4. Handles affecting both sides of node equally in a not good way

Handles affecting both sides of node equally in a not good way


  • A couple of things I noticed when I was using the pen tool to trace an object; when I went back to adjust the handles on a point, in VS, it would equally affect both sides of the node. I went over to Affinity to see how it handled nodes like that and it affects mostly the one side.
    If I had my druthers, handle adjustment would behave more like how Affinity offers. Not that I want VS to be just like Affinity, but in this case, the way both sides were equally affected meant I was getting it mostly set on one side of the node, going to adjust the other side and seeing my previous work and adjustments wildly changed to match my current edit

    Handle effects in Affinity: https://recordit.co/ZbKfSnteZB

    Handle effects in VS: https://recordit.co/eYyQGuQxAY

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  • OK in further testing - when I grab an existing line and just adjust the curve by pushing or pulling it, that allows me to adjust one side of the node without drastically affecting the other. My question is, how do I do what I am here, on a line like in the previous video?

    https://recordit.co/A61JUfqOwy

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  • J

    View Link. Not sure this is what you were looking for.
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    @Boldline Yes, so the node here seems to be in symmetric mode (the 3rd button will be highlighted in the context bar).
    symmetric mode is similar to smooth mode, but the two sides are of equal length.
    convert the node to smooth mode (2nd button in the context bar).

    In VS there is cusp, smooth and symmetric modes for nodes.

    In the 3rd video, the two nodes seem to be in cusp mode.

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  • OK I will play around with those setting more - thank you @Jae and @vectoradmin

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