However, I am a big advocate for zero bloating of the tool. BUT the current boolean tools in my mind do not work, especially when getting into complex shapes and/or patterns. Which ultimately is what Affinity Designer should be handling. I love Affinity and I appreciate the work you are doing. jstnhllmn and Jowday 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 4, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 4, 2019 Hi davidlower8, Thank you for your feedback. We are aware of all those issues (except point 2 see below). The boolean operations code must be revised/be more robust and we do intend review it for an upcoming version. Regarding selecting nodes (point 2) you have two additional ways to select them: - press and hold alt then click and drag to use lasso node selection - press and hold alt then click as much times as needed to use polygon node selection Cuando 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlower8 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 Hi @MEB, Thanks for the feedback. And thank you for being honest. That is a very nice touch. I did not know about the lasso ability. That will certainly help. Thank you for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 1 hour ago, davidlower8 said: I did not know about the lasso ability See Status bar - sometimes there is useful information :-) Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankstallone Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 :: cough cough :: Happy New Year! 1.8 didn't include a shape builder tool, did it? 😇 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, frankstallone said: 1.8 didn't include a shape builder tool, did it? 😇 No. d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
affinityfan Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 + 1 for shape builder tool. Please Shape builder is an so important thing for me DaveRx and .: NICKY G. :. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillywilson Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) Just got this, I love it but yes +1 for a shape builder tool, it is the only thing I see missing. I have to keep popping open Illustrator and saving out svg's Edited March 27, 2020 by chillywilson affinityfan and DaveRx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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